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All resources on nutrition and development including materials on childhood nutrition; agriculture; and financing nutrition.
Nutrition
Market Assessment of Local Production of Ready to Use Therapeutic and Supplementary Foods (RUTFs and RUSFs)
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February 9, 2022

The UK Foreign Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) awarded Oxford Policy Management a contract to undertake a feasibility study on the local production of Ready to Use Therapeutic Food (RUTF) and/or Ready to Use Supplementary Food (RUSF) in Zambia. The feasibility study has two specific milestones: initial analysis of the Zambian RUTF and RUSF market… Read more

food security, Malnutrition
Education
Gender
Health
Nutrition
Social Protection
Water and Sanitation
The Secondary Impacts of COVID-19 on Women and Girls in Sub-Saharan Africa
Document Library
July 17, 2020

This rapid review focuses on identifying evidence on the secondary impacts of COVID-19 on women and girls in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). It aims to enable a greater understanding of the unique circumstances of women and girls in the region, which could assist with the provision of effective support throughout the COVID-19 crisis and its aftermath…. Read more

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Nutrition
Empowerment, Voice and Accountability for Better Health and Nutrition (EVA-BHN) Assessment: Executive Summary
Assignment
May 4, 2018

EVA-BHN is an £18.86m health voice and accountability programme working at community, district and province level in Punjab and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) since February 2014. It is part of DFID’s Provincial Health and Nutrition Programme (PHNP) to support delivery of an Essential Health Services Package (EHSP) by the Governments of Punjab and KP. This assessment… Read more

essential health services, EVA-BHN, health and nutrition outcomes, independent assessment
Health
Nutrition
Empowerment, Voice and Accountability for Better Health and Nutrition (EVA-BHN) – Independent Assessment
Assignment
April 13, 2018

This assessment provides an external and critical view of the EVA-BHN programme. It provides learning for improving programme effectiveness over the remaining 16 months, for informing the design of future DFID health programme(s) in Pakistan, and for communicating with stakeholders. The assessment was conducted in October, November, and December 2017 through a desk review of… Read more

essential health services, EVA-BHN, health and nutrition outcomes, independent assessment
Health
Nutrition
Humanitarian interventions for food/nutrition support in Ethiopia
Helpdesk Report
January 22, 2018

There are many evidence gaps in the delivery of humanitarian food/nutrition aid. Evaluation of the relative cost‐effectiveness of dietary response projects is confounded by the fact that different projects can have different objectives (USAID, 2015). Ethiopia has made progress in meeting emergency needs, including through the Government of Ethiopia-led Productive Safety Net Programme (PSNP), which… Read more

Children and Youth, Development, Health, humanitarian, Nutrition
Nutrition
What works to improve nutrition in northern Nigeria?
Blog
December 13, 2017

With a strong focus on learning and continuous engagement with Nigerian policy-makers, the Operations Research and Impact Evaluation (ORIE) project, led by Oxford Policy Management, was successfully completed in August 2017. ORIE has contributed for the past five years to inform nutrition research and the policy debates in Nigeria and beyond. ORIE provided operations research, impact evaluations,… Read more

Nutrition
Food market cross-border trade in Africa
Helpdesk Report
October 2, 2017

This rapid literature review assesses the evidence on the benefits of business being allowed to operate across borders within Africa for farmers; consumers; national economies, and donors. The evidence for promoting effective trade and access of food across borders within Africa is optimistic. Data for this report was taken from available for supra-national and regional… Read more

agriculture, Nutrition
Nutrition
Water and Sanitation
What can the United States Learn from the Scaling Up Nutrition (SUN) Movement? Examining Country Leadership in Zambia, Kenya and Bangladesh
Document Library
September 18, 2017

Country-led political and financial commitments to nutrition goals are widely recognized as critical to reducing malnutrition at scale. This report seeks to examine the relationship between country-level nutrition policy, implementation leadership, donor support and coordination, and nutrition outcomes at a national or subnational level. The analysis focuses on reducing the prevalence of stunting in countries… Read more

Malnutrition, Nutrition Policy, Scaling-Up Nutrition
Nutrition
Integrated Evaluation Report of the WINNN Programme: ORIE
Assignment
August 2, 2017

ORIE research on WINNN consisted of operations research, a mixed-methods impact evaluation, economic evaluation, and gender analysis which were conducted over a period of five years. This report integrates findings from this research to provide a high-level summary of WINNN’s achievements along with an overview of the key messages and recommendations that emerge from research… Read more

Nutrition
Strengthening nutrition sector governance: Lessons from the WINNN programme
Assignment
August 1, 2017

This brief is produced by the Operations Research and Impact Evaluation (ORIE) project, led by Oxford Policy Management (OPM), and it summarises the learning about strengthening nutrition sector governance from the Working to Improve Nutrition in Northern Nigeria (WINNN) programme implemented in five states in northern Nigeria (Jigawa, Katsina, Kebbi, Zamfara and Yobe). Key messages… Read more

Nutrition
Gender barriers to nutrition services: Lessons from the WINNN programme
Assignment
August 1, 2017

This brief is produced by the Operations Research and Impact Evaluation (ORIE) project, led by Oxford Policy Management (OPM), and it summarises the learning from the Working to Improve Nutrition in Northern Nigeria (WINNN) programme, a programme implemented in five states in northern Nigeria (Jigawa, Katsina, Kebbi, Zamfara and Yobe). Gender roles and relations can… Read more

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