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What can the United States Learn from the Scaling Up Nutrition (SUN) Movement? Examining Country Leadership in Zambia, Kenya and Bangladesh
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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
Education
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Nutrition
Water and Sanitation
Children and the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami: evaluation of UNICEF’s response in Indonesia, Sri Lanka and Maldives (2005-2008) – overall synthesis report
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May 24, 2016

This report is a summary of an extensive evaluation undertaken by the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) of its response to the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami. It focuses on Indonesia, Sri Lanka and Maldives — countries that had the most serious damage and received 84 per cent of UNICEF tsunami country-level funds. The evaluation mainly… Read more

child and maternal nutrition, Child health, Indonesia, Maldives, Natural Disasters, Sri Lanka, WASH
Gender
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Effective behaviour change interventions
Helpdesk Report
April 28, 2016

This helpdesk provides a rapid analysis on the existing evidence related to effective behaviour change interventions. It has a particular focus on where interventions are related to hygiene and sanitation, nutrition, gender based violence, indoor air pollution, family planning adoption, unsafe sex, motor vehicle driving. The geographic focus is Malawi, but where necessary it draws… Read more

family planning adoption, gender-based violence, hygiene and sanitation, indoor air pollution, motor vehicle driving, Nutrition, unsafe sex
Education
Health
Nutrition
Social development and human development
Document Library
November 3, 2015

This Topic Guide aims to answer the question ‘What is the interaction between social development issues and human development outcomes?’ An individual’s right to lead a long and healthy life, to be educated and to enjoy a decent standard of living cannot be realised without addressing social development issues. This is because these issues determine… Read more

Human Development, social development
Education
Health
Nutrition
Water and Sanitation
Evidence on ECD approaches in Malawi
Helpdesk Report
October 30, 2015

This rapid review looks at the evidence on Early Childhood Development (ECD) models (including integrated approaches) in Malawi and in the Sub-Saharan African region, looking at the impact on child development and learning. Most of the evidence from Malawi focuses on Community Based Childcare Centres (CBCC) which are the main centre based model for ECD… Read more

ECD, Malawi, volunteers, WASH
Health
Nutrition
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Progress on Sanitation and Drinking Water – 2015 update and MDG assessment
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July 1, 2015

Looking back on 25 years of water, sanitation and hygiene monitoring, the report  provides a comprehensive assessment of progress since 1990.  The MDG target for drinking water was achieved in 2010 but the world has missed the sanitation target by almost 700 million people. In 2015, 663 million people still lack improved drinking water sources,… Read more

WASH
Water and Sanitation
A cluster‐randomized controlled trial evaluating the effect of a hand‐ washing‐promotion programme in Chinese primary schools
Document Library
June 4, 2015

Intensive handwashing promotion can reduce diarrheal and respiratory disease incidence. To determine whether less intensive, more scalable interventions can improve health, we evaluated a school-based handwashing program. We randomized 87 Chinese schools to usual practices: standard intervention (handwashing program) or expanded intervention (handwashing program, soap for school sinks, and peer hygiene monitors). We compared student… Read more

handwashing, School
Nutrition
Reframing Undernutrition: Faecally-Transmitted Infections and the 5 As
Document Library
January 26, 2015

The dominant nutrition discourse concerns access to adequate food and its quality. It now includes food security, food rights and justice, governance and agriculture. Despite many initiatives to assure food access, and growing economies, high levels of undernutrition persist in much of Asia. It is increasingly suggested that much of this ‘Asian enigma’ can now… Read more

Nutrition
Nutritional Status of Women and Children
Document Library
January 13, 2015

In the past few years, new evidence has shown that investments in nutrition encourage healthy growth of children, nations, and economies. Optimal nutrition from the start of a woman’s pregnancy to her child’s second birthday 1,000 days later, provides an optimal opportunity to influence cognitive development and growth and improve chances for a successful future. Furthermore, through the global… Read more

Nutrition
Nutrition interventions in developing and fragile contexts with a focus on community interventions and Yemen
Helpdesk Report
October 2, 2014

This was an extensive query to tackle in 3 days. The result is an annotated bibliography covering a selection of key papers identified through a rapid search on the different nutrition interventions. Section 2 includes a number of resources on community-based management with evaluations finding it to be cost effective. Sections 3-5 are on breastfeeding,… Read more

fragile states, nutrition interventions, Yemen
Education
Health
Nutrition
Water and Sanitation
Revealed preference for open defecation: Evidence from a new survey in rural north India
Document Library
June 30, 2014

Despite economic growth, government latrine construction, and increasing recognition among policy-makers that it constitutes a health and human capital crisis, open defecation remains stubbornly widespread in rural India. Indeed, 67% of rural Indian households in the 2011 census reported defecating in the open. We present evidence from new survey data collected in villages in five… Read more

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