Women’s self-help groups (SHG) are fast emerging as an ideal platform to effect change in health and nutrition behaviors. The unique design of group-based interventions presents opportunities to simultaneously tackle multiple basic, underlying and immediate causes of malnutrition laid out in the UNICEF Conceptual Framework of Malnutrition. As forums of adult women, they directly reach […]
POSHAN Delivering for Nutrition 2016: Session on Interventions That Improve Service Coverage and Frontline Workers’ Performance
The seventh session of POSHAN’s implementation research conference took participants to the frontlines of service delivery, by presenting evidence on the drivers of health and nutrition service use and some innovative interventions (information and communication technology and performance-based incentives) used to improve service coverage and frontline workers’ performance. First, Dr. Sunny Kim, IFPRI, presented on […]
POSHAN Delivering for Nutrition 2016: Session on India’s Food Supplementation Programs
The Supplementary Nutrition Program (SNP) component of the Integrated Child Development Scheme (ICDS) and the mid-day meal scheme are two of the key food supplementation programs offered by the Government of India. The SNP provides a daily snack and hot cooked meal for 3–6-year-old children at the anganwadi centre and take home ration (THR) for […]
Special Event: Showcasing MAP Egypt
By Hagar ElDidi, Jose Luis Figueroa and Mariam Raouf MAP Egypt: A tool for improving policy and investment decisions Monitoring the progress of agricultural projects is key for effective policy design and decision making. What types of agricultural projects are currently underway in Egypt? Where are they? Who is funding them? How many people are […]
POSHAN Delivering for Nutrition 2016: Session on Nutrition Financing
India carries an exceptionally high proportion of the global burden of undernutrition and is currently not on track to meet the World Health Assembly targets for stunting and anemia reduction. There is therefore an urgent need to invest in nutrition, in India. With this in mind, POSHAN’s implementation research conference “Delivering for Nutrition in India: […]
