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  • Data visualization,  India

    Tracking India’s Progress on Addressing Malnutrition: What Will it Take?

    June 10, 2020

    In collaboration with Partnerships and Opportunities to Strengthen and Harmonize Actions for Nutrition in India (POSHAN), DataDENT co-funded an activity identifying an indicator list and respective data availability for evidence-based interventions, determinants, and outcomes aligned with the POSHAN Abhiyaan framework. A blog post on this work is available here. A policy note summarizing findings can be viewed here.

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  • Data collection,  Data for Nutrition,  Data visualization

    Webinar Round Up: Measuring food security and nutrition during COVID-19

    May 22, 2020

    The COVID-19 pandemic has had a significant impact on food security and nutrition. Organizations and initiatives have shared webinars, blogs, and additional resources to help governments, donors, program implementors, and other stakeholders on how to monitor and assess how COVID-19 threatens food systems and nutritional status of populations. Below is a list of webinars on measuring food security and nutrition…

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  • Data visualization,  India

    How are nutrition data visualization tools (DVTs) in India supporting decision-makers?

    May 18, 2020

    As the COVID-19 pandemic unfolds, the increasing demand and supply of data has spawned a breadth of data visualization tools (DVTs). Not surprisingly, we are witnessing an outpour of COVID-19 DVTs in India, including the Coronavirus India Dashboard and India COVID-19 tracker, among others. In both nutrition and the COVID-19 response, it is critical that DVTs are designed for their…

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    Manita Jangid (IFPRI), Yashodhara Rana (R4D), Laura Becker (R4D), Tricia Aung (JHSPH) 3 Comments
  • Data for Nutrition

    Data for Nutrition Public Launch

    March 12, 2020

    Over the past several months, DataDENT has been coordinating the Data for Nutrition (DfN) Community of Practice—a free, online platform that provides members with opportunities to share knowledge, experience, and questions relevant to strengthening the nutrition data value chain at all levels for the purpose of achieving better nutritional outcomes in low- and middle-income countries. Today, we are excited to…

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  • Data visualization

    Visualizing nutrition data with Tableau Public

    March 9, 2020

    “Making better figures: visualising data for different audiences” skills building session from the Transform Nutrition West Africa Together for Nutrition West African Data Forum February 2020 in Senegal Tableau is a popular data visualization program used by individuals in diverse fields. There are several high-profile examples of Tableau used to visualize nutrition data such as UNICEF/WHO/World Bank’s Joint Child Malnutrition…

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  • Data for Nutrition,  Data value chain

    Data for Nutrition webinar – New data for nutrition: Updates to the Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS)-8 Questionnaires

    January 16, 2020

    Over the past several months, DataDENT has been facilitating the launch of the Data for Nutrition (DfN) Community of Practice. DfN provides community members with opportunities to share knowledge, experience, evidence, and questions related to how we can strengthen the nutrition data value chain at all levels—global, regional, national, sub-national, institutional. Currently in a soft launch phase, DfN hosted its…

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  • Data value chain

    Has the revolution arrived? Why 2020 is a crucial year for nutrition data

    January 16, 2020

    Last month, DataDENT authored a guest blog post for the Global Nutrition Report highlighting the role of nutrition data to accelerate equitable progress towards reducing malnutrition. Read our article here!

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  • Data visualization,  Survey data

    2019 DataDENT Highlights

    December 20, 2019

    2019 was an exciting year for DataDENT with milestones addressing challenges across the nutrition data value chain. Here we revisit our work highlighted through our top blog posts from this past year and look ahead at what is to come in 2020. New Demographic and Health Survey (DHS) nutrition data The DHS Program accepted recommendations for changes to the core…

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  • Data value chain,  Survey data

    The Case of the Missing Data

    December 2, 2019

    The Global Nutrition Report (GNR) is one of the most widely used sources of nutrition data. The GNR reports on progress against global nutrition targets in 194 countries. In October 2019, GNR launched updated Country Nutrition Profiles. Note: In May 2020, GNR launched the 2020 report. The list of “no data” countries in the 2020 report matches the list shared in…

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    Tricia Aung 1 Comment
  • Advocacy,  Data collection,  Demographic and Health Surveys,  Survey data

    Overview of new nutrition questions in the Demographic and Health Survey (DHS) core questionnaires

    October 11, 2019

    The Demographic and Health Survey (DHS) Program just released the new DHS model questionnaires for round 8 (2018-2023). We previously shared on the blog how DHS and the Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey (MICS) are main sources of nationally-representative maternal, newborn, child health, and nutrition data. The four DHS core questionnaires (household, woman, man, and biomarker) will be used globally, and…

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