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  • Data value chain,  Data visualization

    Purpose-driven design: India’s District Nutrition Profiles

    October 6, 2022

    A critical component of the nutrition data value chain is the link between data translation and decision making. Tools like profiles, scorecards, and dashboards can present data in a way that can be easily interpreted and persuasive in conveying key messages. However, to be effective, these tools must have a clear purpose and reflect the needs and preferences of their…

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    Sara Shapleigh (IFPRI) No Comments
  • Advocacy,  Data for Nutrition,  Data value chain,  Data visualization

    More to come: Taking stock of DataDENT’s 2021 achievements and 2022 plans

    January 7, 2022

    Happy New Year to much of the world! While there are bigger headlines dominating our news feeds, the start of 2022 signals that we are in the final stretch in DataDENT’s first 5-year funding cycle. DataDENT global and country partners have been hard at work and also celebrating the fruits of multiple years of learning and engagement. This post reviews…

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    Rebecca Heidkamp (JHSPH) No Comments
  • Advocacy,  Data for Nutrition,  Data value chain

    Signs of progress: 2021 has more data for global targets and more commitment to data

    December 6, 2021

    The 2021 Global Nutrition Report (GNR) was released in late November as part of the leadup to this week’s Nutrition for Growth event hosted by the Government of Japan. The report’s headlines were not exactly a cause for celebration. The world remains off-course to meet five of the six World Health Assembly maternal, infant, and young child nutrition (MIYCN) targets…

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    Rebecca Heidkamp (JHSPH) No Comments
  • Advocacy,  Data value chain

    How can N4G 2021 commitments strengthen the nutrition data value chain?

    September 25, 2021

    On 7-8 December 2021, the Government of Japan will host the second Nutrition for Growth (N4G) Summit. N4G is a high-profile advocacy event that calls on governments, development partners, and the private sector to make public commitments to actions that will accelerate progress to the World Health Assembly 2025 Nutrition Targets and 2030 Sustainable Development Goals. The event is strategically…

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    Rebecca Heidkamp (JHSPH) 1 Comment
  • Advocacy,  Data value chain

    Advancing the quality of care measurement agenda for nutrition

    August 16, 2021

    Much of DataDENT’s work has focused in on improving the measurement of nutrition intervention coverage. We have worked to develop new coverage indicators for Maternal, Infant, and Young Child Nutrition (MIYCN) counseling and Nutrition Sensitive Social Protection, advocated for uptake of additional coverage indicators in the Demographic and Health Survey (DHS)-8 core questionnaire and national surveys in Nigeria, India and…

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    Rebecca Heidkamp (JHSPH) No Comments
  • Data collection,  Data value chain,  Survey data

    Launch of the Compendium of Nutrition Intervention Coverage Indicators & Questions for Household Surveys

    July 20, 2021

    We are thrilled to launch the Compendium of Nutrition Intervention Coverage Indicators & Questions for Household Surveys today! The Compendium is a technical resource that can help national and subnational stakeholders fill information gaps around who is receiving nutrition interventions through health systems. Building on a set of indicators proposed in “Measuring the coverage of nutrition interventions along the continuum…

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    Tricia Aung (JHSPH), Rebecca Heidkamp (JHSPH) No Comments
  • Data collection,  Data value chain,  Routine data,  Survey data

    Let’s make a plan!

    June 30, 2021

    Last month the Micronutrient Forum (MNF) released a Micronutrient Data Generation Initiative Strategic Plan—a comprehensive strategy for how to fill long-standing gaps in data on the prevalence of micronutrient deficiencies across low- and middle-income countries.  The strategy is noteworthy on multiple levels, but in particular for its theory of change which describes the steps and enabling factors required to achieve…

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    Rebecca Heidkamp (JHSPH) No Comments
  • Advocacy,  Data value chain

    Advancing the data and accountability agenda for maternal and child undernutrition

    March 2, 2021

    On International Women’s Day, 8 March 2021, a Lancet series on Maternal and Child Undernutrition (MCUN) Progress was launched as part of the Nutrition Year of Action—a year-long effort to drive momentum on tackling malnutrition ahead of the 2021 Nutrition for Growth Summit. The goal of the series is to accelerate progress towards reaching the 2025 World Health Assembly nutrition targets and…

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    Rebecca Heidkamp (JHSPH), Riley Auer (JHSPH) 1 Comment
  • Data value chain,  Survey data

    What data do nutrition stakeholders use and how can we better meet their needs?

    January 28, 2021

    The global nutrition community is remarkably diverse: its stakeholders include people working in vastly different fields, from health to agriculture, to water and sanitation and in roles ranging from program management to policy development to issue-based advocacy. Some work for small community-based organizations while others work for national governments, or huge multilateral or UN organizations with a global focus. It’s logical…

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    Andrew Thorne-Lyman (JHU), Rebecca Heidkamp (JHU) No Comments
  • Data collection,  Data value chain,  India

    Tracking India’s Progress on Addressing Malnutrition and Enhancing the Use of Data to Improve Programs

    January 8, 2021

    In collaboration with Partnerships and Opportunities to Strengthen and Harmonize Actions for Nutrition in India (POSHAN), NITI Aayog, and ID Insight, DataDENT developed a joint report addressing considerations for improving the availability and use of data to improve nutrition programs in India. The report shares a comprehensive indicator framework aligned with India’s National Nutrition Mission, POSHAN Abhiyaan, and describes a theory…

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