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  • Data value chain,  Data visualization,  Survey data

    Similar but not the same: The challenge of comparing indicators across nutrition data tools

    August 15, 2019

    Nursing mothers wait outside the antenatal unit at Orolodo primary health centre before the start of a family planning visibility parade in Omuaran township in Nigeria’s central state of Kwara. © 2012 Akintunde Akinleye/NURHI, Courtesy of Photoshare High-quality nutrition data is critical for country stakeholders, advocates, funders, and many others to assess needs, measure progress, and ultimately make decisions to…

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    Laura Becker, Renee Manorat, Kyle Borces (Results for Development); Audrey Buckland, Rebecca Heidkamp (Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health) No Comments
  • Data collection,  Data value chain,  Fortification

    Updated guidance on measuring fortification coverage

    August 9, 2019

    The Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN) has released new guidance on measuring coverage of food fortification. The Fortification Assessment Coverage Toolkit (FACT) provides standardized tools to collect, analyze and synthesize data on quality, coverage, and consumption of fortified foods in different countries and contexts. FACT also provides guidance on survey design and use in evaluation contexts. GAIN Briefing Paper…

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  • Advocacy,  Data value chain

    India Nutrition Data Bonanza

    August 1, 2019

    IFPRI’s Purnima Menon shares elements of the proposed nutrition monitoring framework for India In order to support India’s robust policy framework for nutrition, it is imperative that the nutrition community converge on measurement metrics and programmatic actions. On May 1, the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) and Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (“Gates Foundation”) co-hosted the India Nutrition Data Bonanza in…

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  • Data value chain,  Survey data

    The World Health Assembly Global Nutrition Monitoring Framework: Aspiring to track global progress in nutrition

    July 8, 2019

    Accelerating nutrition progress through target setting Source: World Health Organization. Global Targets 2025. https://www.who.int/nutrition/global-target-2025/en/ In the wake of the Millennium Development Goals, the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) became a rallying point for the global nutrition community to accelerate actions towards reducing malnutrition. In 2012, the World Health Assembly (WHA) endorsed six Global Nutrition Targets for 2025. The nutrition targets are…

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  • Data collection,  Data value chain,  Survey data

    Beyond Definition: Attaching meaning to indicators

    June 26, 2019

    An interview with Jef Leroy, IFPRI A worker with the partner organization of Save the Children measures a child in the slums of Govandi, Mumbai, India. © 2016 Mayank Soni (Save the Children), Courtesy of Photoshare Stunting, or children assessed as too short for their age, has become a north star indicator for the nutrition community. Many advocates, policy makers,…

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  • Advocacy,  Data value chain,  Survey data

    Release of Technical Consultation on Measuring Nutrition in Population-Based Household Surveys and Associated Facility Assessments Meeting Report

    December 5, 2018

    The full meeting report, presentations, and working group notes from the Technical Consultation on Measuring Nutrition in Population-Based Household Surveys and Associated Facility Assessments (September 19-20, 2018) are now available on the DataDENT website here.

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  • Advocacy,  Data value chain,  Demographic and Health Surveys,  Multiple Indicator Cluster Surveys,  Survey data

    How can we advance nutrition measurement?

    October 19, 2018

    Technical Consultation on Measuring Nutrition in Population-Based Household Surveys and Associated Facility Assessments (September 19-20, 2018) Last month, DataDENT collaborated with partners for two events to discuss how we can improve coverage measurement of nutrition counseling interventions and fill nutrition data gaps in population-based household and facility surveys. The Joint Consultation on Approaches to Measure Coverage of Nutrition Counselling Interventions…

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  • Data value chain

    Partner Interview: Nutrition Needs a Data Revolution

    September 28, 2018

    We sat down with members of the Nutrition team at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation: Rahul Rawat, Senior Program Officer responsible for the DataDENT grant, and Ellen Piwoz, Lead of the Data Analytics and Evidence initiative. Rebecca Heidkamp, a faculty member at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health (JHSPH) who serves as the Principal Investigator for DataDENT, also…

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