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  • Children,  Data collection,  Survey data,  Women

    Nutrition-Sensitive Social Protection Programs: What, Why and How Can We Measure Them?

    March 2, 2021

    What is nutrition-sensitive social protection? Nutrition-sensitive sectors address the underlying determinants of maternal and child malnutrition (e.g. food security, education), and investments in these sectors are critical to global strategies for eliminating undernutrition. As a cross-cutting dimension, social protection is core to nutrition-sensitive actions. Social protection initiatives aim to protect families from poverty and vulnerability by offering a mix of…

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    Nadia Akseer (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
  • Children,  Infant and Young Child Feeding,  Survey data

    Unpacking a framework for measuring infant and young child feeding counselling coverage in household surveys

    September 24, 2020

    Infant and young child feeding (IYCF) counselling is important to facilitate optimal feeding practices and improve child survival. I sat down with Sunny Kim, Research Fellow with the International Food Policy Research Institute and DataDENT team member, to discuss the recent paper “Measuring coverage of infant and young child feeding counselling interventions: A framework and empirical considerations for survey question…

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    Riley Auer 1 Comment
  • 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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    Riley Auer No Comments
  • 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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    Tricia Aung 2 Comments
  • 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 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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    jennafritz No Comments
  • Breastfeeding,  Children,  Complementary feeding,  Data collection,  Survey data,  Women

    Innovations in Nutrition Measurement: Lessons Learned from Population-Based Household Surveys in Burkina Faso and Kenya

    April 18, 2019

    A resident enumerator in Burkina Faso prepares for the third round of data collection for PMA2020, a mobile technology-based survey project that supports routine, rapid-turnaround, high quality data on family planning and other health indicators. ©2016 PMA2020/Shani Turke, Courtesy of Photoshare Countries with high burdens of malnutrition have increased investment in nutrition, but monitoring and evaluation efforts have been hindered…

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