by Laura Becker, Renee Manorat, Kyle Borces (Results for Development); Audrey Buckland, Rebecca Heidkamp (Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health) | Aug 15, 2019 | uncategorized
High-quality nutrition data is critical for country stakeholders, advocates, funders, and many others to assess needs, measure progress, and ultimately make decisions to take action. However, as our global data visualization tool (DVT) in nutrition landscaping...
by Sharmin Sultana | Aug 9, 2019 | uncategorized
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...
by Manita Jangid | Aug 1, 2019 | uncategorized
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...
by Sharmin Sultana | Jul 8, 2019 | uncategorized
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...
by Sharmin Sultana | Jun 26, 2019 | uncategorized
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 An interview with Jef Leroy, IFPRI Stunting, or children assessed as too short for their...
by Sharmin Sultana | May 20, 2019 | uncategorized
Progress on nutrition commitments: where are we now? Between May 20-28 of this year, the World Health Organization (WHO) will hold the 72nd annual World Health Assembly (WHA). The WHA is the decision-making body of the WHO at which Member States gather to review and...
