by Sharmin Sultana | Aug 31, 2025 | uncategorized
During our recent assessment in Nigeria, DataDENT and our local partner NAHI found significant variability across the 14 Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs) included in Nigeria’s National Multisectoral Food and Nutrition Action Plan (NMPFAN) in whether and...
by Sharmin Sultana | Jul 25, 2025 | uncategorized
An essential part of improving the availability and use of data in the countries where DataDENT works is understanding the needs and priorities of diverse national and sub-national actors engaged with the nutrition data value chain. We recently carried out multisector...
by Sharmin Sultana | Jun 30, 2025 | uncategorized
Many governments and donors are investing in Large-Scale Food Fortification (LSFF) as a cost-effective strategy for preventing micronutrient deficiencies. However, gaps in data on household-level coverage of LSFF are common for most foods except salt. In a previous...
by Sharmin Sultana | May 23, 2025 | uncategorized
For the last seven years DataDENT has championed the nutrition data value chain (DVC) as the guiding framework for our initiative. It is rare to see a presentation by a DataDENT team member that does not start with the DVC. DataDENT did not create the idea of a DVC or...
by Sharmin Sultana | Apr 17, 2025 | uncategorized
Moving multisector coordination from theory to practice is complex, and it is important to learn from country experiences. A multisector nutrition information system (NIS) supports coordination by synthesizing data from diverse data sources and across different...
by Sharmin Sultana | Mar 28, 2025 | uncategorized
Over the last two decades many low-and-middle-income countries (LMICs) have developed multi-sectoral nutrition policies to address high rates of malnutrition across their populations. As of 2022, 45 out of 66 Scaling Up for Nutrition (SUN) countries have a national...
