by Sharmin Sultana | Dec 18, 2023 | uncategorized
Poverty pushes almost one in every 10 children around the world to skip school and work to earn. Such conditions can perpetuate the vicious cycle of poverty and malnutrition. Amid all this, can school help? School meal programs have emerged as a beacon of hope,...
by Swetha Manohar, Harold Alderman, and Sunny S. Kim (IFPRI) | Nov 14, 2023 | uncategorized
Nutrition-sensitive social protection (NSSP) refers to a subset of social protection poverty alleviation programs that include targeting approaches, interventions, and conditions to address the underlying determinants of malnutrition (Ruel 2013). Design features that...
by Shelley Walton, MPH, RD, Ellina Wood, MPH, RDN, Melinda Munos, PhD | Oct 9, 2023 | uncategorized
Maternal nutrition has been gaining traction as a policy priority across low-and middle-income countries (LMIC). Investing in good nutrition for women before and during pregnancy is fundamental for the health and survival of both mothers and infants. According to the...
by Natasha Ledlie and Abel Ahmed, Results For Development (R4D) | Sep 12, 2023 | uncategorized
DataDENT champions strategic planning, financing, and capacity strengthening as pillars of a strong enabling environment for nutrition data. DataDENT has supported governments and partners in Africa and South Asia in developing strategic outputs harmonized with...
by Emily A. Bobrow, Olutayo Adeyemi, and Roos Verstraeten | Jul 19, 2023 | uncategorized
In June 2023, DataDENT participated in a side session at the Agriculture, Nutrition and Health Academy Week (ANH2023) held in Malawi and online. The session, Going Deeper with Data and Methods to Improve Understanding of Food and Nutrition Security Linkages, was a...
by Rebecca Heidkamp (JHU) | Jun 30, 2023 | uncategorized
Low, middle, and high-income countries (LMIC) face similar challenges when collecting population-level data to inform nutrition policies & programs. Earlier this year, the American Society of Nutrition’s (ASN) Committee on Advocacy and Science Policy...
