by Sharmin Sultana | Mar 15, 2021
In the fall of 2020, the Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) Program organized communities of practice to develop recommendations for improving the data collection instruments used in the Service Provision Assessment (SPA). In January 2021, the nutrition working...
by Sharmin Sultana | Mar 2, 2021 | uncategorized
On International Women’s Day, 8 March 2021, a Lancet series on Maternal and Child Undernutrition (MCUN) Progress was launched as part of the Nutrition Year of Action—a year-long effort to drive momentum on tackling malnutrition ahead of the 2021 Nutrition for Growth...
by Sharmin Sultana | Mar 2, 2021 | uncategorized
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...
by Sharmin Sultana | Feb 25, 2021 | uncategorized
Since mid-2020, DataDENT team members have been actively involved in Standing Together for Nutrition (STfN)—a multidisciplinary consortium of economics, nutrition, and health systems experts committed to addressing COVID-related nutrition challenges. To date the...
by Sharmin Sultana | Jan 28, 2021 | uncategorized
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....
