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Quantifying the nutrition transition among children in low- and middle-income countries
This blog advocates for collection of data on unhealthy food and beverages in DHS-8 and other national surveys.
Malnutrition: A key barrier to women and girls’ empowerment
This blog presents the current avaiability and need for core data relevant to nutrition in women of reproductive age in support of DHS-8 advocacy efforts.
Breastfeeding Counseling: The need for actionable data
This blog describes gaps in actionable data on breastfeeding counseling coverage during critical time points.
Recommendations to update nutrition content of the Demographic and Health Surveys
This blog shares a set of recommendations by nutrition community to update nutrition content of the DHS-8 and invites endorsement.
Preliminary findings from an online nutrition stakeholders survey
This brief shares findings from an online survey of nutrition stakeholders carried out to support DHS-8 revision advocacy efforts.
Measuring the coverage of nutrition interventions along the continuum of care: Time to act at scale
This article describes the availability of household survey data to track essential nutrition interventions across LMIC and recommendations for improving coverage measurement globally.
Digging in to the DHS and MICS nutrition data
This blog provides an orientation to nutrition data included in DHS and MICS as background to DataDENT DHS-8 advocacy efforts in 2018-2019.
Release of Technical Consultation on Measuring Nutrition in Population-Based Household Surveys and Associated Facility Assessments Meeting Report
This blog disseminates key outputs from the technical consultation on Measuring Nutrition in Population-Based Household Surveys and Associated Facility Assessments held in 2018.
Technical Consultation on Measuring Nutrition in Population-Based Household Surveys and Associated Facility Assessments
This report captures the proceedings from a global stakeholder consultation about data gaps and priorities for measuring nutrition in household and facility surveys in advance of the DHS-8 revision.
A comparison of indicators across nutrition data tools
This brief shares findings from a landscaping of global nutrition data visualization tools and monitoring frameworks about the variability in indicator definitions.