DataDENT and our local partner Nutrition, Agriculture and Health Initiative (NAHI) are close to finishing an assessment among national and sub-national actors implementing Nigeria’s National Multisectoral Plan of Action for Food and Nutrition (NMPFAN) 2021-2025. Our...
Taking action: Improve the nutrition content in DHS Round 9 Surveys
The Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) are a vital source of nutrition data for governments and development partners. In an online survey conducted by DataDENT in 2018, nutrition professionals were asked how they access and use nutrition data. Among the 191 survey...
Bridging the humanitarian and development divide through nutrition information systems
Our world is marked by the convergence of complex challenges that impact food and nutrition security: pandemics, conflicts, climate extremes, and economic shocks affect millions globally. Boundaries between humanitarian and development responses are dissolving in...
Developing pathways to cross-sector coordination of nutrition data in Nigeria
In October 2022, participants in the Nigeria National Nutrition Data and Results Conference coalesced around the need for improved nutrition data coordination and stronger capacity for data use across sectors and institutions. They called for development of a...
Ensuring readiness to monitor the reach of new nutrition interventions: A call to invest in coverage indicator development and validation
When a new nutrition intervention is introduced, stakeholders need to monitor the progress of scale up. However, there is often a lag between the introduction of an intervention and its integration into national data systems, including household surveys and...
Using validity as a criterion for selecting process indicators for the World Health Assembly 2030 nutrition targets
Last week the WHO hosted the 77th World Health Assembly (WHA). Back in 2012, the 65th WHA endorsed a set of six global maternal, infant and young child nutrition targets with an endline of 2025. In May 2024, a proposal was shared with the Member States about extending...
Trends and opportunities in nutrition data innovations
Given the increased need for high-quality and real-time data brought about by the COVID-19 pandemic, the time is opportune to leverage new data sources, methods, and technology. Within our session, we will first present a framework developed to organize the data...
Help shape the future of nutrition data
DataDENT shared recommendations on DHS-8 questionnaires View the PDF: Help shape the future of nutrition data
Together for Nutrition West Africa Data Forum: Event page with call to action & meeting report
In collaboration with Transform Nutrition West Africa (led by IFPRI), UNICEF, Countdown to 2030, Alive & Thrive, USAID, WHO, WAHO, and NIPN, DataDENT co-convened a two-day forum to share experiences and synthesize lessons learned around the generation and/or use...
Nigerian experiences shared at milestone Data Forum on Nutrition Action in West Africa
The Together 4 Nutrition Data Forum took place in Senegal in February 2020. This data forum was a significant milestone towards the goal of “Making better use of data and generating better data for use” to inform and direct nutrition actions in West Africa. Four...
Who needs nutrition data? Reflections from DataDENT in Nigeria
DataDENT and our local partner Nutrition, Agriculture and Health Initiative (NAHI) are close to finishing an assessment among national and sub-national actors implementing Nigeria’s National Multisectoral Plan of Action for Food and Nutrition (NMPFAN) 2021-2025. Our...
Taking action: Improve the nutrition content in DHS Round 9 Surveys
The Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) are a vital source of nutrition data for governments and development partners. In an online survey conducted by DataDENT in 2018, nutrition professionals were asked how they access and use nutrition data. Among the 191 survey...
Bridging the humanitarian and development divide through nutrition information systems
Our world is marked by the convergence of complex challenges that impact food and nutrition security: pandemics, conflicts, climate extremes, and economic shocks affect millions globally. Boundaries between humanitarian and development responses are dissolving in...
Developing pathways to cross-sector coordination of nutrition data in Nigeria
In October 2022, participants in the Nigeria National Nutrition Data and Results Conference coalesced around the need for improved nutrition data coordination and stronger capacity for data use across sectors and institutions. They called for development of a...
Ensuring readiness to monitor the reach of new nutrition interventions: A call to invest in coverage indicator development and validation
When a new nutrition intervention is introduced, stakeholders need to monitor the progress of scale up. However, there is often a lag between the introduction of an intervention and its integration into national data systems, including household surveys and...
Using validity as a criterion for selecting process indicators for the World Health Assembly 2030 nutrition targets
Last week the WHO hosted the 77th World Health Assembly (WHA). Back in 2012, the 65th WHA endorsed a set of six global maternal, infant and young child nutrition targets with an endline of 2025. In May 2024, a proposal was shared with the Member States about extending...
Trends and opportunities in nutrition data innovations
Given the increased need for high-quality and real-time data brought about by the COVID-19 pandemic, the time is opportune to leverage new data sources, methods, and technology. Within our session, we will first present a framework developed to organize the data...
Help shape the future of nutrition data
DataDENT shared recommendations on DHS-8 questionnaires View the PDF: Help shape the future of nutrition data
Together for Nutrition West Africa Data Forum: Event page with call to action & meeting report
In collaboration with Transform Nutrition West Africa (led by IFPRI), UNICEF, Countdown to 2030, Alive & Thrive, USAID, WHO, WAHO, and NIPN, DataDENT co-convened a two-day forum to share experiences and synthesize lessons learned around the generation and/or use...
Nigerian experiences shared at milestone Data Forum on Nutrition Action in West Africa
The Together 4 Nutrition Data Forum took place in Senegal in February 2020. This data forum was a significant milestone towards the goal of “Making better use of data and generating better data for use” to inform and direct nutrition actions in West Africa. Four...