In April 2026, more than 50 global health leaders from governments, UN agencies, implementation partners, research institutions, NGOs, and donors came together at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg Center in Washington, D.C. for the Convening on Measurement and Monitoring of...
Advancing MMS Monitoring in Nepal
From 2024-2026 the Eleanor Crook Foundation funded Johns Hopkins to work with Anweshan and Helen Keller International to support the government of Nepal in planning for the monitoring systems aspects of the introduction and scale-up of multiple micronutrient...
A Tool for Identifying Activities and Cost Considerations in Food and Nutrition Data Systems and Surveys
Cost Consideration Tool | Excel 41.9KB User Guide | Pdf 552KB Date of Publication | January 2026 The Cost Considerations Tool is an Excel-based resource that helps stakeholders consider the full range of activities and cost considerations involved in collecting,...
Ethiopia food and nutrition data assessment findings
Brief | Pdf 2.20MB Date of Publication | November 2025 DataDENT has partnered with the Government of Ethiopia over several years on activities to strengthen multisectoral food and nutrition data. This brief presents findings from an assessment that aimed to...
DataDENT Ethiopia Dissemination Event
DataDENT hosted an event in Addis Ababa to disseminate outputs from two activities: 1) key findings from a comprehensive assessment of Ethiopia’s food and nutrition data ecosystem and 2) recommendations from a costed plan to strengthen capacity for the national...
Capacity Development Plan for scale-up of UNISE and RTPM nutrition data systems in Ethiopia
Capacity Development Plan | PDF 4.17 MB Date of Publication | August 2025 The Seqota Declaration (SD) Federal Program Delivery Unit (F-PDU) is leading the national scale-up of two digital administrative data systems—UNISE (Unified Nutrition Information System for...
Assessing institutional capacities to demand and use nutrition data for decision-making in Nigeria’s health sector: A mixed-methods study
Journal Article | https://doi.org/10.1186/s12961-025-01387-9 Date of Publication | September 2025 Abstract Background Using data for policy design, program implementation and accountability is a priority among nutrition stakeholders in Nigeria. However, the capacities...
Where should countries invest along the nutrition data value chain? A multisector perspective from Nigeria
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...
Revisiting the nutrition data value chain: An updated framework to promote data use
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...
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...
Convening on the Measurement & Monitoring of MMS
In April 2026, more than 50 global health leaders from governments, UN agencies, implementation partners, research institutions, NGOs, and donors came together at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg Center in Washington, D.C. for the Convening on Measurement and Monitoring of...
Advancing MMS Monitoring in Nepal
From 2024-2026 the Eleanor Crook Foundation funded Johns Hopkins to work with Anweshan and Helen Keller International to support the government of Nepal in planning for the monitoring systems aspects of the introduction and scale-up of multiple micronutrient...
A Tool for Identifying Activities and Cost Considerations in Food and Nutrition Data Systems and Surveys
Cost Consideration Tool | Excel 41.9KB User Guide | Pdf 552KB Date of Publication | January 2026 The Cost Considerations Tool is an Excel-based resource that helps stakeholders consider the full range of activities and cost considerations involved in collecting,...
Ethiopia food and nutrition data assessment findings
Brief | Pdf 2.20MB Date of Publication | November 2025 DataDENT has partnered with the Government of Ethiopia over several years on activities to strengthen multisectoral food and nutrition data. This brief presents findings from an assessment that aimed to...
DataDENT Ethiopia Dissemination Event
DataDENT hosted an event in Addis Ababa to disseminate outputs from two activities: 1) key findings from a comprehensive assessment of Ethiopia’s food and nutrition data ecosystem and 2) recommendations from a costed plan to strengthen capacity for the national...
Capacity Development Plan for scale-up of UNISE and RTPM nutrition data systems in Ethiopia
Capacity Development Plan | PDF 4.17 MB Date of Publication | August 2025 The Seqota Declaration (SD) Federal Program Delivery Unit (F-PDU) is leading the national scale-up of two digital administrative data systems—UNISE (Unified Nutrition Information System for...
Assessing institutional capacities to demand and use nutrition data for decision-making in Nigeria’s health sector: A mixed-methods study
Journal Article | https://doi.org/10.1186/s12961-025-01387-9 Date of Publication | September 2025 Abstract Background Using data for policy design, program implementation and accountability is a priority among nutrition stakeholders in Nigeria. However, the capacities...
Where should countries invest along the nutrition data value chain? A multisector perspective from Nigeria
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...
Revisiting the nutrition data value chain: An updated framework to promote data use
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...
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...