Happy New Year to much of the world! While there are bigger headlines dominating our news feeds, the start of 2022 signals that we are in the final stretch in DataDENT’s first 5-year funding cycle. DataDENT global and country partners have been hard at work and also...
A landscape of trends and opportunities in nutrition data innovations
Slides | PDF 1,647 KB Slides (consolidated findings)| PDF 1,244 KB Nutrition Data Innovations Master Database | Excel 960 KB Publication Date | January 2022 Webinar (29 March 2022) Data innovations hold promise for addressing challenges across all aspects of...
Landscape of Official Development Assistance for nutrition data and information systems
Journal Article | http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjgh-2021-007370 Date of Publication | January 2022 Abstract: Nutrition data and information systems (ND&IS) are critical to guide the prioritisation, collection, analysis and dissemination of nutrition data in...
Improving nutrition through accountability and data systems: SMART Nutrition for Growth (N4G) data commitments
Guidance | PDF 324KB Publication Date | September 2021 As a collaborating partner of the Nutrition Data Partners Group, DataDENT supported the development of recommendations for “shaping commitments to improve nutrition data and accountability in support of food,...
Financing Nutrition Data and Information Systems: Three recommendations for donors to consider ahead of N4G
The Nutrition for Growth (N4G) Summit in December 2021 will provide a critical opportunity for the nutrition community to renew and expand commitments to address malnutrition globally in pursuit of the 2025 World Health Assembly (WHA) global nutrition targets....
Landscaping of policy and program actions for nutrition in South Asia
Landscaping of Policy and Program Actions for Nutrition in South Asia (July 2021) Are data available for tracking progress on nutrition policies and programs in South Asia? The World Health Organization (WHO) and other global nutrition and health agencies recommend...
Let’s make a plan!
Last month the Micronutrient Forum (MNF) released a Micronutrient Data Generation Initiative Strategic Plan—a comprehensive strategy for how to fill long-standing gaps in data on the prevalence of micronutrient deficiencies across low- and middle-income countries. The...
Advancing the data and accountability agenda for maternal and child undernutrition
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...
What data do nutrition stakeholders use and how can we better meet their needs?
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....
2020 DataDENT Highlights
2020 will be remembered as a year the world radically changed, but it was also a year that reminded us of the importance of fundamental structures and systems. Now, as much as ever, strengthening the nutrition data value chain (DVC) is needed to address the challenges...
More to come: Taking stock of DataDENT’s 2021 achievements and 2022 plans
Happy New Year to much of the world! While there are bigger headlines dominating our news feeds, the start of 2022 signals that we are in the final stretch in DataDENT’s first 5-year funding cycle. DataDENT global and country partners have been hard at work and also...
A landscape of trends and opportunities in nutrition data innovations
Slides | PDF 1,647 KB Slides (consolidated findings)| PDF 1,244 KB Nutrition Data Innovations Master Database | Excel 960 KB Publication Date | January 2022 Webinar (29 March 2022) Data innovations hold promise for addressing challenges across all aspects of...
Landscape of Official Development Assistance for nutrition data and information systems
Journal Article | http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjgh-2021-007370 Date of Publication | January 2022 Abstract: Nutrition data and information systems (ND&IS) are critical to guide the prioritisation, collection, analysis and dissemination of nutrition data in...
Improving nutrition through accountability and data systems: SMART Nutrition for Growth (N4G) data commitments
Guidance | PDF 324KB Publication Date | September 2021 As a collaborating partner of the Nutrition Data Partners Group, DataDENT supported the development of recommendations for “shaping commitments to improve nutrition data and accountability in support of food,...
Financing Nutrition Data and Information Systems: Three recommendations for donors to consider ahead of N4G
The Nutrition for Growth (N4G) Summit in December 2021 will provide a critical opportunity for the nutrition community to renew and expand commitments to address malnutrition globally in pursuit of the 2025 World Health Assembly (WHA) global nutrition targets....
Landscaping of policy and program actions for nutrition in South Asia
Landscaping of Policy and Program Actions for Nutrition in South Asia (July 2021) Are data available for tracking progress on nutrition policies and programs in South Asia? The World Health Organization (WHO) and other global nutrition and health agencies recommend...
Let’s make a plan!
Last month the Micronutrient Forum (MNF) released a Micronutrient Data Generation Initiative Strategic Plan—a comprehensive strategy for how to fill long-standing gaps in data on the prevalence of micronutrient deficiencies across low- and middle-income countries. The...
Advancing the data and accountability agenda for maternal and child undernutrition
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...
What data do nutrition stakeholders use and how can we better meet their needs?
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....
2020 DataDENT Highlights
2020 will be remembered as a year the world radically changed, but it was also a year that reminded us of the importance of fundamental structures and systems. Now, as much as ever, strengthening the nutrition data value chain (DVC) is needed to address the challenges...