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...
Nutrition data use and needs: Findings from an online survey of global nutrition stakeholders
Journal Article: https://datadent.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/jogh-10-020403-1.pdf | PDF 1,038KB Publication Date | December 2020 Abstract To document what type of information decision-makers at various levels are currently using and what type of information they...
Nutrition Indicator Framework India
Report | 429KB Date of Publication | December 2020 In collaboration with Partnerships and Opportunities to Strengthen and Harmonize Actions for Nutrition in India (POSHAN), NITI Aayog, and IDinsight, DataDENT developed a joint report addressing considerations for...
Nutrition data use and needs: Findings from an online survey of global nutrition stakeholders
Journal Article: PDF 1,038KB Publication Date | December 2020 To document what type of information decision-makers at various levels are currently using and what type of information they still need, Data for Decisions to Expand Nutrition Transformation (DataDENT)...
An Analysis of Nutrition-Relevant National Policies in South Asia Reveals a Gap in Addressing the Essential Nutrition Actions Recommended by World Health Organization (WHO)
Nutrition 2020, June 1-4, 2020 (Virtual) DataDENT shared our work “An Analysis of Nutrition-Relevant National Policies in South Asia Reveals a Gap in Addressing the Essential Nutrition Actions Recommended by World Health Organization (WHO)” (view abstract) (view...
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...
Nutrition data use and needs: Findings from an online survey of global nutrition stakeholders
Journal Article: https://datadent.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/jogh-10-020403-1.pdf | PDF 1,038KB Publication Date | December 2020 Abstract To document what type of information decision-makers at various levels are currently using and what type of information they...
Nutrition Indicator Framework India
Report | 429KB Date of Publication | December 2020 In collaboration with Partnerships and Opportunities to Strengthen and Harmonize Actions for Nutrition in India (POSHAN), NITI Aayog, and IDinsight, DataDENT developed a joint report addressing considerations for...
Nutrition data use and needs: Findings from an online survey of global nutrition stakeholders
Journal Article: PDF 1,038KB Publication Date | December 2020 To document what type of information decision-makers at various levels are currently using and what type of information they still need, Data for Decisions to Expand Nutrition Transformation (DataDENT)...
An Analysis of Nutrition-Relevant National Policies in South Asia Reveals a Gap in Addressing the Essential Nutrition Actions Recommended by World Health Organization (WHO)
Nutrition 2020, June 1-4, 2020 (Virtual) DataDENT shared our work “An Analysis of Nutrition-Relevant National Policies in South Asia Reveals a Gap in Addressing the Essential Nutrition Actions Recommended by World Health Organization (WHO)” (view abstract) (view...