Last month, DataDENT authored a guest blog post for the Global Nutrition Report highlighting the role of nutrition data to accelerate equitable progress towards reducing malnutrition. Read our article here!
2019 DataDENT Highlights
2019 was an exciting year for DataDENT with milestones addressing challenges across the nutrition data value chain. Here we revisit our work highlighted through our top blog posts from this past year and look ahead at what is to come in 2020. New Demographic and...
The Case of the Missing Data
The Global Nutrition Report (GNR) is one of the most widely used sources of nutrition data. The GNR reports on progress against global nutrition targets in 194 countries. In October 2019, GNR launched updated Country Nutrition Profiles. Note: In May 2020, GNR launched...
Similar but not the same: The challenge of comparing indicators across nutrition data tools
High-quality nutrition data is critical for country stakeholders, advocates, funders, and many others to assess needs, measure progress, and ultimately make decisions to take action. However, as our global data visualization tool (DVT) in nutrition landscaping...
World Health Assembly: Monitoring Progress of the United Nations Decade of Action on Nutrition Progress through the Global database on the Implementation of Nutrition Action (GINA)
Progress on nutrition commitments: where are we now? Between May 20-28 of this year, the World Health Organization (WHO) will hold the 72nd annual World Health Assembly (WHA). The WHA is the decision-making body of the WHO at which Member States gather to review and...
How can data visualization tools support nutrition decision-makers?
Health Extension Worker Meseret Mekura sits in front of graphs outlining the state of health in her community at Remeda Health Post, Sidama Health Zone, Ethiopia. © 2012 Kate Hawkins/Pamoja Communications, Courtesy of Photoshare A nutrition data revolution The 2014...
We live in a breastfeeding unfriendly world.
No country in the world has met all guidelines outlined by the World Health Organization (WHO) and United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) for a breastfeeding enabling environment. Led by WHO and UNICEF, the Global Breastfeeding Collective kicked off World...
Has the revolution arrived? Why 2020 is a crucial year for nutrition data
Last month, DataDENT authored a guest blog post for the Global Nutrition Report highlighting the role of nutrition data to accelerate equitable progress towards reducing malnutrition. Read our article here!
2019 DataDENT Highlights
2019 was an exciting year for DataDENT with milestones addressing challenges across the nutrition data value chain. Here we revisit our work highlighted through our top blog posts from this past year and look ahead at what is to come in 2020. New Demographic and...
The Case of the Missing Data
The Global Nutrition Report (GNR) is one of the most widely used sources of nutrition data. The GNR reports on progress against global nutrition targets in 194 countries. In October 2019, GNR launched updated Country Nutrition Profiles. Note: In May 2020, GNR launched...
Similar but not the same: The challenge of comparing indicators across nutrition data tools
High-quality nutrition data is critical for country stakeholders, advocates, funders, and many others to assess needs, measure progress, and ultimately make decisions to take action. However, as our global data visualization tool (DVT) in nutrition landscaping...
World Health Assembly: Monitoring Progress of the United Nations Decade of Action on Nutrition Progress through the Global database on the Implementation of Nutrition Action (GINA)
Progress on nutrition commitments: where are we now? Between May 20-28 of this year, the World Health Organization (WHO) will hold the 72nd annual World Health Assembly (WHA). The WHA is the decision-making body of the WHO at which Member States gather to review and...
How can data visualization tools support nutrition decision-makers?
Health Extension Worker Meseret Mekura sits in front of graphs outlining the state of health in her community at Remeda Health Post, Sidama Health Zone, Ethiopia. © 2012 Kate Hawkins/Pamoja Communications, Courtesy of Photoshare A nutrition data revolution The 2014...
We live in a breastfeeding unfriendly world.
No country in the world has met all guidelines outlined by the World Health Organization (WHO) and United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) for a breastfeeding enabling environment. Led by WHO and UNICEF, the Global Breastfeeding Collective kicked off World...