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Who is being reached? Rethinking how to collect, analyze and use data on the coverage of multisectoral nutrition interventions

IUNS-ICN International Congress of Nutrition 2025, Paris, France

DataDENT hosted a Scientific Symposium at the IUNS- ICN 2025 conference that presented a synthesis of our work to improve the collection and use of multisector intervention coverage data. Objectives: To identify common challenges with current approaches to...

Can we measure that? A stepwise approach to design valid household survey indicators and questions about nutrition intervention coverage

Description: Speakers discussed the need to develop better nutrition coverage indicators and survey questions. They gave real-world examples from DataDENT’s efforts to design and refine intervention coverage measures for maternal micronutrient supplements. Topics...

Can we measure that? A stepwise approach to design valid household survey indicators and questions about nutrition intervention coverage

ANH Academy Learning Lab 2025

DataDENT hosted a Learning Lab at the 10th Annual Agriculture, Nutrition & Health Academy Week in Tanzania. The session walked participants through critical considerations for designing new nutrition intervention coverage indicators that can be measured using...

Improving multi-sectoral nutrition coverage measurement: The One Nutrition Coverage Survey in Bangladesh

Swetha Manohar and Phuong Nguyen (IFPRI)

Over the last two decades many low-and-middle-income countries (LMICs) have developed multi-sectoral nutrition policies to address high rates of malnutrition across their populations. As of 2022, 45 out of 66 Scaling Up for Nutrition (SUN) countries have a national...

Methodological considerations and cost to measure coverage of multi-sectoral nutrition interventions: Protocol for the One Nutrition Coverage Survey in Bangladesh

Manohar S, Nguyen PH, Neupane S, et al. VeriXiv preprint. 2025

Preprint Article | https://doi.org/10.12688/verixiv.754.1 Date of Publication | March 2025 Abstract Introduction: Despite global commitments to eliminate malnutrition, over half of the world’s population remains affected. Multi-sectoral nutrition interventions...

Ensuring readiness to monitor the reach of new nutrition interventions: A call to invest in coverage indicator development and validation

Melinda Munos (BSPH)

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...

How many tablets did you take during pregnancy? Addressing the challenges of maternal micronutrient coverage measurement

Shelley Walton, Ellina Wood, and Melinda Munos (BSPH)

Maternal nutrition has been gaining traction as a policy priority across low-and middle-income countries (LMIC).  Investing in good nutrition for women before and during pregnancy is fundamental for the health and survival of both mothers and infants. According to the...

More to come: Taking stock of DataDENT’s 2021 achievements and 2022 plans

Rebecca Heidkamp (BSPH)

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...

Launch of the Compendium of Nutrition Intervention Coverage Indicators & Questions for Household Surveys

Tricia Aung and Rebecca Heidkamp (BSPH)

We are thrilled to launch the Compendium of Nutrition Intervention Coverage Indicators & Questions for Household Surveys today! The Compendium is a technical resource that can help national and subnational stakeholders fill information gaps around who is receiving...

Who is being reached? Rethinking how to collect, analyze and use data on the coverage of multisectoral nutrition interventions

IUNS-ICN International Congress of Nutrition 2025, Paris, France

DataDENT hosted a Scientific Symposium at the IUNS- ICN 2025 conference that presented a synthesis of our work to improve the collection and use of multisector intervention coverage data. Objectives: To identify common challenges with current approaches to...

Can we measure that? A stepwise approach to design valid household survey indicators and questions about nutrition intervention coverage

Description: Speakers discussed the need to develop better nutrition coverage indicators and survey questions. They gave real-world examples from DataDENT’s efforts to design and refine intervention coverage measures for maternal micronutrient supplements. Topics...

Can we measure that? A stepwise approach to design valid household survey indicators and questions about nutrition intervention coverage

ANH Academy Learning Lab 2025

DataDENT hosted a Learning Lab at the 10th Annual Agriculture, Nutrition & Health Academy Week in Tanzania. The session walked participants through critical considerations for designing new nutrition intervention coverage indicators that can be measured using...

Improving multi-sectoral nutrition coverage measurement: The One Nutrition Coverage Survey in Bangladesh

Swetha Manohar and Phuong Nguyen (IFPRI)

Over the last two decades many low-and-middle-income countries (LMICs) have developed multi-sectoral nutrition policies to address high rates of malnutrition across their populations. As of 2022, 45 out of 66 Scaling Up for Nutrition (SUN) countries have a national...

Methodological considerations and cost to measure coverage of multi-sectoral nutrition interventions: Protocol for the One Nutrition Coverage Survey in Bangladesh

Manohar S, Nguyen PH, Neupane S, et al. VeriXiv preprint. 2025

Preprint Article | https://doi.org/10.12688/verixiv.754.1 Date of Publication | March 2025 Abstract Introduction: Despite global commitments to eliminate malnutrition, over half of the world’s population remains affected. Multi-sectoral nutrition interventions...

Ensuring readiness to monitor the reach of new nutrition interventions: A call to invest in coverage indicator development and validation

Melinda Munos (BSPH)

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...

How many tablets did you take during pregnancy? Addressing the challenges of maternal micronutrient coverage measurement

Shelley Walton, Ellina Wood, and Melinda Munos (BSPH)

Maternal nutrition has been gaining traction as a policy priority across low-and middle-income countries (LMIC).  Investing in good nutrition for women before and during pregnancy is fundamental for the health and survival of both mothers and infants. According to the...

More to come: Taking stock of DataDENT’s 2021 achievements and 2022 plans

Rebecca Heidkamp (BSPH)

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...

Launch of the Compendium of Nutrition Intervention Coverage Indicators & Questions for Household Surveys

Tricia Aung and Rebecca Heidkamp (BSPH)

We are thrilled to launch the Compendium of Nutrition Intervention Coverage Indicators & Questions for Household Surveys today! The Compendium is a technical resource that can help national and subnational stakeholders fill information gaps around who is receiving...

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