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...
NNS/SMART 2020 Survey Report with questionnaire in annex
Burkina Faso National Nutrition Survey 2020 took place from October 18 to November 10, 2020, in the context of Covid-19. The survey covered 36 provinces and 4 regions (Boucle du Mouhoun, North, East and Sahel). The survey investigated the prevalence of malnutrition...
Voice, access, and ownership: Enabling environments for nutrition advocacy in India and Nigeria
Journal Article | https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s12571-024-01451-2.pdf Date of Publication | June 2023 Abstract What constitutes an enabling environment for nutrition advocacy in low- and middle-income countries? While a sizeable body of scholarship...
Using cognitive interviewing as a tool to improve MICYN counseling survey questions in Bangladesh
Brief| PDF 312 KB Publication Date | May 2022 We used cognitive interviewing to qualitatively assess urban Bangladeshi women’s interpretation of and responses to phone survey questions pertaining to maternal and child nutrition intervention coverage. Suggested...
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...
Launch of the Compendium of Nutrition Intervention Coverage Indicators & Questions for Household Surveys
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...
Measuring the effectiveness of nutrition advocacy
What is advocacy for nutrition policy? Many policy reforms emerge after sustained periods of advocacy. In the field of nutrition, advocates have played a critical role in raising awareness about the causes and consequences of malnutrition and which interventions...
Revisiting core indicators: Principles from the updated WHO-UNICEF Infant and Young Child Feeding (IYCF) indicator guidance
In April 2021, WHO and UNICEF released updated definitions and measurement guidance for indicators to assess infant and young child feeding (IYCF) practices. Originally released in 2008, indicators of diet quality for children 0-23 months of age have been an...
Tracking India’s progress on addressing malnutrition and enhancing the use of data to improve programs
In collaboration with Partnerships and Opportunities to Strengthen and Harmonize Actions for Nutrition in India (POSHAN), NITI Aayog, and ID Insight, DataDENT developed a joint report addressing considerations for improving the availability and use of data to improve...
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...
Improving multi-sectoral nutrition coverage measurement: The One Nutrition Coverage Survey in Bangladesh
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...
NNS/SMART 2020 Survey Report with questionnaire in annex
Burkina Faso National Nutrition Survey 2020 took place from October 18 to November 10, 2020, in the context of Covid-19. The survey covered 36 provinces and 4 regions (Boucle du Mouhoun, North, East and Sahel). The survey investigated the prevalence of malnutrition...
Voice, access, and ownership: Enabling environments for nutrition advocacy in India and Nigeria
Journal Article | https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s12571-024-01451-2.pdf Date of Publication | June 2023 Abstract What constitutes an enabling environment for nutrition advocacy in low- and middle-income countries? While a sizeable body of scholarship...
Using cognitive interviewing as a tool to improve MICYN counseling survey questions in Bangladesh
Brief| PDF 312 KB Publication Date | May 2022 We used cognitive interviewing to qualitatively assess urban Bangladeshi women’s interpretation of and responses to phone survey questions pertaining to maternal and child nutrition intervention coverage. Suggested...
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...
Launch of the Compendium of Nutrition Intervention Coverage Indicators & Questions for Household Surveys
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...
Measuring the effectiveness of nutrition advocacy
What is advocacy for nutrition policy? Many policy reforms emerge after sustained periods of advocacy. In the field of nutrition, advocates have played a critical role in raising awareness about the causes and consequences of malnutrition and which interventions...
Revisiting core indicators: Principles from the updated WHO-UNICEF Infant and Young Child Feeding (IYCF) indicator guidance
In April 2021, WHO and UNICEF released updated definitions and measurement guidance for indicators to assess infant and young child feeding (IYCF) practices. Originally released in 2008, indicators of diet quality for children 0-23 months of age have been an...
Tracking India’s progress on addressing malnutrition and enhancing the use of data to improve programs
In collaboration with Partnerships and Opportunities to Strengthen and Harmonize Actions for Nutrition in India (POSHAN), NITI Aayog, and ID Insight, DataDENT developed a joint report addressing considerations for improving the availability and use of data to improve...
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...