Why India needs village-level data to target malnutrition in children (India Spend)

India Spend published an article asking the question, where are nutrition programs failing and why? To accurately understand this and for ideas on how to efficiently target the crisis of malnutrition among Indian children, it is necessary to collect and use data from villages. Senior research fellow Purnima Menon said, “The challenge that India often faces is the delivery of policy instruments like mid-day meal programs or Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS) that are delivered through the health system. Granular data could help people in the policy ecosystem as these fine-grained data could show if these programs implemented on the ground are actually working.”