The following is an excerpted version of a story originally published on the IFPRI South Asia website.
OneWorld Foundation, India (OWFI) has launched a new website for the OneWorld-POSHAN Media Fellowship that features news articles, published by fellows, related to undernutrition in India.
Despite targeted initiatives, undernutrition remains one of the major development challenges faced by India today. In fact, malnutrition is the underlying cause in roughly half of the 2.1 million deaths in children under the age of five each year.
One of POSHAN’s objectives is to mobilize diverse stakeholders around the issue of undernutrition. POSHAN uses many different approaches to share information resources on nutrition, and the OneWorld-POSHAN media fellowship program has become an important outreach tool to support these efforts.
The media fellowship is managed by OWFI and was initiated in May 2013 with a call for proposals. The fellowship aimed to bring together Indian journalists with a demonstrated interest in human development issues and provide them with support to enhance reporting on maternal and child undernutrition.
The OneWorld-POSHAN Media Fellowship website provides information related to the current fellows, the selection process, jury members, and news articles published (in both English and Hindi) by fellows related to undernutrition in India. The call for proposals, application form and background information on undernutrition also can be found on the site.
