This study seeks to assess the acceptability, compliance, and preference for iron supplementation; micronutrient powders (MNP) versus iron syrup. Additionally, this study seeks to assess front line health worker perceptions and experiences regarding…
Globally, child undernutrition is the underlying cause for 3.1 million deaths of children younger than 5 years. 18.7 million children under five years of age suffer from severe acute malnutrition (SAM) and an additional 33 million children suffer from…
This document provides background information to the participants of the workshop“ Towards Better Monitoring of Investments in Agricultural Research in Europe” organised for theIMPRESA project by the FAO and IFPRI on the 16 April 2015 in Rome. The…
Over the past twenty years, Helen Keller International (HKI) has implemented its Homestead Food Production (HFP) program to increase household production of micronutrient-rich foods and improve the quality of diets among vulnerable households across…
Social protection emerged as a policy tool to address poverty and vulnerability in developing countries. In recent years, international donor organizations as well as national governments of many developing countries have adopted social protection…
Halving global hunger has been one of the preeminent Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) over the last 15 years (United Nations, 2000) and its elimination is a key component of post-MDG objectives (HLPEP, 2013). Raising incomes is essential for this…
The overall study objectives are to better understand how a value chain can be made to be nutrition sensitive and ultimately leveraged to improve child nutrition, and to understand how certain incentives and services can be offered to actors within…
The evaluation uses a cluster-randomized design where 20 geographic clusters (subdistricts) were randomized to allocate them to comparison area, MNP-only area, Behavior Change Communication (BCC)-only area and MNP+BCC areas. The design uses a repeated…