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  New knowledge on the gendered nature of poverty and wellbeing

  Impact Initiative, 2017

  A gendered understanding of poverty is crucial for exploring its differing impacts. Women, in particular, may be vulnerable to the effects of poverty and the causes of women’s poverty, and how poverty is experienced, may differ from men.
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  Partnerships and Opportunities for Strengthening and Harmonizing Actions for Nutrition in India (POSHAN)

  POSHAN (Partnerships and Opportunities to Strengthen and Harmonize Actions for Nutrition in India) aims to reduce the nutrition evidence gap in India by synthesizing, generating, and mobilizing nut
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  Centre for Chronic Disease Control (CCDC)

  Centre for Chronic Disease Control (CCDC) is, an independent and not-for-profit biomedical research organisation, based in New Delhi, India.
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  Multi-sectoral approaches to nutrition: nutrition-specific and nutrition-sensitive interventions to accelerate progress

  United Nations Children's Fund, 2017

  The case for investing in nutrition is clear. Poor nutrition during the first 1,000 days - from pregnancy through a child’s second birthday - can cause life-long and irreversible damage, with consequences at the individual, community, and national level.
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  African Nutrition Leadership Programme (ANLP)

  Orgaisation working towards the development of both individual and organisational leadership capabilities in the broader area of nutrition on the African continent.
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  Accounting for nutritional changes in six success stories: a regression-decomposition approach

  Global Food Security - journal, 2017

  Over the past two decades, many developing countries have made impressive progress in reducing undernutrition. In this paper, the authors explore potential explanations of this success by applying consistent statistical methods to multiple rounds of Demographic Health Surveys for Bangladesh, Nepal, Ethiopia, Odisha, Senegal, and Zambia.
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  Reducing child undernutrition: past drivers and priorities for the post-MDG era

  World Development, 2017

  Reducing child undernutrition is gaining high priority on the international development agenda in the post-MDG agenda, both as a maker and marker of development.
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  Strengthening public health nutrition education in India

  Transform Nutrition, 2014

  Malnutrition remains a major challenge for public health and for human and economic development in India. A lack of adequately trained public health professionals and nutritionists means that this challenge is not being met. Due to resource constraints, the most realistic way of improving this situation is to optimise the use of existing infrastructure.
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  A review of government programmes for women and children in India: implications for nutrition during the Thousand Day Period

  The Indian Journal of Nutrition and Dietetics, 2014

  The current Maternal and Child Health Nutrition (MCHN) statistics from India reflect poorly on the existing Government schemes. Experts recognize the conception of two year period (the first 1000 days) as a critical window of opportunity for influencing the poor MCHN status.
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  Why worry about the politics of childhood undernutrition?

  World Development, 2014

  Undernutrition affects over 2 billion people; but most of the global policy focus has been on technical solutions rather than an understanding of nutrition politics. This paper reviews existing literature on nutrition politics and policy. The authors identify a number of recurring themes surrounding knowledge; politics, and capacities.

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