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    Helpdesk Report: How holistic water, sanitation, health and hygiene promotion investments represent value for money and represent positive effects on attendance, retention and learning

    Department for International Development, UK, 2010
    The multiple ways in which water, sanitation, and hygiene education in schools (WASH in Schools) contributes toward education – including attendance, retention and learning – is fairly well documented.
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    Helpdesk Report: Studies on undernutrition and malaria

    Department for International Development, UK, 2010
    This review looks at articles relating to malaria and nutrition. These addressed different stages of the lifecycle, both vivax and falciparum malaria, and varying nutritional interventions. Of these, the 5-10 most-cited trials and reviews relating to each of general undernutrition, micronutrient deficiency, vitamin A, or zinc were selected for review and the ten most relevant are included.
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    Helpdesk Report: Nutrition for under 2s

    Department for International Development, UK, 2010
    Nutrition and nurturing during the first years of life are both crucial for life-long health and well-being. Malnutrition is responsible, directly or indirectly for about one third of deaths among children under five. Well above two thirds of these deaths, often associated with inappropriate feeding practices, occur during the first year of life.
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    Helpdesk Report: Salt intake

    Department for International Development, UK, 2011
    There is mixed evidence of the extent of the problem of high salt intake in South Asia and sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). Different reports and different unit measurements make it hard to compare and assess data. Data suggests:
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    Helpdesk report: Education interventions and their impact on nutrition

    Department for International Development, UK, 2012
    This helpdesk query produces a report focused on nutrition interventions and their impact on school age children. In addition, it also considered a focus on any nutrition impacts on children of under two years of age (possibly indirect i.e. through intergenerational channels).
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    Helpdesk Report: Community-led Total Sanitation in Africa

    Health and Education Advice and Resource Team, 2013
    Evidence and comments suggest that Community-led Total Sanitation (CLTS) has been successful in some cases in Africa, however it is difficult to find strong data to support this.
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    Helpdesk Report: Health and nutrition for displaced populations

    Health and Education Advice and Resource Team, 2014
    This helpdesk report focuses on evidence of the most appropriate ways to support health and nutrition outcomes for management of protracted population displacement. It highlights information on psycho-social social impacts of protracted displacement (including gender). Findings on health and nutrition management of protracted population displacement include:
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    Helpdesk Report: Education and nutrition

    Department for International Development, UK, 2011
    This Helpdesk paper provides an overview of the evidence on educational outcomes from nutrition and nutritional outcomes from education.  It includes the following sections: effects of intra-uterine growth retardation; low birth-weight, effects of poor infant nutrition (low weight, stunting, breastfeeding), iron deficiency anaemia in school age children, parental education and school healt
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    Helpdesk Report: Nutrition data and accountability

    Department for International Development, UK, 2012
    This report includes the following sections: Use of community scorecards (CSCs) to improve nutrition services:
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    Impact Evaluation of the DFID Programme to Accelerate Improved Nutrition for the Extreme Poor in Bangladesh, Phase II

    Health and Education Advice and Resource Team, 2014
    The DFID Programme to Accelerate Improved Nutrition for the Extreme Poor in Bangladesh aims to improve nutrition outcomes for children, mothers and adolescent girls by integrating the delivery of a number of nutrition-specific (or direct) interventions with the livelihood support provided to extremely poor people by three existing programmes in Bangladesh.

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