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    Impact evaluation of the DFID Programme to Accelerate Improved Nutrition for the Extreme Poor in Bangladesh, Phase I: executive summary

    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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    Helpdesk Report: Nutrition interventions in developing and fragile contexts with a focus on community interventions and Yemen

    Health and Education Advice and Resource Team, 2014
    This helpdesk query report identifies evidence on the efficacy and cost-effectiveness of different interventions to impact malnutrition, with a focus on: Prevention:
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    Planning and costing to accelerate actions for scaling up nutrition

    Maximising the Quality of Scaling Up Nutrition, 2014
    The Scaling Up Nutrition (SUN) movement was launched in 2010 to reinvigorate efforts to address undernutrition globally.
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    Helpdesk Report: Nutrition programming in urban settings

    Health and Education Advice and Resource Team, 2014
    More than half of the world’s 7 billion people now live in urban areas. As the world’s population is becoming increasingly urbanised, new challenges are arising. The rural-urban gap in nutrition has narrowed in recent decades – essentially because the situation has worsened in urban areas.
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    Promoting equity through integrated early child development and nutrition interventions

    Wiley Online Library, 2014
    Sustainable development, a foundation of the post-2015 global agenda, depends on healthy and productive citizens. The origins of adult health begin early in life, stemming from genetic–environmental interactions that include adequate nutrition and opportunities for responsive learning.
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    Nutrition, information, and household behaviour experimental evidence from Malawi

    Institute for Fiscal Studies, London, 2014
    Incorrect knowledge of the health production function may lead to inefficient household choices, and thereby to the production of suboptimal levels of health. This paper studies the effects of a randomised intervention in rural Malawi which, over a six-month period, provided mothers of young infants with information on child nutrition without supplying any monetary or in-kind resources.
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    Baluchistan Province report: nutrition political economy, Pakistan

    Maximising the Quality of Scaling Up Nutrition, 2014
    In the Baluchistan Province of Pakistan, under-nutrition remains a recognized health problem and plays a substantial role in the region’s elevated maternal and child morbidity and mortality rates. Fifty-two per cent of children have stunted growth, 73.5% of children and 60.7% of pregnant women have vitamin A deficiency.
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    Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province report: nutrition political economy, Pakistan

    Maximising the Quality of Scaling Up Nutrition, 2014
    In the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KPK) Province of Pakistan, under-nutrition remains a recognized health problem and plays a substantial role in the region’s elevated maternal and child morbidity and mortality rates. Forty-eight per cent of children have stunted growth 68.5% of children and 76.2% of pregnant women have vitamin A deficiency.
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    Punjab Province report: nutrition political economy, Pakistan

    Maximising the Quality of Scaling Up Nutrition, 2014
    In the Punjab Province of Pakistan, under-nutrition remains a recognized health problem and plays a substantial role in the region’s elevated maternal and child morbidity and mortality rates. Although Punjab as a whole has marginally less under-nutrition than other provinces, there are large disparities within the province.
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    Sindh Province report: nutrition political economy Pakistan

    Maximising the Quality of Scaling Up Nutrition, 2014
    In the Sindh Province of Pakistan, under-nutrition remains a recognised health problem and plays a substantial role in the region’s elevated maternal and child morbidity and mortality rates. Forty per cent of children are underweight and 73% of children and 62% of pregnant women are anaemic.

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