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    Preventing moderate acute malnutrition (MAM) through nutrition-specific internventions

    Community-based Management of Acute Malnutrition (CMAM) Forum, 2014
    This Technical Brief reviews current practice and evidence on nutrition-specific preventive approaches to MAM, providing practical guidance for implementers and programme managers, and highlighting gaps in evidence and guidance.   
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    Management of Moderate Acute Malnutrition(MAM): Current KNowledge and Practice

    Community-based Management of Acute Malnutrition (CMAM) Forum, 2014
    This Technical Brief focuses on current principles and approaches to MAM management, highlighting key constraints, gaps in knowledge and areas still lacking consensus.
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    SUN movement annual progress report compendium of country profiles

    Scaling Up Nutrition, 2014
    These country profiles are part of the Scaling Up Nutrition (SUN) annual progress report. Key Messages include:
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    SUN movement annual progress report

    Scaling Up Nutrition, 2014
    This progress report from the Scaling Up Nutrition (SUN) Movement shares how transformations are happening in ways where institutions and stakeholders work together and contribute to collective action. It uses, for the first time, self-assessments by countries, which form the heart of the Monitoring and Evaluation framework.Key findings include:
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    Report on the state of food insecurity in urban India

    MS Swaminathan Research Foundation, 2010
    A review of the global context in respect of food security shows that the slow growth rate of food production has led to a decline in per capita output of grain between the 1970s and the first decade of the twenty-first century, due in most part to the inability/unwillingness of governments to raise and spend required resources by way of public investment on rural and agricultural development.
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    An exploratory study on large-scale feeding programmes and the possibility of linkage with small and marginal farmers

    MS Swaminathan Research Foundation, 2013
    India is the seventh largest country geographically, second most populated and the twelfth largest economy in the world. The economy of India is diverse, with a number of major sectors including manufacturing industries, agriculture, textiles, handicrafts and services. Agriculture is a major component of the Indian economy.
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    The school feeding programme in India

    MS Swaminathan Research Foundation, 2011
    Across the world, school feeding programmes (SFP) have been seen both as a social safety net for vulnerable sections of the population and as an educational intervention aimed at ensuring that children go to school and that their learning is improved by elimination of hunger in the class room.
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    The Bhavishya Alliance: A Multisectoral Initiative to Address Undernutrition in Maharashtra

    International Food Policy Research Institute, 2014
    In 2006, a strategic, multistakeholder alliance among Hindustan Unilever, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), and the Synergos Institute was conceived and formalized as the Bhavishya Alliance to address malnutrition in Maharashtra.
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    Pustikar Diwas: Convergent Action to Reduce Child Undernutrition in Odisha

    International Food Policy Research Institute, 2014
    In 2009, the Department of Health & Family Welfare and the Integrated Child Development Services began Pustikar Diwas, which is a fixed-service delivery day on which medical personnel at primary health centers and community health centers attend the nutritional needs of severely underweight children and those suffering from severe acute malnutrition.
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    Leveraging the Power of Women’s Groups and Financial Services to Improve Knowledge and Behaviors for Improved Child and Maternal Nutrition

    International Food Policy Research Institute, 2014
    Microfinance institutions (MFIs), self-help promoting institutions (SHPIs), and their self-help groups (SHGs) reach about 90 million poor women in India, bringing them together regularly to participate in financial activities that support their livelihoods.

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