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  The Health Subcenter as an Effective Platform for Coordinated Capacity Building and Supportive Supervision of Frontline Workers

  International Food Policy Research Institute, 2014

  Given the range of frontline staff and their complementary aims, the health subcenter represents an optimal geographical and demographic unit for health and nutrition programmes to target specific outcomes through nutrition-specific interventions. It is a natural platform for convergence among staff of both the Department of Health and the Department of Social Welfare.
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  Panchayat-Led Nutrition and Daycare Centres—The Fulwari Scheme of Chhattisgarh

  International Food Policy Research Institute, 2014

  Chhattisgarh has a statewide programme using community health workers called mitanins. The National Rural Health Mission organises the payment of small stipends to the mitanins through the panchayats and recognizes them as accredited social health activists.
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  A Multisectoral Initiative to Address Nutrition among Children in Remote, Conflict-Affected Zones of Odisha

  International Food Policy Research Institute, 2014

  One of the challenges to address stunting in Odisha is the lack of trained frontline workers to assess and refer affected children to appropriate health services for care and treatment.
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  Toward Improved Nutrition: The Atal Bal Arogya Evam Poshan Mission

  International Food Policy Research Institute, 2014

  Half of the children in Madhya Pradesh under age 5 are stunted and 35 percent are wasted.
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  Collaboration of Integrated Child Development Services with Self-Help Groups to Decentralize the Supply of Supplementary Feeding at Anganwadi Centers

  International Food Policy Research Institute, 2014

  The Integrated Child Development Services programme provides supplementary food to millions of women and young children in India for approximately 300 days a year at its anganwadi centers (AWCs).
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  Food legislation in South Asia and its link with food security: a case study of Pakistan

  Sustainable Development Policy Institute, Pakistan, 2013

  Food plays very vital role in maintaining proper health and also helps in prevention and cure of diseases. Good nutritive food makes health, but at the same time bad or unhealthy food gives rise to several diseases.
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  Gender and Food Security: Towards Gender-Just Food and Nutrition Security

  Institute of Development Studies UK, 2014

  There is more than enough food in the world to feed everyone, but the number of people who do not have enough to eat remains unacceptably high, with disproportionate impacts on women and girls. Reversing this shocking trend must be a top priority for governments and international institutions and responses must treat food insecurity as a gender equality, rights and social justice issue.
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  Implementation Notes

  International Food Policy Research Institute, 2014

  The Partnerships and Opportunities to Strengthen and Harmonize Actions for Nutrition in India (POSHAN) programme has launched a new series of publications called Implementation Notes. These papers summarize experiences related to how specific interventions or programmes are delivered. They are intended to share information on innovations in delivery and are not research products.
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  Therapeutic feeding programme coverage assessment report Wadela woreda, North Wollo zone, Amhara Regional State, Ethiopia

  Ethiopian Public Health Institute, 2010

  Ethiopia has one of the highest under-five mortality rates, with malnutrition contributing to more than half of all child deaths. The 2005 Demographic and Health Survey revealed that, even when humanitarian requirements are at their lowest levels, over 300,000 children under the age of five are affected by severe wasting.
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  Assessment of Iodine Deficiency Disorder (IDD) in Womberma and Burie Districts, West Gojjam Zone, Ethiopia

  Ethiopian Public Health Institute, 2010

  The objective of this study is to assess the situation of Iodine Deficiency Disorders (IDD) by conducting clinical examination for goiter, urinary iodide level determination, assessment of goiterogenic factors and availability of iodated salt, and knowledge, attitude and practices of the communities towards iodated salt in the area.

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