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  Rapid desk-based study: Evidence to support improved solid waste management in Sierra Leone

  Evidence on Demand, 2014

  This study has involved a review of selected literature (published in the last 10 years or of particular interest for the intervention), dealing with issues and benefits linked with solid waste management worldwide and, specifically, in developing countries. An in-depth internet search has been carried out of academic literature and grey sources.
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  Nutrition baseline survey report for the national nutrition program of Ethiopia

  Ethiopian Public Health Institute, 2009

  Due to a high prevalence of malnutrition and micronutrient deficiencies in Ethiopia, the Ethiopian Government approved the country’s first-ever National Nutrition Strategy (NNS) in February 2008 to address these issues.
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  Childcare practices among factory working and housewife mothers and its implications on child nutritional outcomes in Addis Ababa and Oromia regions, Ethiopia

  Ethiopian Public Health Institute, 2010

  Inadequate care is one of the likely causes of child malnutrition. In view of this fact, today research initiatives in the area of childcare have received increased attention. The context of childcare is mainly composed of the feeding component, the health seeking behaviours of the caretakers and type of child minder.
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  Challenges and opportunities in CBN adaptation to pastoral areas in Ethiopia

  Ethiopian Public Health Institute, 2013

  Ethiopian pastoralist community are more than 12 million occupying 61 per cent of the total land mass with more than 29 nationalities and ethnic groups. They inhabit land with natural resources and a wealth of cultural and traditional heritage that remains largely untapped.
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  The cost of hunger in Ethiopia: implications for the growth and transformation of Ethiopia

  Ethiopian Public Health Institute, 2013

  The cost of hunger (COHA) study is an important step forward to better understand the role child nutrition and human development can play as a catalyser, or as a constraint, in implementation of Ethiopia’s Growth and Transformation Plan (GTP).
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  Sensory acceptability trial for a chickpea based ready to use supplementary food among moderately malnourished children (6 – 59 months)

  Ethiopian Public Health Institute, 2014

  Malnutrition is one of the most important causes of child mortality in Ethiopia being the underlying cause of 57 per cent of child deaths in Ethiopia. These children and their mothers suffer from the poor health and nutrition situation in the country.
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  Overview of the Ethiopian National Food Consumption survey (NFCS): implications for fortification programs

  Ethiopian Public Health Institute, 2011

  In 2011, the then Ethiopian Health and Nutrition Research Institute now EPHI conducted the Ethiopian National Food Consumption Survey (FCS) in response to a request by the Federal Ministry of Health to provide evidence for the National Food Fortification Program.
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  Factors associated with dietary practices and nutritional status among pregnant women in Wondo Genet district

  Ethiopian Public Health Institute, 2014

  Malnutrition is a serious public health problem linked to increase in the risk of mortality and morbidity (Blossner and de Onis, 2005). Women and young children are most affected. Diets that are deficient in macro and micronutrients place people at risk of malnutrition. A total of 925 million people were undernourished in 2010 worldwide (FAO, 2010).
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  Evaluation of the dynamics of national nutrition program implementation in Ethiopia

  Ethiopian Public Health Institute, 2014

  The Government of Ethiopia developed a National Nutrition Strategy in 2008, followed by a National Nutrition Program. The revised plan of action for nutrition has recently been updated to focus on stunting and multi-sectoral approach and cover the period from September 2012 to August 2015.
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  Diet diversity is negatively associated with stunting among Ethiopian children 6-23 months of age

  Ethiopian Public Health Institute, 2012

  Stunting (i.e. height-for-age z-score (HAZ)) during childhood is a major public-health problem in underdeveloped and developing countries as a result of chronically not meeting nutrient requirements for growth between conception and 24 months of age.

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