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    Qualitative research and analyses of the economic impacts of cash transfer programmes in Sub-Saharan Africa

    Food and Agriculture Organization Corporate Document Repository, 2015
    This report synthesizes the analysis and findings of a set of six country case studies that explore the impact of cash transfer (CT) programmes on household economic decision-making and the local economy in sub-Saharan Africa. The study seeks to understand the impact of CT programmes in three interrelated areas:
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    Food fortification for a smarter healthier more productive world

    Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition, 2015
    More than two billion people suffer from micronutrient deficiency,  otherwise known as hidden hunger. Hidden hunger is a lack of the vital micronutrients needed to live a health life. Hidden hunger is different from hunger in that it is caused by the consumption of a diet that lacks essential micronutrients.
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    Fortifying our future: A snapshot report on food fortification

    Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition, 2015
    This snapshot report sets GAIN's perspective on food fortification and highlights the work of their partners in order to effectively employ food fortification as part of a new global food security system. In it the authors showcase efforts to drastically improve the nutritional quality of the diets of vulnerable and food insecure people across the globe.
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    Cash transfers and child nutrition: what we know and what we need to know

    United Nations Children's Fund, 2015
    Childhood malnutrition remains a significant global problem with an estimated 162 million children under 5 suffering from stunted growth. Social protection interventions, in particular cash transfer programmes, have the potential to contribute to the improvement of child nutrition.
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    Global Nutrition Report 2015: Actions and accountability to advance nutrition and sustainable development

    International Food Policy Research Institute, 2015
    Tackling, reducing, and even eliminating malnutrition in all of its forms should be considered an achievable priority for the world. This is a sentiment expressed in the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), at the 2015 Nutrition for Growth (N4G) summit, and in this 2015 Global Nutrition Report.
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    Nutrition and social protection

    Food and Agriculture Organization Corporate Document Repository, 2015
    This document analyses linkages and complementarities between social protection and nutrition, laying out the common ground between the two. It identifies general principles which should guide the design and implementation of social protection interventions in order to maximize their positive impact on nutrition.
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    Systematic review of current efforts to quantify the impacts of climate change on undernutrition

    Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, 2015
    Malnutrition is a challenge to the health and productivity of populations and is viewed as one of the five largest adverse health impacts of climate change. Nonetheless, systematic evidence quantifying these impacts is currently limited.
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    Integrating WASH and Nutrition

    US Agency for International Development, 2015
    Policy engagement is a vital step for integrating WASH and other interventions that impact nutrition programs. Having a national nutrition policy that recognizes the importance of WASH for nutrition outcomes paves the way for the development of integrated programming at all levels. Donors, governments, and implementers should endorse and support an integrated approach.
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    Scaling up impact on nutrition: what will it take?

    Advances in Nutrition, 2015
    Despite consensus on actions to improve nutrition globally, less is known about how to operationalize the right mix of actions — nutrition-specific and nutrition-sensitive — equitably, at scale, in different contexts.
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    Progress on Sanitation and Drinking Water – 2015 update and MDG assessment

    United Nations Children's Fund, 2015
    Looking back on 25 years of water, sanitation and hygiene monitoring, the report provides a comprehensive assessment of progress since 1990. The MDG target for drinking water was achieved in 2010 but the world has missed the sanitation target by almost 700 million people.

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