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POSHAN, LANSA & Transform Nutrition: Latest Developments in IFPRI’s Nutrition Portfolio

Suneetha Kadiyala International Food Policy Research Institute New Delhi. POSHAN, LANSA & Transform Nutrition: Latest Developments in IFPRI’s Nutrition Portfolio. Meeting of Nutrition Coalition Members, November 4 th , 2011. Conceptual Framework. CHILD NUTRITION.

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POSHAN, LANSA & Transform Nutrition: Latest Developments in IFPRI’s Nutrition Portfolio

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  1. Suneetha Kadiyala International Food Policy Research Institute New Delhi POSHAN, LANSA & Transform Nutrition: Latest Developments in IFPRI’s Nutrition Portfolio Meeting of Nutrition Coalition Members, November 4th, 2011

  2. Conceptual Framework CHILD NUTRITION Nutrition specific direct interventions POSHAN, TN Immediate causes Food/Nutrient Intake Health Access to Food Maternal & Child Care Water, Sanitation & Health services Underlying causes Nutrition sensitive indirect interventions LANSA, TN Institutions Political and Ideological Frameworks Basic causes Economic Structure Environment, Technology & People Source: Adapted from UNICEF 1990 and Ruel 2008

  3. New Initiatives • Partnerships and Opportunities for Strengthening and Harmonizing Actions on Nutrition in India (POSHAN) • Leveraging Agriculture for Nutrition in South Asia (LANSA) • Transform Nutrition

  4. POSHAN India BMGF Supported 4 Year Grant

  5. Goal and Objectives of POSHAN • POSHAN’s goal is to improve and support policy and program decisions and actions to accelerate reductions in maternal and child under nutrition in India, through an inclusive process of evidence synthesis, knowledge generation, and knowledge mobilization. • OBJECTIVES • Analyze direct and indirect nutrition-relevant interventions to generate knowledge on optimal approaches to address major bottlenecks to improve maternal and child nutrition outcomes in India • Mobilize evidence-based and actionable knowledge to inform policy formulation and support program planning for nutrition at the national level and in 3-4 key states.

  6. POSHAN Theory of Change

  7. Generating Knowledge: Proposed Activities • Synthesis of program experiences that can be replicated • Field assessment of 3-4 program innovations judged to be the most transferable with the highest potential for impact • Experimental studies of 2-3 core operational innovations to rigorously pressure-test them in current implementation systems.

  8. Knowledge Mobilization: Proposed Activities • Engaging with Government and state level policy makers/ core strategic partners in early consultations, program reviews, field assessments, and field experiments • Convene knowledge mobilization and learning community for stakeholders implementing or evaluating actions to accelerate the reductions in undernutrition • Establish and maintain a knowledge management system to bring together, in one virtual space, all critical learning about program successes and failures in India

  9. Initiating Partners • International Food Policy Research Institute (Lead) • Public Health Foundation of India • Knowledge Mobilization • Institute of Development Studies • Others potential partners • Government at the national and State levels (Bihar, M.P) • NGOs • National & International Research Institutes

  10. LANSA India, Bangladesh, Afghanistan, Pakistan DFID Supported 6 Year Grant

  11. Core Research Questions • How can agriculture and food systems become more nutrition sensitive? • How enabling is the wider context in linking nutrition-sensitive agriculture and food systems to other determinants of nutrition status? • What is the scope for the embedding of nutrition innovations within specific agricultural interventions? Cross-cutting issues: innovation, gender, fragility

  12. Partners • M.S. Swaminathan Research Foundation, India (Lead) • International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) • BRAC International, Bangladesh • Collective for Social Science Research (CSSR), Pakistan • Institute for Development Studies (IDS), UK • Leverhulme Centre for Integrated Research on Agriculture and Health (LCIRAH), UK

  13. Transform Nutrition India, Bangladesh, Ethiopia, Kenya (Nepal, Vietnam, Nigeria, Zimbabwe) DFID Supported 6 Year Grant

  14. Core Research Questions • How can direct nutrition-specific interventions targeted to the “window of opportunity” be appropriately prioritized, implemented, scaled up and sustained in different settings? • How can indirect interventions (social protection, agriculture, and women’s empowerment) have a greater impact on improving nutrition? • How can an enabling environment be promoted, and existing and enhanced political and economic resources be used most effectively to improve nutrition? Cross-cutting themes: governance, inclusion, fragility

  15. Partners • International Food Policy Research Institute (Lead) • International Centre for Research on Diarrhoeal Disease, Bangladesh (ICIDDR,B) • Institute for Development Studies (IDS) • Public Health Foundation of India (PHFI) • Save the Children (SC) • University of Nairobi (UoN)

  16. Thank You

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