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The role of the state government, civil society and programmes across sectors in stunting reduction in Chhattisgarh, India, 2006–2016

Childhood stunting has declined in India between 2006 and 2016, but not uniformly across all states. Little is known about what helped some states accelerate progress while others did not. Insights on subnational drivers of progress are useful not just for India but for other decentralised policy co...

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Main Authors: Kohli, Neha, Nguyen, Phuong Hong, Avula, Rasmi, Menon, Purnima
Format: Journal Article
Language:Inglés
Published: BMJ 2020
Subjects:
maternal and child health
mixed methods
child nutrition
programmes
body mass index
policies
health
nutrition policies
stakeholders
stunting
nutrition
health services
governance
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/10568/142382
Summary:Childhood stunting has declined in India between 2006 and 2016, but not uniformly across all states. Little is known about what helped some states accelerate progress while others did not. Insights on subnational drivers of progress are useful not just for India but for other decentralised policy contexts. Thus, we aimed to identify the factors that contributed to declines in childhood stunting (from 52.9% to 37.6%) between 2006 and 2016 in the state of Chhattisgarh, a subnational success story in stunting reduction in India.

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