Using social audits to improve delivery of state nutrition-related services: Lessons from the CAN Program

The overall goal of the three-year CAN program (2016–2019) was “Reducing malnutrition among children and women by facilitating efficient implementation of food and nutrition programmes, ensuring transparency, downward accountability and community participation.” The main intervention was a social au...

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Autores principales: Gordon, Jessica, Tranchant, Jean-Pierre, Nisbett, Nicholas
Formato: Brochure
Lenguaje:Inglés
Publicado: International Food Policy Research Institute 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/10568/143437
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Tranchant, Jean-Pierre
Nisbett, Nicholas
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description The overall goal of the three-year CAN program (2016–2019) was “Reducing malnutrition among children and women by facilitating efficient implementation of food and nutrition programmes, ensuring transparency, downward accountability and community participation.” The main intervention was a social audit process designed to sensitize communities to their rights and entitlements under the four primary schemes under the NFSA. The program aimed to increase knowledge and uptake of NFSA services, improve participation in community-level governance activities, especially by women, and improve institutional delivery of nutrition services and entitlements, as well as to reduce malnutrition, especially among women and children. Combining quantitative, qualitative, and process methodologies, the IDS-led evaluation looked at immediate impacts on strengthening local governance and improving service in the ICDS, Mamata, and TPDS programs, and explored contextual, design, and implementation-related factors that may have affected the effectiveness of the social audits. Communities (GPs) selected by the SPREAD program were randomly split into an Early and a Late group, which went through the audit process at different times. The quantitative analysis used differences in outcomes between groups to try to understand how change happened, how it accumulated, and whether it might be short-lived—important considerations for complex village-level governance.
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spelling CGSpace1434372025-11-06T05:41:26Z Using social audits to improve delivery of state nutrition-related services: Lessons from the CAN Program Gordon, Jessica Tranchant, Jean-Pierre Nisbett, Nicholas maternal and child health gender health empowerment malnutrition nutrition food security diet maternal nutrition women dietary diversity The overall goal of the three-year CAN program (2016–2019) was “Reducing malnutrition among children and women by facilitating efficient implementation of food and nutrition programmes, ensuring transparency, downward accountability and community participation.” The main intervention was a social audit process designed to sensitize communities to their rights and entitlements under the four primary schemes under the NFSA. The program aimed to increase knowledge and uptake of NFSA services, improve participation in community-level governance activities, especially by women, and improve institutional delivery of nutrition services and entitlements, as well as to reduce malnutrition, especially among women and children. Combining quantitative, qualitative, and process methodologies, the IDS-led evaluation looked at immediate impacts on strengthening local governance and improving service in the ICDS, Mamata, and TPDS programs, and explored contextual, design, and implementation-related factors that may have affected the effectiveness of the social audits. Communities (GPs) selected by the SPREAD program were randomly split into an Early and a Late group, which went through the audit process at different times. The quantitative analysis used differences in outcomes between groups to try to understand how change happened, how it accumulated, and whether it might be short-lived—important considerations for complex village-level governance. 2020-01-01 2024-05-22T12:14:08Z 2024-05-22T12:14:08Z Brochure https://hdl.handle.net/10568/143437 en https://hdl.handle.net/10568/145910 Open Access application/pdf International Food Policy Research Institute Gordon, Jessica; Nisbett, Nick; and Tranchant, Jean-Pierre. 2020. Using social audits to improve delivery of state nutrition-related services: Lessons from the CAN Program. Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). https://hdl.handle.net/10568/143437
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malnutrition
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food security
diet
maternal nutrition
women
dietary diversity
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Tranchant, Jean-Pierre
Nisbett, Nicholas
Using social audits to improve delivery of state nutrition-related services: Lessons from the CAN Program
title Using social audits to improve delivery of state nutrition-related services: Lessons from the CAN Program
title_full Using social audits to improve delivery of state nutrition-related services: Lessons from the CAN Program
title_fullStr Using social audits to improve delivery of state nutrition-related services: Lessons from the CAN Program
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title_short Using social audits to improve delivery of state nutrition-related services: Lessons from the CAN Program
title_sort using social audits to improve delivery of state nutrition related services lessons from the can program
topic maternal and child health
gender
health
empowerment
malnutrition
nutrition
food security
diet
maternal nutrition
women
dietary diversity
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