Learning from efforts to cost country plans: Priority technical issues to address

Background: In India, delivery of interventions to improve child nutrition requires active IC between the Ministries of Health and Family Welfare (MOHFW) and Women and Child Development (MWCD). This in turn requires linked actions in policy formulation, implementation, and monitoring & evaluatio...

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Main Author: Connolly, Helen
Format: Book Chapter
Language:Inglés
Published: International Food Policy Research Institute 2014
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Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/10568/149741
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description Background: In India, delivery of interventions to improve child nutrition requires active IC between the Ministries of Health and Family Welfare (MOHFW) and Women and Child Development (MWCD). This in turn requires linked actions in policy formulation, implementation, and monitoring & evaluation (M&E), but little is known about IC or how to optimize it.Objectives: To identify opportunities and challenges to achieving IC in policy, implementation and M&E for nutrition at the national level and in 2 states.Methods: Content analysis of policy & program documents, stakeholder interviews (n=38 national; 26 state).Results: Policy: Some shared objectives, an articulated need for IC, and diverse task forces support convergence in policy. Nutrition interventions are part of MOHFW programs, but nutrition is not a core objective. Implementation: Operational designs recognize need for coordinated frontline service delivery; delivery structures provide IC opportunities. However, personal relationships and shared understanding of work needs, rather than formal mechanisms facilitated IC. At state & district levels, facilitators were political commitment, will and leadership. M&E: Lack of common indicators and monitoring systems limit IC.Conclusions: There is potential to optimize IC but strong leadership, explicit roles and linked M&E systems could facilitate better IC for nutrition impact in India.Grant Funding Source: Supported by: Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, through POSHAN , led by IFPRI
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spelling CGSpace1497412025-11-06T03:52:42Z Learning from efforts to cost country plans: Priority technical issues to address Connolly, Helen birth weight anaemia nutrition policies indicators stunting malnutrition nutrition trace elements food supply children mortality poverty breastfeeding Background: In India, delivery of interventions to improve child nutrition requires active IC between the Ministries of Health and Family Welfare (MOHFW) and Women and Child Development (MWCD). This in turn requires linked actions in policy formulation, implementation, and monitoring & evaluation (M&E), but little is known about IC or how to optimize it.Objectives: To identify opportunities and challenges to achieving IC in policy, implementation and M&E for nutrition at the national level and in 2 states.Methods: Content analysis of policy & program documents, stakeholder interviews (n=38 national; 26 state).Results: Policy: Some shared objectives, an articulated need for IC, and diverse task forces support convergence in policy. Nutrition interventions are part of MOHFW programs, but nutrition is not a core objective. Implementation: Operational designs recognize need for coordinated frontline service delivery; delivery structures provide IC opportunities. However, personal relationships and shared understanding of work needs, rather than formal mechanisms facilitated IC. At state & district levels, facilitators were political commitment, will and leadership. M&E: Lack of common indicators and monitoring systems limit IC.Conclusions: There is potential to optimize IC but strong leadership, explicit roles and linked M&E systems could facilitate better IC for nutrition impact in India.Grant Funding Source: Supported by: Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, through POSHAN , led by IFPRI 2014 2024-08-01T02:49:51Z 2024-08-01T02:49:51Z Book Chapter https://hdl.handle.net/10568/149741 en https://doi.org/10.2499/9780896295643 Open Access application/pdf International Food Policy Research Institute Connolly, Helen. 2014. Learning from efforts to cost country plans: Priority technical issues to address. In Global nutrition report 2014: Actions and accountability to accelerate the world's progress on nutrition. Supplementary Online Material. https://hdl.handle.net/10568/149741
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Learning from efforts to cost country plans: Priority technical issues to address
title Learning from efforts to cost country plans: Priority technical issues to address
title_full Learning from efforts to cost country plans: Priority technical issues to address
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title_short Learning from efforts to cost country plans: Priority technical issues to address
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topic birth weight
anaemia
nutrition policies
indicators
stunting
malnutrition
nutrition
trace elements
food supply
children
mortality
poverty
breastfeeding
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