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Home » Research pillars » Transforming leadership » Accountability and responsiveness

New approaches to accountability in nutrition

June 21, 2017 - Leave a Comment

Transforming leadership

Getting governments and others to step up to the challenges of undernutrition requires concerted efforts to build commitment, increase responsiveness and to hold these actors to account for their progress or its lack. For the past six years Transform Nutrition has been at the forefront of research and conceptual development on accountability and nutrition. This brief New approaches to accountability in nutrition describes the research, tools and approaches developed by the consortium to build, monitor and increase commitment, responsiveness and accountability in nutrition

Leadership in Nutrition: some new findings

July 22, 2014 -

Transforming leadership

images-27Leadership has been identified as a key factor in supporting action on nutrition in countries experiencing a high burden of childhood undernutrition, but there have been very few systematic studies of what supports or constrains leadership in nutrition. A new IDS Working Paper by  Nisbett, N., Wach, E., Haddad, L., and Shams, E.L. has just been published on what supports or constrains effective leadership in nutrition. It is based on a 4 country set of interviews by Transform Nutrition .

Mobile Phone Application for Nutrition Service Delivery in Indonesia

July 8, 2014 -

Transforming leadership

nutrition surveilance2smThe use of mobile phone technology may offer innovative opportunities to tackle persistently high levels of child undernutrition. This new evidence report, Designing a mixed-method impact evaluation for a mobile phone application for nutrition service delivery in Indonesia, partly funded by  Transform Nutrition, sets out to rigorously evaluate the piloting of a mobile phone application for nutrition service delivery, including community-based growth monitoring and nutrition counselling.

This evaluation study is a collaborative project between the Institute of Development Studies and World Vision.

Updated Hunger and Nutrition Commitment Index (HANCI)

July 1, 2014 -

Transforming leadership

HANCI-web-LOGO1Launched this week, the second Hunger and Nutrition Commitment Index (HANCI)  shows that some countries that have long seen little action in dealing with hunger and undernutrition, are now making significant efforts to tackle these issues. The index, which is partly funded by Transform Nutrition, measures political commitment to tackling hunger and undernutrition in 45 high burden developing countries, and compares these in terms of policies, laws and spending efforts.
IDS news story on HANCI
Blog by Lawrence Haddad
Blog by Melissa Leach, Director of IDS.

Using mobile phones for nutrition surveillance

May 6, 2014 -

Transforming leadership
ABIR ABDULLAH/SAVE THE CHILDREN

Abir Abdullah/ Save the Children

The use of mobile phones may offer innovative opportunities to make nutrition surveillance more effective, timely and credible. This new Research Brief Using mobile phones for nutrition surveillance from Transform Nutrition provides highlights from an evidence review on the impact of using mobile phone technology for nutrition surveillance in resource-low settings.

Measuring the commitment to reduce hunger

April 8, 2014 -

Transforming leadership

HANCI-web-LOGO1Can an index be constructed to assess governments’ commitment to reduce hunger? A new paper partly funded by Transform Nutrition Measuring the commitment to reduce hunger: A hunger reduction commitment index is now published in Food Policy

The Hunger and Nutrition Commitment Index: An introduction

March 6, 2014 -

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 How can we create greater government and donor accountability for ending hunger and undernutrition? What is political commitment and how can we measure it?

On Wednesday 19 February 2014 Transform Nutrition held a seminar which presented the Hunger and Nutrition Commitment Index (HANCI) which ranks governments on their political commitment to tackling hunger and undernutrition. The index was created to provide greater transparency and public accountability by measuring what governments achieve, and where they fail, in addressing hunger and undernutrition. The HANCI research team introduced their metric and methods and present the data and findings from the project so far. You can listen to the seminar again here as it was livestreamed.

Using Mobile Phones for Nutrition Surveillance: A Review of Evidence

November 28, 2013 -

Transforming leadership

Simon Berry

Nutrition surveillance is expensive and logistically laborious and therefore often non-existent in resource-low countries. Surveillance systems are also constrained by time-consuming and error-prone paper-based data collection followed by manual data entry. Consequently, monitoring of nutrition outcomes in real time and timely response to nutritional crises is often impossible. This new evidence review Using Mobile Phones for Nutrition Surveillance by Inka Barnett and Jose V Gallegos, funded by Transform Nutrition, outlines how mobile phone technologies could help to address many of these challenges and offer potential benefits.

World Food Day. Are we making progress on reducing hunger?

October 16, 2013 -

Transforming leadership

To mark World Food Day – when people around the world come together to demand that their governments act to end global hunger – the Institute of Development Studies (IDS) has published country scorecards based on findings from the Hunger and Nutrition Commitment Index (HANCI).

Lawrence Haddad on the Global Hunger Index and the Hunger and Nutrition Commitment Index by Ids (Uk) on Mixcloud

Hunger and undernutrition what do we know?

June 5, 2013 -

Transforming leadership

New animation video about the Hunger and Nutrition Commitment Index (HANCI)

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Our research questions

1. What are the features of an enabling environment for nutrition?
2. How can we assess, monitor and strengthen leadership and capacity?
3. How can we assess, monitor and strengthen accountability and responsiveness?
Existing research has highlighted the need to build sustained political commitment and capacity at a global and country level, for direct and indirect interventions to be effective. Such enabling environments are fundamental to transforming thinking and action on undernutrition, and reversing decades of neglect. Transform Nutrition have highlighted and reviewed a neglected area of research within nutrition – the wider policy and political processes which underpin nutrition’s basic determinants and which affect the capacity to act at basic, underlying and immediate levels. Foundational reviews published in the Lancet and World Development have been accompanied by innovative new research reviewing: 1) the role of governance amongst other cross-country predictors of nutrition outcomes;and the role of 2) leadership and 3) capacity in country constraints and success. Further foundational work has contributed to the methodological development of new methods of assessing country-wide or sub-national levels of commitment ; and real time monitoring of nutrition outcomes via mobile phones.

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Nutrition surveillance – still needed..
Global goals must fight the poor nutrition that kills 3 million children every year
Transforming Nutrition: Ideas, Policy and Outcomes 2015
Can mobile phones help fight against undernutrition?
Updated Hunger and Nutrition Commitment Index (HANCI)
The politics of reducing malnutrition
Using mobile phones for nutrition surveillance
Building on the momentum for nutrition
Why nutrition investment makes good economic sense
Tackling malnutrition in India: the role of higher education
World Food Day. Are we making progress on reducing hunger?
From Traction to Action
Naming, shaming and praising – Introducing HANCI
The politics of reducing malnutrition

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