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Home » Research pillars » Transforming sectors » Social protection

How do we harness the nutrition potential of social protection programs in India?

October 29, 2015 - Leave a Comment

This blog by Kalyani Raghunathan, IFPRI  was previously posted on the POSHAN website.

The most recent data on India from the Rapid Survey of Children (2013-14) shows that there has been considerable improvement in undernutrition indicators in India in the 9 years that passed since the last round of available survey data, the 2005-06 National Family Health Survey (NFHS-3). However with almost 40% of children under the age of 5 still stunted, and almost 30% underweight, there is ample room for improvement. One of the ways in which this can be done is to use the vast array of social protection programs in India as platforms for delivery of nutrition-specific and sensitive interventions, as well as drivers of change in the underlying determinants of these indicators. [Read more…]

New results from John Hoddinott

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Transforming sectors

Lawrence Haddad, IDS Director, highlights important new research from John Hoddinott, co-research director for Transform Nutrition. New work includes an evaluation of the Productive Safety Net Programme in Ethiopia, and Cost Benefit Ratios in Nutrition.

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Our research questions

1. How can social protection be made more nutrition-sensitive?
2. What is the role played by the production of non-staple foods in reducing undernutrition?
3. How can gendered-governance interventions create conditions under which undernutrition can be rapidly reduced?
Nutrition-sensitive interventions and programmes in agriculture, social safety nets, early child development and education have enormous potential to enhance the scale and effectiveness of nutrition-specific interventions. The nutrition-sensitive interventions Transform Nutrition are focusing on:
  • social transfers and social protection
  • agriculture interventions
  • women’s empowerment (including girl’s education).
     

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