Transcript Climate change, agriculture and health

POSHAN, LANSA & TRANSFORM
NUTRITION:
Latest Developments in IFPRI’s Nutrition
Portfolio
Suneetha Kadiyala
International Food Policy Research Institute
New Delhi
Meeting of Nutrition Coalition Members, November 4th, 2011
Conceptual Framework
CHILD NUTRITION
Food/Nutrient Intake
Access to
Food
Health
Maternal &
Child Care
Water,
Sanitation &
Health
services
Immediate
causes
Underlying
causes
Nutrition sensitive indirect
interventions
LANSA, TN
Institutions
Political and Ideological Frameworks
Economic Structure
Environment, Technology & People
Source: Adapted from UNICEF 1990 and Ruel 2008
Nutrition specific direct
interventions
POSHAN, TN
Basic causes
New Initiatives
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Partnerships and Opportunities for Strengthening and
Harmonizing Actions on Nutrition in India (POSHAN)
Leveraging Agriculture for Nutrition in South Asia
(LANSA)
Transform Nutrition
POSHAN
India
BMGF Supported 4 Year Grant
Goal and Objectives of POSHAN
POSHAN’s goal is to improve and support policy and program
decisions and actions to accelerate reductions in maternal and
child under nutrition in India, through an inclusive process of
evidence synthesis, knowledge generation, and knowledge
mobilization.
OBJECTIVES
1. Analyze direct and indirect nutrition-relevant interventions to
generate knowledge on optimal approaches to address major
bottlenecks to improve maternal and child nutrition outcomes in
India
2. Mobilize evidence-based and actionable knowledge to inform
policy formulation and support program planning for nutrition
at the national level and in 3-4 key states.
POSHAN Theory of Change
Generating Knowledge: Proposed Activities
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Synthesis of program experiences that can be replicated
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Field assessment of 3-4 program innovations judged to be the
most transferable with the highest potential for impact
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Experimental studies of 2-3 core operational innovations to
rigorously pressure-test them in current implementation systems.
Knowledge Mobilization: Proposed Activities
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Engaging with Government and state level policy makers/
core strategic partners in early consultations, program reviews,
field assessments, and field experiments
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Convene knowledge mobilization and learning community for
stakeholders implementing or evaluating actions to accelerate
the reductions in undernutrition
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Establish and maintain a knowledge management system to
bring together, in one virtual space, all critical learning about
program successes and failures in India
Initiating Partners
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International Food Policy Research Institute (Lead)
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Public Health Foundation of India
Knowledge Mobilization
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Institute of Development Studies
Others potential partners
 Government at the national and State levels (Bihar, M.P)
 NGOs
 National & International Research Institutes
LANSA
India, Bangladesh, Afghanistan, Pakistan
DFID Supported 6 Year Grant
Core Research Questions
1) How can agriculture and food systems become more nutrition
sensitive?
2) How enabling is the wider context in linking nutrition-sensitive
agriculture and food systems to other determinants of
nutrition status?
3) What is the scope for the embedding of nutrition innovations
within specific agricultural interventions?
Cross-cutting issues: innovation, gender, fragility
Partners
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M.S. Swaminathan Research Foundation, India (Lead)
International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
BRAC International, Bangladesh
Collective for Social Science Research (CSSR), Pakistan
Institute for Development Studies (IDS), UK
Leverhulme Centre for Integrated Research on Agriculture and
Health (LCIRAH), UK
Transform Nutrition
India, Bangladesh, Ethiopia, Kenya
(Nepal, Vietnam, Nigeria, Zimbabwe)
DFID Supported 6 Year Grant
Core Research Questions
1)
How can direct nutrition-specific interventions targeted to
the “window of opportunity” be appropriately prioritized,
implemented, scaled up and sustained in different settings?
2)
How can indirect interventions (social protection, agriculture,
and women’s empowerment) have a greater impact on
improving nutrition?
3)
How can an enabling environment be promoted, and
existing and enhanced political and economic resources be
used most effectively to improve nutrition?
Cross-cutting themes: governance, inclusion, fragility
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Partners
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International Food Policy Research Institute (Lead)
International Centre for Research on Diarrhoeal Disease,
Bangladesh (ICIDDR,B)
Institute for Development Studies (IDS)
Public Health Foundation of India (PHFI)
Save the Children (SC)
University of Nairobi (UoN)
Thank You