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Child malnutrition
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Outpatient Management of Children With World Health Organization Chest Indrawing Pneumonia: Implementation risks and proposed solutions
This article presents the authors' recommendations for the World Health Organization Integrated Management of Childhood Illness Guidelines, which provide the basis for treatment recommendations for children with pneumonia in most low-resource settings. It
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Nourish Project Baseline Survey Report, June 2016
This document reports the findings of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and United States Presidential Initiative Feed the Future (FTF)-supported NOURISH Project cross-sectional baseline. The NOURISH Project seeks to reduce th
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Wash & Nutrition: Recent research and the Save the Children experience
This document presents important findings in the field of Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) as well as Nutrition. The research is illustrated with important observations from Save the Children's WASH and nutrition projects in Ethiopia, Zimbabwe and Vie
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Children's Participation in Learning and Action for Nutrition: A basic guide
The Children's Participation in Learning and Action for Nutrition (PCAAN) approach contributes to the reduction of chronic malnutrition by building and consolidating a platform that enables children to work together to create behaviour change for themselv
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Ending Malnutrition for Every Last Child in Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka has made impressive progress in achieving almost all the target of the Millenium Development Goals and a Human Development Index of 0.757 (in 2014); however, malnutrition continues to be an issue. Although the country has achieved some remarkabl
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Improving child nutrition: The achievable imperative for global progress
A new UNICEF report offering evidence that real progress is being made in the fight against stunted growth – the hidden face of poverty for 165 million children under the age of five. Stunting affects 165 million children under 5 years of age around the w
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Social Protection and Child Malnutrition in Tanzania: A pressing development challenge
Tanzania has sustained high rates of economic growth in recent years, but it has had limited direct impact on the majority of Tanzanians’ lives. Despite attempts at policy level to create a national social protection agenda, little concrete progress has b
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Social Protection and Child Malnutrition in Ethiopia: Realising the nutrition potential of social protection- progress and challenges
Ethiopia has made significant progress towards reducing poverty over the last several years. However, it remains one of the poorest countries in the world, with rural areas suffering from pervasive levels of deprivation and seasonal hunger. Children are p
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Social Protection and Child Malnutrition in Bangladesh: Impressive achievements- but stunting remains a challenge
Bangladesh has an impressive record in reducing poverty and child mortality. The number of people living below the poverty line went down by 40% in the ten years to 2010. And the rate of neonatal and infant mortality has shown a continuous decline, with B
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Social Protection and Child Malnutrition in Kenya: Greater coordination and better targeting needed
Child malnutrition represents a significant and pressing development challenge in Kenya. Even before the most recent food crisis, Kenya was classified as having a serious hunger problem. Limited progress in both child and maternal nutrition remains a seri
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Mettre fin à l’État d’Urgence Quotidien: Résilience et enfants au Sahel
18 million people are experiencing a major crisis in the Sahel. This crisis is neither onset by drought or a food shortage, but is rather the result of a lack of resilience against financial shocks in the region. This has real and severe consequences on t
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Food for Thought: Save the Children's influencing of the UK Department for International Development on nutrition- evidence and lessons
Tackling malnutrition is crucially important for achieving development and saving children’s lives, and Save the Children and others in the nutrition community identified that the UK Department for International Development (DFID) was falling short. Since