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Save the Children Global Nutrition Factsheet 2019
The global Nutrition factsheet summarizes Save the Children's nutrition approach, advocacy, programming and research work around the world for 2019. It also includes links to recent Save the Children nutrition-related publications School Health & Nutritio
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Universal Health Care and Coverage Index 2019
The global community has committed to work together to achieve universal health coverage (UHC) by 2030, as part of the Sustainable Development Goals. Despite this, at least half the world’s population still lack access to essential health services and inc
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Legacy Maternal and Child Cash Transfer Endline Evaluation: Key findings
The Legacy Maternal and Child Cash Transfer (MCCT) was funded by the Livelihoods and Food Security Fund from January 2016 to April 2019. The MCCT aimed to improve nutrition outcomes for mothers and children through the delivery of nutrition-sensitive cash
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Follow the Money: Equitably financing child survival
Four years on from the launch of the Sustainable Development Goals, child mortality rates continue to fall, yet big inequalities in child survival persist. Deprived and marginalised children are far less likely to have access to basic healthcare services
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Small Steps Big Leap: Save the Children India annual report 2017-18
This Annual Report, covering the period 2017-18, presents the work and achievements of Save the Children India. It highlights the organization's success in delivering on-ground projects to address some of the most pressing issues of children, including un
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Stunting, Wasting, and Education in Nigeria
Globally, the number of primary school children with nutritional deficiencies is high. This rapid review focuses on children with such deficiencies (namely stunting and wasting), and how it affects them throughout their primary education. Although the foc
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Advancing Measurement and Monitoring of Reproductive, Maternal, Newborn and Child Health and Nutrition: Global and country perspecitves
Aligned with the Sustainable Development Goals, the Global Strategy for Women’s, Children’s and Adolescents’ Health (2016–2030) represents an essential shift in prioritisation for actions designed to help families live healthy, secure lives and fulfil t
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Maternal and Child Cash Transfer: Can health staff provide cash transfers?
The Livelihoods and Food Security Fund funded a Maternal and Child Cash Transfer programme (MCCT) in Myanmar (January 2016- March 2019). The programme aimed to improve nutrition outcomes for mothers and children during the first 1,000 days, through the d
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Tanzania: Lishe Endelevu- Sustainable Nutrition
This is a Project fact sheet for the USAID-funded multi-sectoral nutrition activity Lishe Endelevu in Tanzania (2018-2022). "Lishe Endelevu" is Swahili for "sustainable nutrition".
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Nourishing a New Generation in Rwanda: Scaling-up the point-of-use fortification programme nationwide
Rwanda is the first country in Africa to attempt a nationwide expansion of its point-of-use fortification programme, which provides micronutrient powders (MNPs) to enrich children’s foods with essential nutrients. The programme is available across all 30
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Advances in the Measurement of Coverage for RMNCH and Nutrition: From contact to effective coverage
Current methods for measuring intervention coverage for reproductive, maternal, newborn, and child health and nutrition (RMNCH+N) do not adequately capture the quality of services delivered. Without information on the quality of care, it is difficult to a
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Cash Transfers and Child Nutrition in Zambia
In this research paper, UNICEF examines the impacts of an unconditional cash transfer (CT) programme on children's height-for-age. The programme was targeted to rural families in Zambia, with children under the age of five. The paper reveals that although