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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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A Cost of the Diet Analysis in Sylhet & Moulvibazar District in North-East Bangladesh, December 2018
The Cost of the Diet (CotD) assessment in Sylhet and Moulvibazar districts in 2018 was conducted to estimate the potential contribution of Suchana programme interventions on household food affordability. This analysis aimed at assessing the degree to whic
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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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Fighting for Breath Call to Action: End childhood pneumonia deaths
Pneumonia is the world’s leading infectious killer of children, claiming the lives of more than 800,000 children under the age of five every year, more than 2,000 every day. It is a shocking demonstration of pervasive health inequities disproportionately
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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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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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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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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
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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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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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Learning Brief: Village Savings and Loans Associations Promote Nutrition Sensitive Agriculture
This is a learning brief developed by the USAID/Nutrition and Hygiene project (Projet Nutrition et Hygiène- PNH). Access to sustainable micro-credit was long considered impossible in the rural communities of Mali’s Sikasso Region. Yet, with the support of
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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