The South Asia Food and Nutrition Security Initiative (SAFANSI) sought to address the South Asian Enigma — chronic malnutrition that has remained high despite strong economic growth — by fostering innovative actions that lead to measurable improvements in food and nutrition security.
The program was created as a targeted step to advance the food and nutrition security agenda and promote intersectoral action in South Asian countries.
Phase I of SAFANSI was implemented from 2010 to 2015. The program was a catalyst in driving the food and nutrition security agenda among countries in the region and enhancing sensitivity to nutrition issues in the World Bank's various activities in South Asia.
Phase II of SAFANSI began in December 2014 and built on the success of the first phase. The second phase raised awareness and advocacy, built capacity, and sought to stimulate behavior change to improve food and nutrition security through integrated actions.
SAFANSI funding was available to finance activities in individual countries (Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka) or regional activities in two or more of the countries.
As a multi-donor trust fund, SAFANSI was administered by the World Bank, which was responsible for program development, implementation, and monitoring and evaluation. Phase II of SAFANSI was financed by DFID and the European Commission.
Sectors and themes supported by SAFANSI:
agriculture (including livestock, fishing, and forestry) |
water supply and sanitation |
health |
social safety nets |
health, nutrition, and population |
rural policies and institutions |
public administration |
information and communications |
regional integration |
SAFANSI’s goal was to foster cross-cutting actions that will lead to measurable improvements in food and nutrition security. Critical to the success of this work was the commitment of governments and development partners in South Asia,
The program engaged with South Asian policy and decision-makers, civil servants, development partners, and technical experts to achieve a consensus on actions needed.
Since 2010, SAFANSI has benefited from funding from United Kingdom's Department for International Development, the European Commission, and Australia's Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (for the SUNITA program in Nepal 2011). However, the views expressed do not necessarily reflect these departments’ official policies.
BANGLADESH: Dynamics of Rural Growth: Outreach and Dissemination (TF0A1834)
The grant is to inform policies and actions to strengthen and sustain the enabling environment for more rapid growth, and for food and nutrition security in Bangladesh. The study on the Dynamics of Rural Growth, which was financed by SAFANSI I, undertook a comprehensive analysis of the patterns and drivers of rural growth, food security
The study found that:
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TTL: Madhur Gautam
Project dates: 2015 – 2016
BANGLADESH: Leveraging information technology to achieve better nutritional outcomes in the Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT), Bangladesh
This Bank-executed project’s objective is to enhance knowledge and behavioral practices that improve the intake of nutritious foods among women of reproductive age and children under the age of 5 in the Chittagong Hill Tracts. This will be achieved by developing digital content through a participatory process involving community members to promote consumption of nutritious indigenous foods threatened by an increasing influx of nutritionally void packaged food products. Communities will be trained and mentored
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Project dates: 2016 – 2017
BANGLADESH: Capacity Development in Nutrition Surveillance and Research
This project will support the government of Bangladesh in making
TTL: Ziauddin Hyder
Project dates: 2016 – 2019
BANGLADESH: Can Conditional Cash Transfers improve child nutrition and cognitive development?
The project aims to provide a comprehensive assessment of the impact of conditional cash transfers on children’s cognitive development and nutrition outcomes in early ages in Bangladesh. The results of the evaluation will assess and help improve the design of a nutrition-sensitive conditional cash transfer
TTL: Aneeka Rahman
Project dates: 2016 – 2019
BHUTAN: Capacity development and communication for improved nutrition outcomes in rural households
The project will improve dietary diversity and care practices of pregnant and nursing women in remote rural areas in Bhutan which will address malnutrition in the first
TTL: Winston Dawes
Project dates: 2016 - 2019
BHUTAN: Food Security and Agriculture Productivity Project
The objective of this activity is to support
TTL: Winston Dawes
Project dates: 2016 - 2017
INDIA: Technical support to cross-sectoral work on nutrition the North East of India
The primary objectives of this task are to better understand the barriers to improved nutrition and health in North East India and to help state governments develop strategies and programs to address these issues. The program will identify gaps in maternal and child health and nutrition services for disadvantaged communities, and support development of cross-sectoral strategies to combat malnutrition at the community level. This will be done through analytical work (involving both primary and secondary data analysis) to identify gaps and bottlenecks, informing the development of contextual and feasible strategies and technical assistance aimed at improving program design
TTL: Patrick Mullen
Project Dates: 2015 - 2017
INDIA: Burden of Malnutrition for the States of Uttar Pradesh, Nagaland, Uttarakhand, and Meghalaya (Phase I) (TF0A1098)
The objective of this grant is to produce estimates of the burden of malnutrition and disease for four states in India – Uttar Pradesh, Nagaland, Uttarakhand, and Meghalaya – consistent with the estimates and methods used for the overall Global Burden of Disease (GBD) Project. GBD provides tools to quantify levels and trends of health loss due to diseases (including malnutrition), injuries, and risk factors for 187 countries from 1990 to 2010. It is a collaborative project of nearly 500 researchers in 50 countries led by the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) at the University of Washington. Co-financed with the Gates Foundation, the SAFANSI-II project in India is to produce an essential tool for evidence-based nutrition and health policymaking and comparative metrics for different causes of premature death and disability. In this phase, the project is to identify data and networks of collaborators and make preliminary estimates for the four states.
TTL: Ramesh Govindaraj
Project Date: 2015 – 2016
INDIA: Social Observatory - Catalyzing Improved Implementation in Projects to Improve Food and Nutrition Security (TF0A1325)
With SAFANSI-I, Social Observatory (SO) was set up to (a) diagnose how market, government, and behavioral failures affect food and nutrition security (FNS) outcomes, (b) use these diagnoses to improve designs of ongoing rural livelihoods development projects in India, such as Bihar Rural Livelihoods Project (JEEVIKA) and Tamil Nadu Empowerment and Poverty Reduction project, and (c) improve the implementation of these interventions by building adaptive capacity. The objective of SAFANSI-II project is to consolidate the work under SAFANSI-I, to further improve adaptive capacity, while improving the diagnosis of how market and government failures affect food security; supporting an experimentation-based approach to improve program design and implementation for FNS outcomes; taking the SO approach to new program interventions that aim to improve the functioning of the top-down public programs for food and nutrition security in India; and seeding a system of adaptive capacity to catalyze implementation for FNS outcomes in one new,
Thus far, SO has developed innovative tools and techniques, such as FNS participatory-tracking to improve the adaptive capacity of large-scale projects. The tools have helped substantially improve implementation of four targeted rural livelihoods projects in effectively addressing food and nutrition insecurity. SO has also collected primary data, including food prices paid by poor and rich. The team published 11 notes and reports related to Bihar and Tamil Nadu data collection thus far. SO has measured the extent of differences in prices paid by the poor and rich, within the same village, for the same foods, demonstrated how an intervention can change gender norms in a highly patriarchal society, and developed an important new method to allow large numbers of citizens to measure and track their own progress on food and nutrition
There also are 12 articles and briefs about SO on the Bank external websites, and 8 YouTube videos on methodologies and stakeholder interviews. More information is available at the Social Observatory Website.
TTL: Vijayendra Rao
Project Date: 2015 – 2019
INDIA: Technical Support to the Design of Conditional Cash Transfers for Maternal and Child Health and Nutrition in Madhya Pradesh (P162369)
The project will support the state government in determining the overall strategy and design of a conditional cash transfer (CCT) program aimed at improving maternal and child health and nutrition practices and service utilization within the critical 1,000 day period. It will draw on the implementation experience of CCT programs in India, including in Madhya Pradesh, as well as on lessons and best practice from international experience. Technical support will also be provided for piloting the CCT program, through the development of systems required for implementation such as (i) systems for registration of beneficiaries and recording achievement of conditions, (ii) payment systems (iii) operational procedures and manuals (iv) communication and awareness generation (v) monitoring and evaluation systems (vi) strategies for inter-departmental coordination; and (vii) grievance redressal mechanisms. While the state government is expected to finance and lead the implementation of the pilot, continued technical assistance will be provided by the Bank to ensure implementation and monitoring systems developed are working effectively.
Project Date: 2017 – 2019
INDIA: Improved Nutrition Through Milk Micronutrient Fortification – Testing the Business Case under NDSP-India. (P162282)
The project aims to increase household access to micronutrients and enhance the contribution of the dairy sector to improving food and nutrition security of these households in India. This would test and demonstrate the operational, technical and financial feasibility of the production and marketing of Vitamin A- and D-fortified milk through milk unions, as well as build the capacity of the National Dairy Development Board (NDDB) to serve as a national resource center for milk fortification. The proposed project will permit the National Dairy Development Board (NDDB) to:
TTLs: Ashi Kohli Kathuria; Edward William Bresnyan
Project Date: 2016 – 2019
INDIA: Rural Inclusive Growth and Nutrition in Andhra Pradesh
The main objective of this SAFANSI project is to provide technical assistance to monitoring and evaluation activities of agriculture and nutrition linkages interventions of the Rural Inclusive Growth (RIG) project in Andhra Pradesh (AP) and Telangana.
TTLs: Parmesh Shah
Project Date: 2016 – 2017
INDIA: Tamil Nadu Nutrition House Pilot Program
The project development objective (PDO) of the impact evaluation is to estimate the causal effect of the Nutrition House Pilot Project in Tamil Nadu on nutrition indicators, and explore whether access to nutritious meals and services in the project areas result in increased nutrition outcomes. A key intervention will seek to prepare nutrient-dense snacks and foods out of goods that are easily perishable or underutilized and that, in some cases, would otherwise be wasted. The transformation of the recovered food waste into nutrient-dense snacks and foods will take place at the Nutrition House, and will be prepared by beneficiaries (students) of the Chefs Certification Program. The Nutrition House will host a restaurant-school that will offer workshops on nutrition and the benefits of underutilized foods, as well as on traditional recipes. The pilot will benefit communities by addressing the issue of food loss and waste through innovation and technology while promoting safe and nutritious foods and services.
TTL: Izabela Leao
Project dates: 2018 – 2019
INDIA: Enterprise Development for Nutrition and Sanitation, Bihar, India
This program will support (i) the design of a strategy for the development of nutrition and sanitation social enterprises in Bihar; and (ii) provide technical assistance for implementation of the same, contributing to improving access of nutrition and sanitation products and services to households as part of the recently approved Bihar Transformative Development Project (USD 415 million) in the state.
TTLs: Mohini Kak, Vinay Kumar Vutukuru and Mio Takada
Project dates: 2017 – 2019
INDIA: Nutrition Parliament: Parliamentarians and State Legislators for Collective Action
The objective of this project is to improve the understanding of nutrition as a development issue among the Parliamentarians and State Legislators in India in order to seek
TTL: Ashi Kohli Kathuria
Project dates: 2017 – 2019
NEPAL: Impact Evaluations of the Agricultural and Food Security Project (AFSP) and Sunaula Hazar Din (SHD) Community Action for Nutrition Project (TF0A0635)
The project is to undertake impact evaluations (IEs) for the Agricultural and Food Security Project (AFSP) and the SAFANSI I-funded Sunaula Hazar Din (SHD) Community Action for Nutrition Project. The AFSP IE focuses on the impact of the technology adoption and nutrition enhancement components at mid-term. The IE is to measure the impact of (a) AFSP’s agricultural initiatives on yield, income, and nutritional practices, including nutrition-specific interventions, such as kitchen gardens and backyard poultry and (b) Behavior Change Communication (BCC), particularly its adoption of gender and social context. AFSP is financed by the Global Agriculture and Food Security Program (GAFSP), which also finances baseline and
SHD IE is to assess, through a household survey,
TTL: Susumu Yoshida
Project Date: 2015 – 2018
NEPAL: Qualitative Assessment and Knowledge Enhancement of Community-Driven Nutrition Project (TF0A1374)
The objective of this grant is to improve the evidence base and understanding of the design and process of Sunaula Hazar Din (SHD, Community Action for Nutrition Project) at the community level. Paying special attention to gender and social inclusion perspectives (e.g., low caste and ethnic minorities), the evidence on the nutritional outcomes and social dynamics generated by the study will provide strong design and implementation inputs to SHD, and to dialogues on health and nutrition improvement in Nepal. Key research questions include how goals are selected at the community level; what roles coaches play in achieving goals; how having a female leader influences the RRA outcomes; how the communities perceive success and failure of the initiatives; and why certain groups succeed and others fail. Given the mega-earthquake that hit the country in April 2015, the study questions and methodologies will take into account the influence the earthquake might have had on the approach and intended outcomes.
TTL: Kaori Oshima
Project Date: 2015 – 2018
NEPAL: Women’s Enterprising Initiatives to Ensure Community Food and Nutrition Security in Upland Nuwakot (TF0A2708)
The grant aims to increase opportunities for improved food and nutrition security of targeted communities in Nuwakot district through winter food production, and training seed banks, food preservation, and food enterprise development/management. Prior to the earthquake, Nuwakot was categorized as minimally food insecure with a pre-existing global acute malnutrition prevalence of 9.9%. However, after the earthquake, the district was classified as one of the most food insecure districts in Nepal, because agricultural production has been interfered by displacement of families, damage to land, and disruption of livelihood supply chains. The project is implemented by the Federation of Business and Professional Women in Nepal (FBPWN), with support from the Tarayana Foundation in Bhutan, which includes a (a) donation of 1,000 packs of germinated winter vegetable seeds, (b) training farmers, mostly women, in organic vegetable production, (c) training the farmers in community food bank management, food preservation techniques, and nutrition/meal design and preparation education, and (d) providing business development services to producers to create sustainable food enterprises that can continue to serve local markets.
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Project dates: 2016 – 2017
PAKISTAN: Adolescent nutrition in Pakistan: identifying opportunities and setting priorities
The objective of this work will be to provide concrete policy and program options to improve adolescent nutrition in Pakistan, based on evidence of the magnitude and distribution of nutrition problems, their determinants and potential factors that could facilitate or impede progress.
TTL: Inaam Ul Haq
Project dates: 2017 – 2018
PAKISTAN: Technical design support for nutrition focused Conditional Cash Transfer (CCT) pilot rollout in Punjab
This project aims to improve the demand and uptake of health and nutrition services and promote key behaviors conducive to positive nutritional outcomes in Punjab pilot districts. The proposed activities will support Punjab Social Protection Authority (PSPA). The technical support will ensure that the design parameters and processes meet the technical standards along the results chain.
TTLs: Sohail Saeed Abbasi and Yoonyoung Cho
Project dates: 2017 – 2019
PAKISTAN: Tracking Nutrition Expenditure in Pakistan
This project will aim to establish a monitoring system for nutrition-specific and nutrition-sensitive public expenditure and embed it within the public financial management systems in Pakistan. The project will work closely with the Controller General of Accounts, the institutional custodian of the public financial management system, to establish a system of tracking nutrition-specific and nutrition-sensitive expenditure.
TTL: Akmal Minallah
Project dates: 2017 – 2019
REGIONAL: Costing and Cost-Effectiveness Analysis of Scaling up Nutrition-related Interventions in the South Asia Region (TF0A2323)
The overall development goal of this project is to strengthen the allocative and technical efficiencies for country-led planning, budgeting, and prioritization of nutrition interventions through health, nutrition, population, social protection, water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH), education, and agriculture and rural development programs in up to 5 high-burden countries in South Asia (i.e. Afghanistan, Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka), and thereby enhance the impact of national and international investments. The SAFANSI-II project finances costing analyses, including (a) costing for the scale-up of nutrition interventions, (b) performing cost-effectiveness analysis (CEA) comparing different scale up scenarios (e.g. scale up by intervention package, scale-up by sub-region/state), (c) building capacity by training national staff in the methodology and the use of the costing and CEA tools to identify the most effective interventions for scale-up, and (d) disseminating the findings at the appropriate national, regional and global fora, with a focus on facilitating south to south exchanges. The project is co-financed by UNICEF and Gates Foundation.
TTL: Meera Shekar
Project Date: 2015 – 2017
REGIONAL: Addressing critical failures of Infant and Young Child Feeding (IYCF) in South Asia
With the overall purpose of strengthening Infant and Young Child Feeding (IYCF) in South Asia, the project will address two critical failures of IYCF in selected countries in two ways. First, it will identify the challenges, barriers to and facilitating factors for appropriate IYCF behaviors, programs and policies, particularly as they relate to both (1) working women engaged in both formal and informal sectors and living in urban settings; and (2) the
TTL: Ashi Kohli Kathuria
Project dates: 2017 – 2019
SRI LANKA: Integrating Nutrition Promotion and Rural Development (
The grant development objective of the INPARD program is to investigate whether a multi-sectoral rural development program can be utilized to deliver nutrition promotion intervention within rural Sri Lanka and whether this is effective in improving nutrition outcomes. Building on social capital developed by a Bank-financed
The SAFANSI II program finances a follow-up impact evaluation and dissemination activities. It is envisaged that the evaluation, composed of household survey and multi-stakeholder focus group discussions, is to build evidence to demonstrate linkages between health and nutrition outcomes and their upstream determinants, such as socioeconomic context, education, occupation, and income. The team completed data collection, and data are being analyzed. The results will be shared at two regional workshops with multi-sectoral teams (consisting of consists of stakeholders from health, agriculture, rural development, administration, education, fisheries and Samurdhi (poverty eradication national program), amongst others), and presented at a South Asian Symposium later in 2016.
Additionally, the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) agenda has highlighted the promotion of health by preventing non-communicable diseases (NCDs) through SDG three. The
TTL: Ulrich K. H. M. Schmitt, Seenithamby Manoharan
Project Date: 2015 – 2017
SRI LANKA: Building Effective Nutrition Communication through Partnerships: Addressing Estate Sector Nutrition Issues (TF0A3103)
The grant (a) creates an
TTL: Kumari Vinodhani Navaratne and Dilinika Peiris
Project dates: 2016 – 2017 (completed)
SRI LANKA: Improving Nutrition through Modernizing Agriculture in Sri Lanka (INMAS)
The project will assess whether a larger agriculture project could be integrated into multi-sectoral interventions and to improve the nutritional status of individual farmers, their families
Project dates: 2017 – 2019
SRI LANKA: Learning from “champions”: Qualitative study on infant and young child feeding and caring practices in Sri Lanka’s estate sector
The objective is to identify successful behaviors of positive deviants that could enable estate sector residents to achieve better nutrition outcomes. While the majority of nutrition studies and interventions tend to focus on problems and barriers that prevent children from reaching their full potential, the proposed positive deviance (PD) project will enable the key stakeholders to: (i) identify successful adaptive behaviors that exist in the target estate communities; and (ii) design (and subsequently implement) strategies and programs that promote their adoption by the target population.
TTL: Yi-Kyoung Lee
Project dates: 2017 – 2019
Last Updated: Apr 27, 2017
SAFANSI has supported cutting-edge research on the intersection between food and nutrition security throughout South Asia. Explore SAFANSI research papers, reports, policy notes, and videos below.
Program Documents
Annual Reports: 2017-2018 l 2016-2017 | 2015-2016 | 2014-2015 | 2013-2014 | 2012-2013
SAFANSI: The South Asia Food and Nutrition Security Initiative
Food for Thought: Incorporating SAFANSI into Different Sectors
Nourishing Ideas for Action: The South Asia Food and Nutrition Security Initiative 2010-18
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Since 2010, SAFANSI has benefited from funding and support from:
High Impact and Underrepresented Nutrition Senstive Food Systems in South Asia
5 Takeaways- Lessons Learned Day 1 and 2
Presentations
EAT-Lancet Report on Healthy Diets from Sustainable Production – Global Perspective, Dr. Fabrice DeClerck, EAT/Bioversity International
Challenges and options in relation to undernutrition in South Asia, Dr. Felipe Dizon, The World Bank
Nutrition Decade- infographic, UNSCN
The Blue Food Assessment, Dr. Fabrice DeClerck, EAT/Bioversity International
Locally Produced Fish-based RUTF, Mr. Lyndon Paul, Danish Care Foods & Vissot
Extrusion, Innovation, and an Environmentally Sound & Sustainable Engine for Feeding the World, Mr. Jesse Mitchell, Wenger Manufacturing
How Aquatic Foods Can Nourish Nations leaving no one behind,Dr. Pawan Patil, The World Bank
Future Smart Food: Rediscovering Hidden Treasures of Neglected and Underutilized Species for Zero Hunger in Asia, Dr. Xuan Li, FAO Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific
All About the Good Stuff in Vegetables, Dr. Ray-yu Yang and Dr. Pepijn Schreinemachers, World Vegetable Center
Animal Sourced Foods in South Asia: Nutrition Benefits & Economic Challenges, Dr. Derek Headey, The International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
Building Partnerships for a Healthy Asia, Ms. Sabeera Ali, Food Industry Asia
Public-Private Partnerships & Collaboration for High Impact Nutrition Sensitive Food Systems, Mr. Mahesh Sharma, Anamolbiu Pvt. Ltd. Seed Company, Nepal
DSM partnerships for nutrient- dense food in India & Bangladesh, Ms. Aakanksha Nayyar, DSM
Watch Video: Wenger Manufacturing
Putting the Lens on the Consumer in Nutrition-Sensitive Agriculture and Food Systems in South Asia
Agenda
Presentations
SAFANSI Overview and presentation of research
Dr. Dhushyanth Raju, Lead Economist, World Bank
The diets of young children in South Asia: making the case to improve dietary diversity
Dr. Harriet Torlesse, Regional Nutrition Advisor, UNICEF Regional Office for South Asia
Patterns and Trends in Consumer Demands for Nutritious Foods
Ms. Sunniva Bloem, Research Economist, FAO Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific
How can we make healthy food available for the poor? – Case of Pakistan
Dr. Aamer Irshad, Chief, Food and Agriculture, Planning Commission, Government of Pakistan
Improving diets in an era of food market transformation: challenges and opportunities for engagement between the public and private sectors
Mr. Ivan Kent, Deputy Director, Global Panel on Agriculture and Food Systems for Nutrition (GloPan)
Food Safety and Regulations around Consumer Demand
Mr. Steven Bartholomeusz, Policy Director, Food Industry Asia
Food Control System in Bhutan: Experiences and Challenges
Ms. Gyem Bidha, Deputy Chief Laboratory Officer, Bhutan Agriculture and Food Regulatory Authority
Urban food safety in Bangladesh
Mr. Jason Belanger, Country Director - Bangladesh, SNV, and Mr. Mohammad Mahfuzul Hoque (Chairman, Bangladeshi Food Safety Authority)
Finding Entry Points to Engage with the Private Sector
Ms. Ritta Sabbas Shine, Deputy Manager, SUN Business Network
Moving from Agriculture to Food through Biofortification
Dr. M. Khairul Bashar, HarvestPlus Country Manager, Bangladesh, c/o International Rice Research Institute, and Dr. Md Shahjahan Kabir, Director General, Bangladesh Rice Research Institute
Biofortification- Indian success story (pearl millet)
Mr. Ashish Wele, Independent Consultant, previously President of Nirmal Seeds
Crop biofortification – an effective tool for alleviating malnutrition: Indian perspective
Dr. D.K. Yadava, Additional Director General (Seeds), Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR), Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare
Consumer Demand for Fortification: Global Lessons
Mr. Edward Bresnyan, SAFANSI Task Team Leader, World Bank, and
Improved Nutrition through Milk Micronutrient Fortification in India
Mr. Meenesh Shah, General Manager, National Dairy Development Board (NDDB), Mr. Vivek Arora, Senior Advisor, Tata Trusts
Creating consumer demand for fortified foods: examples from Pakistan
Dr. Tausif Janjua, Technical Director Food Fortification, Nutrition International
Agenda
Presentations
Setting the Stage: Progress to Date and Barriers to Multi-sectoral Nutrition at the Policy Level
Melissa Williams, Senior Rural Development Specialist, and Jamie Greenawalt, Operations Officer | WBG
Establishing and Defining Functionality of District Nutrition Coordination Committees in Lao PDR
Peter Newsum, Director, and Mr. Ranjan Shrestha, ENUFF Project | SNV
Nepal Sunaula Hazar Din Project
Dr. Manav Bhattarai | WBG
Sindh Case Study: Subnational Level Experience
Dr. Shereen Mustafa | Government of Sindh
Can Rural Leaders Play a Role? A Case of How Agricultural Workers Lead Research on Women's Work and Nutrition
Noorulain Masood, Director of Research to Action | LANSA
Insights from the Farming System for Nutrition Study in India
Dr. Bhavani RV, Project Manager | LANSA, MSSRF
Advancing a Multi-sector Nutrition Plan, Nepal
Prof. Dr. Geeta Bhakta Joshi, Hon. Member | National Planning Commission, Nepal
SAPLING: Promoting Cooperation Between South Asian countries and the Potential for Upscaling Local and Sub-national Strategies
Dr. Manu Raj Mathur MPH PhD, Senior Research Scientist & Associate Professor | Public Health Foundation of India
South Asia Food and Nutrition Security Initiative, SAFANSI
Jamie Greenawalt, Operations Officer | WBG
SecureNutrition Knowledge Platform
Laura Figazzolo, Consultant | WBG
Scaling Up Nutrition (SUN) Movement
Dr. Alam Khattak and Dr. Patrizia Fracassi | Scaling Up Nutrition (SUN) Movement Secretariat
Addressing the Nutrition Challenge: Leveraging the Institutional Platform of SHG's in Bihar
Dr. Shobha Shetty, Practice Manager | WBG
Maharashtra State, India: Role of the State Nutrition Mission in Strengthening Nutrition Governance
Rajlakshmi Nair, Nutrition Specialist | UNICEF India
Financing of Nutrition Specific Interventions: Implications for Program Decision Making
Dr. Deepika Chaudhery, Nutrition Specialist | WBG
USAID SPRING work in Nutrition Planning and Budgeting
Amanda Pomeroy-Stevens | USAID/SPRING
Investment Framework for Nutrition: Afghanistan Case Study
Michelle Mehta, Consultant | WBG
The Cost of Achieving Nutritional Security and the Cost of Calories in India
Dr. Anjani Kumar and Dr. Avinash Kishore | IFPRI
Budgetary Analysis of Public Sector Development Program in Balochistan, Pakistan 2016-17
Shah Jehan, Chief, Nutrition and Health | Government of Balochistan, Pakistan