data and evidence to address india's nutrition challenge: poshan's state policy notes and...
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Data and Evidence to Address India’s Nutrition Challenge:
POSHAN’s State Policy Notes and District Nutrition Profiles
Purnima Menon, PhDSenior Research Fellow & Theme Leader for South Asia Nutrition Programs
Program Director, POSHANPoverty, Health and Nutrition Division & South Asia Office, IFPRI
POSHAN is supported by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
2017: An unprecedented time for accelerating nutrition actions in India
Bringing it together
National Nutrition Strategy, with targets
National Nutrition Mission, with budget
Existing landscape of programs
State-level nutrition commitment & interest
New data on nutrition
Improved nutrition in 2022 (and looking
towards 2030)
How to turn commitment
to impact?
POSHAN: a knowledge initiative focused on data & evidence for nutrition
Problem
• Situation of undernutrition and determinants at national and state level
• District-level undernutrition and determinants
Solutions
• Policies
• Programs
• Interventions
The many uses of data
• Harmonizing our understanding of nutrition, its determinants and coverage of programs
• Diagnostic assessments to support priority actions– Geographic and programmatic
• Benchmarking for district, state and national reviews
• Research• And more!
The POSHAN team’s work with the NFHS-4 summary data
State fact sheets
District fact sheets
~70,000 data points
Topic-specific analyses: coverage, stunting drivers, etc.
Trends report
Policy Notes
District Nutrition Profiles
29
640
1Early to mid-2017
Data Notes
2
POSHAN’s Policy Notes on State Nutrition Outcomes, Determinants and Interventions
• Overview of nutrition at the state-level
• Highlights nutrition challenges, progress on determinants and coverage
• Highlights district-variability within state
• Many uses!
POSHAN’s District Nutrition Profiles: 640 districts
• Nutrition outcomes, immediate and underlying determinants and coverage
• Can be used in many ways and by many actors! – A diagnostic tool to understand
the determinants of nutritional outcomes at a local level
– To pinpoint areas for strategic actions/interventions
– To identify areas for deep-dive analysis/research
– To cover nutrition in the local media
– For advocacy– And more…
Priority topics for work with unit-level NFHS-4 data
• Update trend analyses, coverage gap maps and other analytics where indicator definitions need further harmonization across survey rounds.
• In-depth topical analyses focused on:– Decomposition analyses to understand the drivers of change in
several WHA target indicators including stunting, wasting, anemia, and exclusive breastfeeding. • India (overall), and for specific states.
– Determinants of nutrition outcomes (esp. wasting and stunting) and the role of immediate and underlying determinants
– Nutrition coverage-focused analysis focused on inequity, factors associated with current coverage and changes in coverage
– Other topics!
Use of data and knowledge products
• Harmonizing our understanding of nutrition– Critical because the people who
need to act are so many!
• Diagnostic assessments to support priority actions– Geographic and programmatic
• Benchmarking for local reviews• “Baseline” for the National
Nutrition Strategy/Mission and for state nutrition missions
• And more!