Introduction to Transform Nutrition Research Programme Consortium
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Research Programme Consortium
Global Burden of Child Stunting(millions, under-fives, 2008)
Conceptual Framework: Determinants and Interventions
BreastfeedingComplementary feedingVitamin AZincHygiene
INSTITUTIONS
POLITICAL & IDEOLOGICAL FRAMEWORK
ECONOMIC STRUCTURE
RESOURCESENVIRONMENT, TECHNOLOGY, PEOPLE
Health
Interventions
Immediate causes
Underlying causes
Basic causes
AgriculturePoverty reductionIncome generationEducationSocial protectionHealth systems strengtheningWomen’s empowerment
Adapted from 990Source: Ruel, SCN News 2008 UNICEF 1
Water / SanitationHealth services
Maternal and childcare practices
Access to food
Food / nutrient intake
Transform Nutrition Consortium Partners
International Food Policy Research Institute
Institute for Development Studies
International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh
Public Health Foundation of India
Save the Children
University of Nairobi
Focus countries
• India• Bangladesh• Kenya• Ethiopia• Nepal, Vietnam,
Nigeria, Zimbabwe (outer ring)
Transform Nutrition’s Theory of Change
Developing and sustaininga robust enabling
environment
Improved capacity to maximise nutrition sensitivity
of indirect interventions
Actionable evidence on scaling direct
interventions
PURPOSEUnlock puzzles to
transform thinking and action on nutrition
Strong network of nutrition champions
Increased profile of nutrition in public
policy through communication
processes
Accelerated reduction in undernutrition
Nutrition moved higher up development agenda
Transformed thinking and action for
undernutrition reduction
OUTCOMES
OUTPUTS
Core Research Pillars / Questions
1. How can direct nutrition-specific interventions targeted to the “window of opportunity” be appropriately prioritized, implemented, scaled up and sustained in different settings?
2. How can indirect interventions (social protection, agriculture, and women’s empowerment) have a greater impact on improving nutrition?
3. How can an enabling environment be promoted, and existing and enhanced political and economic resources be used most effectively to improve nutrition?
4. Cross-cutting themes: governance, inclusion, fragility
Transform Nutrition’s Research FrameworkScaling up
nutrition-specific actions effectively
Making indirect interventions more nutrition-sensitive
Promoting an enabling environment for
nutrition
Governance Weak incentives, institutions and infrastructure can undermine scaling up.
Weak commitment and coordination capacity to realize win-win solutions
Low issue salience, weak leadership from state and civil society and lack of accountability mechanisms make environments unsupportive
Inclusion
Gender, economic, caste, ethnic, geographic factors exclude large population groups from direct services
Social exclusion undermines efforts to reduce disparities in, and improve status of, underlying preconditions for nutrition security.
Social exclusion not recognized or prioritized by policy actors
Crisis and Fragility
Political conflict, natural disasters, famine-proneness all affect access, scalability, impact and sustainability of direct interventions.
Political conflict, natural disasters, famine-proneness threaten underlying preconditions for nutrition security (food security, access to water and health services, caring capacity)
Stakeholders lack the ability to track nutritional status under rapidly shifting and unpredictable situations. Shocks in fragile contexts often have long tails in the absence of awareness of the consequences of undernutrition.
Transform Nutrition’s Focal Areas
Research PillarsDirect (scaling)
Indirect (leveraging)Environment (enabling)
Cross-cutting themesGovernance,
Inclusion and Fragility
GeographySub-Saharan Africa
(Ethiopia, Kenya, Nigeria, Zimbabwe)
& South Asia (Bangladesh, India, Nepal,
Vietnam)
Functional competenciesCommunications, Capacity,
Development and M & E
Governance / organogram
Governance and management
• 6 partner organizations (Consortium Steering Group)• 4 focal countries, 4 outer ring countries• CEO, two Research Directors, Communications Manager, Operations
Coordinator• Research pillar leads• Cross-cut “watchdogs”• Working groups
– Capacity strengthening– Communications– M&E, impact assessment
• Consortium Advisory Group (CAG)• DFID
Research uptake / communications
• Research uptake strategy• Engagement with stakeholders/
recruiting champions• National communications officers• Communications Working Group• Stakeholder and audience mapping• Web portal, e-newsletter
Thank you
www.transformnutrition.org
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