Women’s empowerment and nutrition An evidence review

November 1, 2013

Women’s empowerment and nutrition: an evidence review, 2013. Full text Mara van den Bold, et al. International Food and Policy Research Institute.  This paper starts by reflecting on the concept and measurement of women’s empowerment and then reviews some of the structural interventions that aim to influence underlying gender norms in society and eradicate gender […]

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WASHAdvocates – WASH & Nutrition: Partnering for a Healthier Future

October 21, 2013

WASHAdvocates – WASH & Nutrition: Partnering for a Healthier Future | Undernutrition is the biggest underlying cause of death in under-five-year-olds in the world and is responsible for 8,000 child deaths each day. For this reason, world leaders and donors are placing increased importance to this global crisis and its solutions.  This past June in […]

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Handwashing before Food Preparation and Child Feeding

October 21, 2013

Handwashing before Food Preparation and Child Feeding: A Missed Opportunity for Hygiene Promotion. Am Jnl Trop Med Hyg, Sept 2013. Nizame FA, Unicomb L, Sanghvi T, Roy S, Nuruzzaman M, Ghosh PK, Winch PJ, Luby SP. International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh, Dhaka, Bangladesh; Alive and Thrive, Dhaka, Bangladesh; Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of […]

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The Intestinal Pathobiome: Its Reality and Consequences Among Infants and Young Children

October 21, 2013

The Intestinal Pathobiome: Its Reality and Consequences Among Infants and Young Children in Resource-Limited Settings. Journal of Infectious Diseases Advance Access, October 9, 2013 Full text E Ryan. It seems that for infants in resource-limited areas, the norm is a chronic state of intestinal inflammation with villous blunting and intestinal leakage and malabsorption, a condition […]

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Effects of early-life exposure to sanitation on childhood cognitive skills

October 21, 2013

Eff ects of Early-Life Exposure to Sanitation on Childhood Cognitive Skills: Evidence from India’s Total Sanitation Campaign, 2013. Full text, pdf Dean Spears and Sneha Lamba Early life health and net nutrition shape childhood and adult cognitive skills and human capital. In poor countries and especially in South Asia widespread open defecation without making use of […]

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Aid for Nutrition: Maximising the impact of nutrition-sensitive interventions

September 25, 2013

Aid for Nutrition: Maximising the impact of nutrition-sensitive interventions, 2013. ACF International. Full text Author: Dr Stephen Spratt, the Institute of Development Studies. Pages 24-25 discuss - Water and sanitation pathways and Water and sanitation interventions An excerpt – So far, limited progress has been made to understand the impact of nutrition-sensitive or indirect nutrition interventions to address […]

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USAID Webinar on Environmental Enteropathy and WASH

September 20, 2013

The very best programs focusing on nutritional intake have only solved 1/3 of the stunting problem, and no nutritional research trial has ever normalized linear growth. Adequate diet is necessary for healthy growth, but is not sufficient. Meanwhile, improved water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) is associated with decreased stunting and has the same average effect […]

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WASHplus Weekly: Focus on WASH & Nutrition

September 20, 2013

Issue 117 – Sept 30, 2013 | Focus on WASH and Nutrition This issue contains some of the most recent studies and resources that discuss the integration of WASH (water, sanitation, and hygiene) with nutrition. Included are a recent webinar on environmental enteropathy, an online tutorial about nutrition programming that has a WASH component, and […]

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Village Sanitation and Children’s Human Capital

September 5, 2013

Village Sanitation and Children’s Human Capital: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment by the Maharashtra Government, 2013. Full text, pdf Jeffrey Hammer, et al. World Bank. Open defecation is exceptionally widespread in India, a county with puzzlingly high rates of child stunting. This paper reports a randomized controlled trial of a village level sanitation program, implemented […]

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Clean, Fed & Nurtured: Joining forces to promote child growth and development

September 5, 2013

Clean, Fed & Nurtured: Joining forces to promote child growth and development: A report on a consultative meeting, 2013. Full text, pdf This report presents the results of a consultative meeting held on May 2-3, 2013 at FHI 360 in Washington DC on the topic Clean, Fed & Nurtured: Joining Forces to Promote Child Growth […]

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