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Safeguarding nutrition through multi-systems action in India

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UNICEF India Nutrition & SPSP Section

Updated 15 Jan 2025
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Originally published as part of the WFP and UNICEF led 'Global Resilience Report', this case study highlights UNICEF India's efforts in leveraging robust social protection mechanisms and multi-system action to ensure nutrition for all during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Over the years, India has put in place policy and legislative measures that have brought nutrition and food security to the forefront of the development agenda within a rights-based and inclusive framework. A comprehensive National Nutrition Policy (1993), National Nutrition Strategy (2017), the National Nutrition Mission – POSHAN Abhyaan (2018), and the more recent POSHAN 2.0 (which brings together the Integrated Child Development Scheme (ICDS), POSHAN Abhiyaan, the scheme for adolescent girls, and the national creche programme under one umbrella) – are the key reference points for nutrition programmes across the country. 

India's nutrition-related schemes and programmes are designed to protect and promote food security and nutrition for the most  vulnerable and excluded sections of the population underpinned by the principles of social protection. They aim to reduce inequalities and poverty and are delivered through multiple systems that include health, water and sanitation, education, nutrition, livelihoods, food supplies,  etc

 

UNICEF India Nutrition & SPSP Section

Updated 15 Jan 2025
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