Globally, an estimated 50 million children aged under 5 years are wasted and 17 million severely wasted [UNICEF, WHO and World Bank, 2016]. India shares about one third of the world’s burden of child ...
The adequacy of women’s nutrition in preconception, pregnancy and post-pregnancy is central to their children’s survival and nutritional status. In India, 47 per cent of adolescent girls aged 15 to 19...
This situation overview is produced by Nutrition Development Partners with support from UNICEF INDIA and Global Nutrition Cluster Technical Alliance. It serves to document and monitor the situation an...
The COVID 19 pandemic continues to pose enormous challenges for humanity. The social and economic costs of pandemic containment and saving lives has been significant all across the globe. The vulnerab...
UNICEF supported Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MoHFW) to undertake the Comprehensive National Nutrition Survey (CNNS)iv in 2016 with the objective to estimate the prevalence of dual burden of...
The COVID-19 pandemic along with its devasting waves have heightened the risk of nutritional vulnerabilities in India through disruption in services, loss of livelihood, increasing food prices and rep...
Kalawati Saran Children’s Hospital (KSCH) is a premier institution for child health services under Ministry of Health & Family Welfare (MoHFW). It was started in 1956 and currently is a part of La...
Indian children have the same growth and development potential as all children worldwide. Evidence shows that a set of proven interventions from conception to age two years – the 1,000 day window of o...
Background: While administrative logjams and capacity gaps in delivering nutrition specific and sensitive interventions in India are known, fiscal constraints to deliver these interventions remain und...