Adequate nutrition and care during early childhood is essential towards ensuring that every child grows and develops holistically. Therefore, it becomes critical to strengthen the coverage, continuity...
Fortification is one of the globally recognized, safe and cost-effective approaches to address vitamin, mineral and nutrient deficiencies amongst populations. The process of fortification involves del...
As a warm breeze rustles the bamboo stalks outside her hut, Rekha sits inside and lovingly holds her new-born daughter close, to feed her. Recalling the instructions given by her village’s ASHA just t...
Thirty-seven kilometres away from the district headquarters of Keonjhar in Odisha, nestled amidst hills and thickets, lies the village of Jamudiha. This community is home to Bharati Juanga, a 17-year-...
The purpose of this guide is to describe how to design and carry out a social mobilization program to create demand and increase participation during immunization campaigns and routine immunizations, ...
While working together in our joint endeavor towards a well-nourished India, we must ensure that our programmes are equitable. The causal framework of malnutrition recognises that, in addition to adeq...
Under the leadership of the national government of India, Anemia Mukt Bharat (AMB) was launched in 2018. Since then, state and district administrative bodies have been playing a pivotal role in implem...
Evidence suggests that every additional USD 1 invested in early childhood development can yield a return in economic and social benefits of between USD 6 and USD 17.1 Learnings from successful ECD int...
In our collective mission to ensure every child receives the vital nutrition needed for optimal growth towards a healthy future; it is crucial to facilitate the development of effective nutrition poli...