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Adolescent girls are viewed as a key demographic group to target for successfully breaking the intergenerational transmission of poverty in developing countries. Unfortunately, for many teenage girls in developing countries, adolescence entails a fleeting transition from childhood to adulthood,...
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Under nutrition levels in Lao PDR remain among the highest in the world, despite both rapid economic growth and a … significant decline in poverty over the past years. Concerns about the slow progress in reducing under nutrition have triggered … intense policy discussion and several analytical reports have been produced over the last few years on the Lao PDR nutrition …
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-Saharan Africa has been solid and has supported improvements in nutrition outcomes and poverty rates.Despite some relative gains …
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'Integrating Nutrition Promotion and Rural Development' (INPARD) is a multisectoral approach to delivering nutrition … development programme could be employed to deliver improved human nutrition outcomes - an objective not typically included in …
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-nourished population. Deficiencies in nutrition and health, lower levels of education, lack of language skills in the national language … gap in nutrition and economic well-being …
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of Health and Family Welfare (DoHFW) requested technical support for better understanding nutrition determinants and … objectives are to better understand the barriers to improved nutrition and health in Nagaland and to help the state government to … about the determinants of malnutrition in North East India; (ii) to identify gaps in maternal and child health and nutrition …
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With Malawi's economic growth recovering and single digit inflation, the Government has a keyopportunity to rein in fiscal deficits and reduce domestic debt. If it can better control domestic debt levels, the Government could increasingly move towards creating the conditions for the...
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This study aims to assess the public financing for nutrition in Sri Lanka. The primary purpose is to understand the … size and share of public investments in nutrition relative to the overall level of public expenditure in the country …. Second, it discusses whether the nutrition interventions in which the government budget is spent are in line with the global …
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National Multi-Sector Nutrition Policy, which promote a range of evidence-based interventions to improve maternal and child …
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This Multisectoral Nutrition Assessment assessed the nutrition situation amongst residents of the estate sector …, identified the main causes of nutritional deficiencies, as well as gaps in the provision of key nutrition-related services. The … Policy and Plan, and thereby implement effective multisectoral nutrition and health interventions. To this end, the two main …
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