An exit strategy for a program is a specific plan describing how the program intends to withdraw from a region while assuring that the achievement of development goals is not jeopardized and that further progress toward these goals is made. The goal of an exit strategy is to assure...

Recognizing the increasing reliance being placed on caring practices in large scale nutrition programs, a study was undertaken in the context of one such program, the Bangladesh Integrated Nutrition Project, to examine the effects of women’s time constraints on the successful implementation of...

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During the past fifteen years, there has been a significant increase in efforts to monitor and evaluate large scale nutrition projects. This, in turn, stems from an increased appreciation of the importance of M&E in such projects, and from more stringent demands being made by donors. This paper...

“We Will Never Go Back”, published in 1993, tells the story of nutrition and, more generally, community-based program development in the Iringa Region of Tanzania during the 1980s, and the expansion of this effective programmatic approach to other areas of the country as the Child Survival...

The civil wars in Sudan have resulted in the displacement of roughly 60,000 people in the White Nile State. Internally displaced people (IDP) in Kosti, Sudan face food and nutrition insecurity, as well as poor health and environmental conditions, which are compounded by economic hardships. The...

Two independent cross-sectional studies on early infant feeding behaviors and practices conducted in Bangladesh (1996) and India (1997-98) were unable to find a statistically significant relationship between the time of introduction of complementary foods and the nutritional status of the...

Poverty and food security in most countries are highly heterogeneous phenomena, making it common to find wide spatial variability. Both types and depth of poverty, measured in a variety of ways, vary between and within countries, regions or other geographic and administrative units. Spatial...