In 2015, Maximising the Quality of Scaling Up Nutrition (MQSUN) conducted a targeted review of the current research on maternal and child overweight and obesity to understand the current situation…
In 2015, Maximising the Quality of Scaling Up Nutrition (MQSUN) provided support to the United Kingdom's Department for International Development (DFID) to review the current scale of urbanisation and nutrition…
Pakistan has experienced inconsistent advocacy and political ownership for multisectoral nutrition, which has resulted in a weak enabling environment. As well, challenges with decentralisation and low capacity of government staff…
Bangladesh has had difficulty aligning nutrition programming with context-specific underlying causes of malnutrition and scaling up high-quality nutrition services through uncoordinated governance structures at all levels. Maximising the Quality of…
The United Kingdom’s Department for International Development (DFID) provides support to the Zambian government based on their national development plans and the UK’s poverty reduction, nutrition and human resources capacity priorities. DFID…
This policy brief provides an overview of the key findings and recommendations from the ‘Impact Evaluation of the DFID Programme to Accelerate Improved Nutrition for the Extreme Poor in Bangladesh’.…
The United Kingdom's Department for International Development's (DFID) Programme to Accelerate Improved Nutrition for the Extreme Poor in Bangladesh (2013-2016) aimed to improve nutrition outcomes for children, pregnant women, mothers…
This guidance note focuses on the basic requirements for effective multisectoral planning towards common nutrition results. The process involves determining common pathways for sectoral strategies and aligning sectoral plans to nutrition targets.…
The development of a common results framework (CRF) is a complex process which includes but is not limited to: agreeing on common goals with sectoral partners; development of operational plans;…
This report examines the categorisation of nutrition budget line items prepared by countries, and analyses it across the five key sectoral domains identified in the 2014 Global Nutrition Report (health,…
