Country Reports

Afghanistan Food Security and Nutrition Agenda Strategic Plan

Through a collaborative and country-led process, Maximising the Quality of Scaling Up Nutrition (MQSUN+) technical assistance (TA) to Afghanistan culminated in the validation of the country’s first multisectoral strategic plan for food security and nutrition. In 2018, MQSUN+ initiated the TA to the Afghanistan Food Security and Nutrition Agenda (AFSeN-A) Secretariat for the development of […]

August 19, 2020

Yemen Multisectoral Nutrition Action Plan

Maximising the Quality of Scaling Up Nutrition (MQSUN) and MQSUN+ have provided intermittent TA to Yemen since 2013 towards assessing the nutrition context and multisectoral nutrition planning and prioritisation. Through a highly collaborative and country-led process, this support culminated in the development of Yemen’s first Multisectoral Nutrition Action Plan (MSNAP), as well as an associated […]

Strengthening the Humanitarian-Development Nexus for Nutrition in Ethiopia

This is one of four country case studies on ‘Strengthening the Humanitarian-Development Nexus for Nutrition’. It reviews the type of nutrition programming being implemented in Ethiopia and examines the enabling environment (plans, policies, frameworks, coordination and financing) for appropriate, comprehensive and coherent nutrition programming in a context where acute and chronic nutrition coexist and both […]

June 18, 2020

Strengthening the Humanitarian-Development Nexus for Nutrition in Yemen

This case study on how to strengthen the nutritional impact of humanitarian and development assistance in Yemen offers an overview of the political, economic, humanitarian and nutrition context and explores wider efforts to strengthen the humanitarian-development nexus (HDN), before describing and analysing nutrition programmes in the country. Even before the 2015 outbreak of widespread conflict, […]

Real-Time Learning Review on Nutrition Response in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

The United Kingdom’s Department for International Development (DFID) supports nutrition-related development and humanitarian projects in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), where both acute and chronic malnutrition rates are very high. To strengthen the nutrition response in areas of greatest morbidity and mortality risk, DFID DRC requested Maximising the Quality of Scaling Up Nutrition […]

April 21, 2020

Where Business and Nutrition Meet: Review of Approaches and Evidence on Private Sector Engagement in Nutrition

The United Kingdom’s Department for International Development (DFID) encourages private sector investment in strengthening ‘national and global food systems to make nutritious diets more affordable and accessible to the poor, in particular for women, adolescent girls and children’ and in ‘healthier and more productive workforces […] as part of […] responsible and sustainable growth strategies’ […]

June 15, 2018

Impact Evaluation of the DFID Programme to Accelerate Improved Nutrition for the Extreme Poor in Bangladesh: Final Report

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 and adolescent girls by incorporating a set of nutrition-specific interventions as part of three existing livelihood support programmes in Bangladesh targeting the extreme poor. These […]

June 21, 2016

Mixed Methods Report: 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 aims to improve nutrition outcomes for children, mothers and adolescent girls by integrating the delivery of a number of nutrition-specific (or direct) interventions with the livelihood support provided to extremely poor people by three existing programmes in […]

October 2, 2015

Determinants of Child Undernutrition in Bangladesh: A Literature Review

The United Kingdom’s Department for International Development’s (DFID) Programme to Accelerate Improved Nutrition for the Extreme Poor in Bangladesh aims to improve nutrition outcomes for children, mothers and adolescent girls by integrating the delivery of a number of nutrition-specific (or direct) interventions with the livelihood support provided to extremely poor people by three existing programmes in […]

Baseline Report: 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 aims to improve nutrition outcomes for children, mothers and adolescent girls by integrating the delivery of a number of nutrition-specific (or direct) interventions with the livelihood support provided to extremely poor people by three existing programmes in Bangladesh. […]