Country Reports

Preventing Undernutrition through Multisectoral Initiatives in Pakistan: A Landscape Analysis

This report provides a landscape analysis as an initial step to develop a multisectoral nutrition intervention in Pakistan. The nutritional situation in Pakistan is a cause for much concern and hitherto intransigent to change. Although the proportion of underweight children under five years has declined from 38% to 32% between 2001 and 2011. During the […]

August 4, 2015

Turning Rapid Growth into Meaningful Growth: Sustaining the Commitment to Nutrition in Zambia

The level of undernutrition in Zambia is high and persistent. The increasing commitment of Zambian and international stakeholders to changing this situation holds out the prospect a real decline in undernutrition over the coming years. In addition, the current strong growth of gross domestic product per capita is potentially a positive driver of future undernutrition decline. […]

October 15, 2014

Impact Evaluation of the DFID Programme to Accelerate Improved Nutrition for the Extreme Poor in Bangladesh, Phase II

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 […]

September 5, 2014

Pakistan Food Fortification Scoping Study

This report examines the potential to scale up micronutrient fortification in Pakistan in order to reduce micronutrient deficiencies. Findings from the 2011 National Nutritional Survey reveal that very little progress has been made with respect to micronutrient deficiencies among women and children in Pakistan, with the exception of gains in iodised salt use and large reductions […]

May 15, 2014

Technical Assistance to Support Pre-inception Activities of the ‘First 1,000 Most Critical Days’ Programme

This report documents key findings from a district gap analysis and planning process for the First 1,000 Most Critical Days Programme (MCDP) in Zambia by strengthening the approach and tools developed for the orientation, gap analysis and development of district plans; supporting the development of nutrition district plans in a selected number of districts; and […]

December 13, 2013

The Political Economy of Undernutrition National Report, Pakistan

This report on the political economy of undernutrition in Pakistan describes research carried out to provide technical assistance to inform the work of stakeholders (including United Kingdom’s Department for International Development (DFID) in Pakistan) committed to addressing undernutrition in Pakistan through an analysis of the political economy around the underlying and basic causes of undernutrition in country. […]

Nutrition Political Economy, Pakistan: Sindh Province Report

This Maximising the Quality of Scaling Up Nutrition (MQSUN) report, prepared by Aga Khan University and the Institute for Development Studies, takes a look at strategic opportunities and barriers for action on undernutrition, particularly for women and children in Sindh Province in the post-devolution context. It assesses underlying contextual challenges pertaining to nutrition, horizontal coordination for nutrition across sectors, […]

August 25, 2013

Nutrition Political Economy, Pakistan: Punjab Province Report

This Maximising the Quality of Scaling Up Nutrition (MQSUN) report, prepared by Aga Khan University and the Institute for Development Studies, takes a look at strategic opportunities and barriers for action on undernutrition, particularly for women and children in Punjab Province in the post-devolution context. It assesses underlying contextual challenges pertaining to nutrition, horizontal coordination for nutrition across sectors, […]

Nutrition Political Economy, Pakistan: Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province Report

This Maximising the Quality of Scaling Up Nutrition (MQSUN) report takes a look at strategic opportunities and barriers for action on undernutrition, particularly for women and children in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province in the post-devolution context. It assesses underlying contextual challenges pertaining to nutrition, horizontal coordination for nutrition across sectors, vertical integration of existing and past nutrition initiatives, funding and […]

Nutrition Political Economy, Pakistan: Balochistan Province Report

This Maximising the Quality of Scaling Up Nutrition (MQSUN) report, prepared by Aga Khan University and the Institute for Development Studies, takes a look at strategic opportunities and barriers for action on undernutrition, particularly for women and children in Balochistan Province in the post-devolution context. It assesses underlying contextual challenges pertaining to nutrition, horizontal coordination for nutrition across […]