Global Reports
The Current State of Evidence and Thinking on Wasting Prevention
This report, prepared by the Emergency Nutrition Network (ENN), presents the findings from a review of published and grey literature produced between 1990 and 2018, as well as consultation with…
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,…
DFID’s Aid Spending for Nutrition 2016
The report expands on previous reports that looked at United Kingdom’s Department for International Development's (DFID) investments between 2010 and 2015, and uses the Scaling Up Nutrition (SUN) Movement’s agreed methodology.Key FindingsDFID…
Constraints and Complexities of Information and Analysis: Data Planning in Famine-risk Countries
This report was commissioned by the United Kingdom’s Department for International Development (DFID) to identify critical short-term gaps in data availability or quality that might be addressed by timely donor action. Between July 2017…
The Aetiology of Wasting
This report, prepared by the Emergency Nutrition Network (ENN), provides a summary of the current state of thinking on wasting prevention. It explores what is known about the physiology of wasting…
DFID’s Aid Spending for Nutrition 2015
Building on previous reviews, this report independently analyses the United Kingdom’s Department for International Development's (DFID) official development assistance (ODA) spending on nutrition-related projects in the year 2015. The research team used…
Analysis of Nutrition-sensitive Budget Allocations: Experience from 30 Countries
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,…
Addressing Undernutrition in the Context of Urbanisation in Low- and Middle-income Countries
Urbanisation presents a set of challenges and opportunities for tackling undernutrition in low- and middle-income countries where the United Kingdom’s Department for International Development (DFID) works. This evidence review considers the scale…
Report on Phase 1 of the Spatial Mapping of Nutrition Programming Project
This report provides output for Phase 1 of the United Kingdom’s Department for International Development's (DFID) spatial mapping of nutrition programming project. The overall project comprises two discrete phases and aims to…
Planning and Costing for the Acceleration of Actions for Nutrition: Experiences of Countries in the Movement for Scaling Up Nutrition
This report is a synthesis of work undertaken by countries in the Movement for Scaling Up Nutrition (SUN). The costed nutrition plans for 20 countries are analysed, looking at the…