SPRING will present its work on nutrition financing at two major international conferences in July 2015. For the last several years, SPRING has worked to develop more accurate estimates of national and sub-national multisectoral nutrition funding commitments in Uganda and Nepal. As part of this work, SPRING developed a novel methodology for evaluating nutrition funding.
A multi-sectoral approach is often thought to be the most effective way to address undernutrition.
Why does financing matter to improving nutrition outcomes? This crucial information can be used to improve planning, advocacy efforts, and implementation of nutrition activities. Watch this video to learn about how SPRING is developing the first comprehensive estimates of what funding is available for nutrition interventions in two countries.
Emergency Nutrition Network, March 2015
In Nepal, four in 10 children are stunted; one in three women and five in 10 children are anemic, and one in 10 children is wasted. Suaahara (“Good Nutrition”) is implementing a multisectoral, multiplatform approach to reducing these problems by promoting better practices at the community and household level.
The District Assessment Tool for Anemia (DATA) is a Microsoft Excel-based tool that has the dual intent to assist in the prioritization of district-level action on anemia, and also to increase awareness of the multi-factorial nature of anemia a
Agrilinks (September 2014)
Nepal, like other Scaling Up Nutrition (SUN) countries, is facing competing demands for time, human resources, and funding within the realm of nutrition programming. The priorities assigned by the international agreements to which Nepal is a signatory (such as SUN, the Millennium Development Goals [MDGs], and others) include a wide array of goals and corresponding targets, many of which are integrated into Nepal's 2013-2017 Multi-Sector Nutrition Plan (MSNP).