1 December 2015
From promises to progress: assessing Nigeria’s nutrition commitments
Published by: ORIE
A report card on governance and community contexts for nutrition interventions, highlighting next steps in tackling child malnutrition.
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1 December 2015
Published by: ORIE
A report card on governance and community contexts for nutrition interventions, highlighting next steps in tackling child malnutrition.
1 October 2015
Published by: ORIE
This summary highlights findings and recommendations from operation research on a Community-Based Management of Acute Malnutrition (CMAM) programme in northern Nigeria. The study analysed the perceived benefits of CMAM; reasons for beneficiaries not defaulting from the programme; challenges of accessing CMAM services; the workloads and motivation of health workers and community volunteers; and wh
1 September 2015
Published by: ORIE
Gender inequality and child mortality, morbidity and malnutrition are inextricably linked. Data collected in ORIE’s research and evaluation studies throw light on the links between the low status and autonomy of women, low uptake of nutrition services, and poor child health outcomes, in four states of Northern Nigeria.
1 August 2015
Published by: ORIE
How will greater gender equality contribute to better child health and nutrition in Northern Nigeria? Using ORIE data collected in Jigawa, Katsina, Kebbi and Zamfara this infographic makes a convincing argument that greater decision-making power and control over resources for women can translate into better health and nutrition outcomes for children and their mothers.
19 June 2015
Published by: ORIE
This two page briefing provides an overview of the work of the DFID-funded Working to Improve Nutrition in Northern Nigeria programme, which is seeking to improve the nutritional status of over 6 million children across five northern states, and its independent Operations Research and Impact Evaluation component.
Future Health Systems is a research consortium working to improve access, affordability and quality of health services for the poor.
This BRIDGE Cutting Edge Programme on Gender and Food Security makes the case for a new, gender-aware understanding of food security, arguing that partial, apolitical and gender-blind diagnoses of the problem of food and nutrition insecurity is leading to insufficient policy responses and the failure to realise the right to food for all people.
13 October 2014
The Scaling Up Nutrition (SUN) movement was launched in 2010 to reinvigorate efforts to address undernutrition globally. It brings together a diverse group of stakeholders to strengthen political commitments and improve accountability by providing a platform for collective action in which governments, civil society organisations (CSOs), businesses, donors and the United Nations can work together.
27 August 2014
Published by: ORIE
On the morning of Tuesday 29 April 2014, around 70 stakeholders discussed how to tackle undernutrition in Northern Nigeria, including staff from state and federal government, multilateral agencies, Nigerian research institutions, and domestic and international non-governmental organisations.
18 July 2014
Published by: ORIE
This report presents the findings from the baseline survey of the quantitative impact evaluation of the Working to Improve Nutrition in Northern Nigeria (WINNN) Programme interventions in Northern Nigeria.