Costed Plan for Scaling Up Nutrition : Nigeria
This paper estimates country-specific costs and benefits of scaling up key nutrition investments in Nigeria. Building on the methodology established in the global report scaling up nutrition: what will it cost? Authors first estimate the costs and...
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| Language: | English en_US |
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Washington, DC
2015
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2014/09/24364584/nigeria-costed-plans-scaling-up-nutrition http://hdl.handle.net/10986/21808 |
| Summary: | This paper estimates country-specific
costs and benefits of scaling up key nutrition investments
in Nigeria. Building on the methodology established in the
global report scaling up nutrition: what will it cost?
Authors first estimate the costs and benefits of a
nationwide scale up of ten effective nutrition-specific
interventions. This will require an annual public investment
of $837 million and would yield enormous benefits: over 8.7
million DALYs and 183,000 lives would be saved annually,
while more than 3 million cases of stunting among children
under five will be averted. As it is unlikely that the
Government of Nigeria or its partners will find the $837
million necessary to reach full national coverage, authors
also consider five potential scale-up scenarios based on
considerations of burden of stunting, potential for impact,
resource requirements and capacity for implementation in
Nigeria. Using cost-benefit analyses authors propose
scale-up scenarios that represent a compromise between the
need to move to full coverage and the constraints imposed by
limited resources and capacities. This analysis takes an
innovative approach to nutrition costing by not only
estimating the costs and benefits of nutrition-specific
interventions, but also exploring costs for a selected
number of nutrition-sensitive interventions implemented
outside of the health sector. We identify and cost four
candidate nutrition-sensitive interventions with impact
potential in Nigeria, including bio-fortification of
cassava, aflatoxin control, school-based deworming, and
school-based promotion of good hygiene. Overall, these
findings point to a candidate list of nutrition-sensitive
approaches that represent a cost-effective approach to
reducing child malnutrition in Nigeria. Moving forward,
these results are intended to help guide decision makers as
they plan future efforts to scale-up action against
malnutrition in Nigeria and develop nutrition financing
plans that bring to bear resources from the health, social
protection, education, and agriculture sectors. |
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