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What Can We Learn from Nutrition Impact Evaluations? Lessons from a Review of Interventions to Reduce Child Malnutrition in Developing Countries

This paper reviews recent impact evaluations of interventions and programs to improve child anthropometric outcomes- height, weight, and birth weight-with an emphasis on both the findings and the limitations of the literature and on understanding w...

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Main Author: Independent Evaluation Group
Language:English
Published: Washington, DC: World Bank 2012
Subjects:
ACCESS TO EDUCATION
ACUTE MALNUTRITION
AGE GROUPS
AGED
ANEMIA
BEHAVIORAL OUTCOMES
BLINDNESS
BREASTFEEDING
CAROTENE
CHILD CARE
CHILD DEVELOPMENT
CHILD DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMS
CHILD GROWTH
CHILD MALNUTRITION
CHILD MORTALITY
CHILD NUTRITION
CHILD NUTRITION OUTCOMES
CHILD NUTRITIONAL STATUS
CHILD SUPPORT
CHILD SURVIVAL
CHILDHOOD MALNUTRITION
CHRONIC MALNUTRITION
COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT
COGNITIVE OUTCOMES
COMPLEMENTARY FEEDING
CONDITIONAL CASH TRANSFERS
COPPER
CURATIVE HEALTH CARE
DAY CARE
DECISION MAKING
DETERMINANTS OF MALNUTRITION
DIABETES
DIARRHEA
DIARRHEAL DISEASE
DURATION OF BREASTFEEDING
EARLY CHILD DEVELOPMENT
ENROLLMENT
FLOUR
FOLIC ACID
FOOD AID
FOOD AVAILABILITY
FOOD DISTRIBUTION
FOOD INTAKE
FOOD POLICY
FOOD SUPPLEMENTS
GIRLS
GROWTH MONITORING
HEALTH CARE
HEALTH OUTCOMES
HEALTH SERVICES
HEALTH STATUS
HEIGHT FOR AGE
HIGH BLOOD PRESSURE
HOUSEHOLD BEHAVIORS
HUNGER
HYPERTENSION
IMCI
IMMUNODEFICIENCY
INFANTS
INFECTION
INFECTIOUS DISEASES
INTEGRATED MANAGEMENT OF CHILDHOOD ILLNESS
INTERVENTION
IODINE
IODINE DEFICIENCY
IRON
IRON DEFICIENCY
LBW
LEARNING
LOW BIRTHWEIGHT
MALARIA
MATERNAL MORTALITY
MEASLES
MICRONUTRIENT DEFICIENCIES
MICRONUTRIENT DEFICIENCY
MICRONUTRIENT INTERVENTIONS
MICRONUTRIENT SUPPLEMENTATION
MICRONUTRIENTS
MINERALS
MORBIDITY
MORTALITY
NATIONAL NUTRITION PROGRAMS
NUTRIENTS
NUTRITION
NUTRITION EDUCATION
NUTRITION INTERVENTIONS
NUTRITION PROGRAMS
NUTRITION PROJECTS
NUTRITION SERVICES
NUTRITION STATUS
NUTRITIONAL OUTCOMES
NUTRITIONAL STATUS
OBESITY
PARENTING
PERSONAL HYGIENE
PHYSICAL GROWTH
PREGNANCY
PREGNANT WOMEN
PRESCHOOL CHILDREN
PRESCHOOL EDUCATION
PRIMARY SCHOOL
PUBLIC HEALTH
RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS
RURAL AREAS
SANITATION
SCHOOL FEEDING PROGRAMS
SCHOOL MEALS
SCHOOL-AGE CHILDREN
SCHOOLING
SCHOOLS
SIBLINGS
STUNTING
SUPPLEMENTARY FEEDING
UNDERNUTRITION
UNDERWEIGHT RATES
VITAMIN
VITAMIN A
VITAMIN A DEFICIENCY
VITAMINS
WASTING
WATER SUPPLY
WEIGHT GAIN
WORKERS
ZINC DEFICIENCY
Online Access:http://www-wds.worldbank.org/external/default/main?menuPK=64187510&pagePK=64193027&piPK=64187937&theSitePK=523679&menuPK=64187510&searchMenuPK=64187283&siteName=WDS&entityID=000334955_20101116024950
http://hdl.handle.net/10986/2524
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Summary:This paper reviews recent impact evaluations of interventions and programs to improve child anthropometric outcomes- height, weight, and birth weight-with an emphasis on both the findings and the limitations of the literature and on understanding what might happen in a non-research setting. It further reviews the experience and lessons from evaluations of the impact of the World Bank-supported programs on nutrition outcomes. Specifically, the review addresses the following four questions: 1) what can be said about the impact of different interventions on children's anthropometric outcomes? 2) How do these findings vary across settings and within target groups, and what accounts for this variability? 3) What is the evidence of the cost-effectiveness of these interventions? 4) What have been the lessons from implementing impact evaluations of Bank-supported programs with anthropometric impacts? Although many different dimensions of child nutrition could be explored, this report focuses on child anthropometric outcomes-weight, height, and birth weight. These are the most common nutrition outcome indicators in the literature and the ones most frequently monitored by national nutrition programs supported by the World Bank. Low weight for age (underweight) is also the indicator for one of the Millennium Development Goals.

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