The South Asia Food and Nutrition Security Initiative (SAFANSI) is an innovative, flexible trust fund that has had an outsized impact on advancing regional nutrition policy, research, and services since...
The South Asia Food and Nutrition Security Initiative (SAFANSI) was created in 2010 to foster actions that lead to measurable improvements in food and nutrition security (FNS). Through flexible small grants...
During this reporting period, SAFANSI-II had an active portfolio of 27 projects, including 4 just-in-time (JIT) activities, for a total of USD 9.46 million. India remained the largest recipient (35 percent...
Female and childhood malnutrition rates in the Islamic Republic of Pakistan are among the highest in the world. The effects of malnutrition are generally divided into stunting, which refers to height deficit...
An epidemiological transition is well underway in India, in common with countries throughout much of the developing world. The transition refers to a change in the prevailing causes of illness (morbidity)...
Intuitively, agricultural and rural development projects may seem to bear straightforward impacts on human nutrition. Yet nutrition outcomes are not traditionally within the purview of those who plan and...
Development interventions like projects supported by the World Bank all intend to have impacts that outlast the life of the projects themselves. Establishing a useful source of information that project...
The project in question is the Bihar Rural Livelihoods Project, locally known as Jeevika, translated variously as livelihoods or livelihoods expansion. Jeevika is a very large-scale, community-based poverty...
The Targeted Rural Initiatives for Poverty Termination and Infrastructure (TRIPTI) project began in Orissa in 2009.It is a participatory livelihoods project based on community mobilization and institution...
The study was nested within a larger randomized controlled trial with funding from the World Bank’s South Asia Food and Nutrition Security Initiative (SAFANSI), measuring the benefits of water quality...
The state of Madhya Pradesh lags behind the country in key health and nutrition indicators. While the India average for percentage of underweight children is 47, in Madhya Pradesh it is 60 percent. The...
'Integrating Nutrition Promotion and Rural Development~^!!^ (INPARD) is a multisectoral approach to delivering nutrition-related interventions in rural development programmes in Sri Lanka. Although multisectoral...
While malnutrition affects households across the economic spectrum, the poorest bear the largest burden due to low calorie intake, less diverse diets, high incidence of stunting, as well as underweight...
The prevalence of under-nutrition in Bangladesh remains among the highest in the world. Though there has been significant progress in reducing the incidence of underweight children below 5 years, progress...
According to Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO), about 23 percent of the global population that is routinely hungry - 336 million people are in South Asia. The South Asia food and nutrition security...
Malnutrition among both women and children remains a major health issue in rural Pakistan. They also lack voice in relation to important health and nutritional decisions within their homes, for both themselves...
A critical goal for aid and development agencies is to ensure adequate amounts of food for all. However, the definition of food security acknowledges that the quality of the food is as important to health...
This brief describes a small pilot designed to leverage the women's self-help group platform of a World Bank-supported livelihoods project (that is, a non-health sector project) to: (a) promote positive...
Over the past two decades, Nepal has achieved economic growth and improvements in social and health indicators. However, the poor nutritional status of first, women, manifested in a low body mass index...
Malnutrition is one of India's most serious and persistent problems. While nutrition outcomes across India are poor, they are typically worse in tribal and backward areas. The South Asia food and nutrition...