Guide/Manual
May 09 2022
Strengthening Maternal Nutrition in India: An operational guide to facilitate the integration of maternal nutrition into existing services at the community and facility level
This operational guide assists block, district, and state health and Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS) officials in India in planning, managing, and implementing maternal nutrition programs.
Journal article
Feb 16 2022
Specificity Matters: Unpacking Impact Pathways of Individual Interventions within Bundled Packages Helps Interpret the Limited Impacts of a Maternal Nutrition Intervention in India (Kachwaha S, Nguyen PH, et al, 2022, Nutrients)
This study found that systems-strengthening efforts improved maternal nutrition interventions in antenatal care, but gaps remained, and further that taking an intervention-specific perspective to the program impact pathway analysis in this package of services was critical to understand how common
Journal article
Dec 07 2021
Gaps in the Implementation and Uptake of Maternal Nutrition Interventions in Antenatal Care Services in Bangladesh, Burkina Faso, Ethiopia and India (Sanghvi T., 2021. Maternal & Child Nutrition)
This paper demonstrates that maternal nutrition intervention (MNI) coverage was consistently lower than antenatal care (ANC) coverage in Bangladesh, Burkina Faso, Ethiopia, and India, despite ANC being the largest global platform to deliver MNI.
Journal article
Nov 01 2021
Screening and management options for severe thinness during pregnancy in India
This paper answers research questions on screening and management of severe thinness in pregnancy, approaches that may potentially work in India, and what more is needed for implementing these approaches at scale.
Journal article
Oct 13 2021
Maternal diets in India: gaps, barriers, and opportunities (Nguyen PH., 2021. Nutrients)
This study assesses maternal nutrition, and the enablers, barriers, and current policy and program strategies to improve dietary patterns and intakes.
Toolkit
Sep 28 2021
Infant and Young Child Feeding Message Toolkit
With the support and guidance from key Infant and Young Child Feeding and Maternal Nutrition partners, Alive & Thrive, UNICEF, and WeCan jointly developed this set of 11 cards as part of an IYCF Message Toolkit.