The World Bank has been a leader in nutrition policy analysis, and many of the nutrition projects it has supported have been innovative and successful. But though the Bank has developed the economic justification...
Malnutrition persists in most developing countries. It contributes to the deaths of 3.4 million children annually and reduces the intelligence, health, and productivity of those who survive. Nutrition...
The paper makes an analysis of cooperation between nutrition and community development, and why investing in nutrition is important. It concludes by explaining a number of good reasons for Community Driven...
The Tamil Nadu Nutrition Program (TINP) is one of very few around the world that has reduced malnutrition on a large scale, and over a long period. It did well because it coupled good strategies and strong...
The World Bank has not yet defined the main issues in management and capacity development in nutrition, nor has it developed methodologies for governments and project staff to identify and deal with these...
Thailand's community nutrition program has been the most successful in Asia. This paper looks at what made it work from a management and capacity development point of view. Key lessons are identified in...
The objective of this report is to identify, in collaboration with the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MOHFW), the specific constraints that stand in the way of re-orienting the Family Welfare Program...
This report is a supplement to the main volume (15457) which contains edited versions of background papers on which the latter was based. Both published volumes identify, in collaboration with the Ministry...
The demographic and epidemiological transition which is under way in most developing countries is leading to very significant changes in the pattern of disease. Where in the early stages of the transition...
Most health professionals who have worked in rural areas have had the experience of being supervised badly: the flying visit by a superior who inspects the records, delivers a critical speech, and disappears...
This paper looks at the experience of three large scale outreach programs in India, and attempts to distil some lessons for the design and management of the national Family Welfare and Integrated Child...
Many population, health and nutrition (PHN) programs are designed to elicit behaviour changes in poor people living at the geographic and social peripheries. Few programs specifically target the disadvantaged...
Although the commitment of the Borrower to implementation is widely recognized as one of the key factors affecting project performance, the Bank has developed no systematic approach to analyzing the question...
Since innovations in PHN affect the personal rather than the economic life of the family, adoption of innovations is more threatening to cultural norms; and since the beneficial impact of better practices...
This report is the sixth in an annual series assessing development issues. It reviews recent trends in the international economy and their implications for the developing countries with a special focus...
Management problems in the implementation of rural development are analyzed from a bureaucratic political standpoint. Proposals for management improvement will fail if they do not take account of informal...