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The IGNIT3 project will focus on helping to improve the nutrition of children, adolescent girls and women, who are disproportionally affected by malnutrition.
Integration of nutrition into BRAC programs
2015 - 2017
Together with BRAC, our research adds needed evidence used to determine which actions should be taken to strengthen nutrition integration into multiple sectors.
Breaking barriers to effective nutrition interventions
Integrating nutrition-specific and nutrition-sensitive interventions across sectors is a widely endorsed strategy to ensure sustainable improvements in nutrition among women, adolescents, and children.
However, there is insufficient evidence to determine which actions should be taken to strengthen the evidence-base regarding barriers to effective integration.
Integrating nutrition into multi-sector programs through BRAC
In collaboration with BRAC, Nutrition International proposed generating evidence on how to systematically integrate nutrition into multi-sector programs by:
BRAC is committed to alleviating poverty by empowering the poor through its many programs in areas including economic development, public health, education, community empowerment, and agriculture and food security.
BRAC would use the results of this project to integrate a package of nutrition interventions for adolescent girls into Bangladesh secondary schools as well as its existing programs.
Our research to identify barriers to adolescent nutrition in Bangladesh informed the design of a model and the creation of the How to integrate nutrition into multi-sector programs manual. This research included:
The Impact
A manual for nutrition integration
This project developed a planning methodology to systematically integrate nutrition into multiple platforms of BRAC – the largest NGO in the world – to reach adolescent girls across Bangladesh. A manual developed through this research was also used to integrate nutrition into Amref programs in eight African countries. Published results of the study helped to fill the evidence gap around adolescent girls’ perceptions about their own health and nutrition, and how those perceptions should shape interventions.