NATIONAL POLICIES AND STRATEGIC PLANS TO TACKLE UNDERNUTRITION IN INDIA: A REVIEW

This national policy review was undertaken by PHFI as part of the policy landscape assessments under POSHAN. The overall objective of this policy review was to assess the policy environment before building perspectives on knowledge flows and mobilization for better decisionmaking. This was done by appraising the Indian policy landscape in terms of available policy-level enablers for the direct essential actions to tackle undernutrition, and mapping the use of evidence in policy formulation and its presentation so as to better understand the source

This in-depth desk review of 10 national policies and guidelines and 9 strategic documents and reports sought to understand what kind of evidence (using the broad definition of evidence to include facts and information from datasets and surveys, knowledge generated through research and experiential learning at national and global levels, expert advice collated through working groups and task force activities) has been used to design policy and program instruments that are then used for programmatic action on tackling undernutrition. Furthermore, how this evidence has been used and presented in the policy writing and archiving process was also analyzed.

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