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Abstract Digest
February 25, 2015
Abstract Digest on Maternal and Child Nutrition Research – Issue 10
Welcome to the first Abstract Digest of 2015! This issue features commentaries and research articles on maternal nutrition, sanitation, and
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February 3, 2015
POSHAN 2014 Update
Dear friends of nutrition in India, It’s hard to imagine that we’re already in February!  As we launch headlong into
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Implementation Notes
October 29, 2014
Panchayat-Led Nutrition and Daycare Centres—The Fulwari Scheme of Chhattisgarh
Chhattisgarh has a statewide program using community health workers called mitanins. The National Rural Health Mission organizes the payment of
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Implementation Notes
October 29, 2014
Collaboration of Integrated Child Development Services with Self-Help Groups to Decentralize the Supply of Supplementary Feeding at Anganwadi Centers
The Integrated Child Development Services program provides supplementary food to millions of women and young children in India for approximately
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Implementation Notes
October 29, 2014
Toward Improved Nutrition: The Atal Bal Arogya Evam Poshan Mission
Half of the children in Madhya Pradesh under age 5 are stunted and 35 percent are wasted. In an effort
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Implementation Notes
October 29, 2014
A Multisectoral Initiative to Address Nutrition among Children in Remote, Conflict-Affected Zones of Odisha
One of the challenges to address stunting in Odisha is the lack of trained frontline workers to assess and refer
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Implementation Notes
October 29, 2014
The Health Subcenter as an Effective Platform for Coordinated Capacity Building and Supportive Supervision of Frontline Workers
Given the range of frontline staff and their complementary aims, the health subcenter represents an optimal geographical and demographic unit
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Implementation Notes
October 29, 2014
Leveraging the Power of Women’s Groups and Financial Services to Improve Knowledge and Behaviors for Improved Child and Maternal Nutrition
 Microfinance institutions (MFIs), self-help promoting institutions (SHPIs), and their self-help groups (SHGs) reach about 90 million poor women in India,
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Implementation Notes
October 29, 2014
Pustikar Diwas: Convergent Action to Reduce Child Undernutrition in Odisha
In 2009, the Department of Health & Family Welfare and the Integrated Child Development Services began Pustikar Diwas, which is
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