Mainstreaming Nutrition Initiative

Please visit the Mainstreaming Nutrition Initiative's new website at mainstreamingnutrition.org!

The Mainstreaming Nutrition Initiative is a World Bank funded project to catalyze the integration of priority nutrition actions into health sector policies and programs worldwide. It is a collaborative effort among the International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research (ICDDR,B); the Program in International Nutrition at Cornell University and other partners.
 
In the first year of the project, we are reviewing the evidence for integrating nutrition interventions within various maternal, newborn and child health (MNCH) policies and programs.  This will lead to the development of a framework, tools and strategies to facilitate the  mainstreaming process in different countries and different policy and program contexts.  Other project activities in Year 1 include a global review of nutrition interventions led by ICDDR,B and Aga Khan University, which will contribute to the forthcoming Lancet series on nutrition.  A series of reviews on critical issues confronted by nutrition programs has also been commissioned.  The reviews will address such questions as: what are the barriers to accessing health and nutrition services, current issues in growth monitoring and promotion, challenges to scaling up exclusive breast feeding promotion programs, and targeting of supplementary feeding.

If you would like to partner with this initiative, or learn more, please see our contact information.