Mainstreaming Nutrition Initiative

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Catalyzing Mainstreaming Strategies

The initiative framework for mainstreaming nutrition interventions into Maternal, Newborn and Child Health (MNCH) policies and programs will catalyze the integration process by assessing those factors that can determine the success of integrating nutrition interventions into MNCH policies and programs. The critical structural factors include:

1. The policy context and political commitment to nutrition;
2. Institutional arrangements, human resources and financial commitment for integrating nutrition interventions into MNCH services;
3. Coverage and quality of implementation of current MNCH services; and
4. Community and household constraints and barriers to health service utilization.

 The initiative will develop tools and approaches to assess these contextual and structural facilitators of the mainstreaming process. In partnership with in-country collaborators, the initiative will facilitate the development of country-specific strategic plans for integrating nutrition into MNCH policies and programs. Through the systematic documentation of these processes, it will generate widely applicable insights on nutrition policy and program development and implementation processes while remaining action-oriented.

Email us at: MainstreamingNutrition@cornell.edu