The project aims to assess when, where, how amd why mobile phone technology might enable more effective and credible real-time monitoring of nutrition that will lead to more responsive and rapid action for nutrition by governments, donors and civil society.
A key output will be an impact evaluation of the use of mobile phone technology in Indonesia.
Child undernutrition remains one of the most devastating realities in many parts of the world. The use of mobile phone technology may offer innovative opportunities to tackle persistently high levels of child undernutrition.
27 June 2014
IDS Evidence Report 75
Child undernutrition remains devastatingly high in many low- and middle-income countries Poor nutrition in early childhood (often combined with ill health) has been shown to increase the risk for early mortality, can have long-term and often irreversible effects on physical growth, cognitive and...
13 June 2014
Evidence Report 1
Nutrition surveillance – or the systematic and periodic collection of information on nutrition – is vital to the capacity of governments and other agencies to track their progress towards reducing undernutrition, to promoting the accountability of their actions and to improving their ability...
9 May 2013