Other Supporting Material Burkina Faso Systematic Map to guide decision making Burkina Faso Systematic Map to guide decision-making on the current landscape of research on World Health Assembly indicators in West Africa. The West Africa Region has been one of the slowest in reducing its many burdens of malnutrition. The World Health Assembly’s (WHA) 2025 nutrition targets were developed to track countries’ nutritional situations, and measure… Resource Read More
Reports Unpacking the complexity of improved nutrition in Ghana Two new research initiatives have commenced in Ghana. These are ‘Stories of Change in Nutrition in Ghana’, and ‘Leveraging Food Systems for Improved Nutrition in Ghana’. Both have been initiated by the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). This report provides a summary of a consultative stakeholder meeting held jointly by the two initiatives on… Read More
Reports Mobile phones, nutrition, and agriculture in Ghana: Cost-Effectiveness Baseline Report Background: This is the baseline report for the cost-effectiveness analysis of the Vodafone Farmers Club, Ghana, a ValueAdded Service supported by a grant from GSMA as a part of the mNutrition programme. mNutrition is a global initiative supported by DFID, organised by GSMA, and implemented by in-country mobile network operators (MNOs) to use mobile technology to improve the health and nutritional status of children and adults in low-income countries around the world. Method: Undertook a literature review of the cost-effectiveness of agricultural and nutrition interventions. This allows for: enabling the cost-effectiveness to be compared with programmes that have some similar elements to the Vodafone Farmer’s Club. Create a framework for the analysis in 2019 (from the literature and baseline data) Collect and collate known costs at this point in time, with the specific view of gathering and monitoring missing costs in the coming period. Analysis: Defined in three components: including setup and ongoing costs for the specific intervention (Vodafone Farmers Club) (analysis A), wider mNutrition programmatic costs (analysis B), and a scenario that included societal costs including farmer costs and benefits (analysis C). The report is one of four baseline deliverables on the Vodafone Farmer’s Club project, each of which will be followed up by a final report at the end of the evaluation exercise in 2019. Read More
Reports Bringing together nutrition research in Ghana Transform Nutrition West Africa researchers met with University of Ghana, Sheffield University and Institute of Development Studies researchers in Ghana in June 2018. The meeting was linked to The Agriculture, Nutrition, and Health (ANH) Academy’s third annual conference in Accra, Ghana. This sub meeting aimed to: To start a dialogue between researchers (at national and… Resource Read More
Country Data Profiles Senegal Story of Change in Nutrition This Senegal country brief from the first round of Stories of Change studies in 2015-16 summarises a research study which tells a story to explain the interrelated factors that contributed to Senegal’s reduction in undernutrition. The hope is that these findings will help to contribute to wider impacts in terms of political commitment and policy coherence for nutrition. The… Read More
Other Supporting Material How Senegal created an enabling environment for nutrition This short video summarises the findings of the Transform Nutrition Story of Change in Nutrition from 2016. Read More