What Can We Learn from Nutrition
            Impact Evaluations? Lessons from a Review of Interventions
            to Reduce Child Malnutrition in Developing Countries

Independent Evaluation Group

dc.creator	Independent Evaluation Group
dc.date	2012-03-19T09:35:40Z
dc.date	2012-03-19T09:35:40Z
dc.date	2010
dc.date.accessioned	2023-02-17T20:37:52Z
dc.date.available	2023-02-17T20:37:52Z
dc.identifier	http://www-wds.worldbank.org/external/default/main?menuPK=64187510&pagePK=64193027&piPK=64187937&theSitePK=523679&menuPK=64187510&searchMenuPK=64187283&siteName=WDS&entityID=000334955_20101116024950
dc.identifier	978-0-8213-8406-0
dc.identifier	http://hdl.handle.net/10986/2524
dc.identifier.uri	http://localhost:8080/xmlui/handle/CUHPOERS/242950
dc.description	This paper reviews recent impact evaluations of interventions and programs to improve child anthropometric outcomes- height, weight, and birth weight-with an emphasis on both the findings and the limitations of the literature and on understanding what might happen in a non-research setting. It further reviews the experience and lessons from evaluations of the impact of the World Bank-supported programs on nutrition outcomes. Specifically, the review addresses the following four questions: 1) what can be said about the impact of different interventions on children's anthropometric outcomes? 2) How do these findings vary across settings and within target groups, and what accounts for this variability? 3) What is the evidence of the cost-effectiveness of these interventions? 4) What have been the lessons from implementing impact evaluations of Bank-supported programs with anthropometric impacts? Although many different dimensions of child nutrition could be explored, this report focuses on child anthropometric outcomes-weight, height, and birth weight. These are the most common nutrition outcome indicators in the literature and the ones most frequently monitored by national nutrition programs supported by the World Bank. Low weight for age (underweight) is also the indicator for one of the Millennium Development Goals.
dc.language	English
dc.publisher	Washington, DC: World Bank
dc.rights	CC BY 3.0 IGO
dc.rights	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo/
dc.rights	World Bank
dc.subject	ACCESS TO EDUCATION
dc.subject	ACUTE MALNUTRITION
dc.subject	AGE GROUPS
dc.subject	AGED
dc.subject	ANEMIA
dc.subject	BEHAVIORAL OUTCOMES
dc.subject	BLINDNESS
dc.subject	BREASTFEEDING
dc.subject	CAROTENE
dc.subject	CHILD CARE
dc.subject	CHILD DEVELOPMENT
dc.subject	CHILD DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMS
dc.subject	CHILD GROWTH
dc.subject	CHILD MALNUTRITION
dc.subject	CHILD MORTALITY
dc.subject	CHILD NUTRITION
dc.subject	CHILD NUTRITION OUTCOMES
dc.subject	CHILD NUTRITIONAL STATUS
dc.subject	CHILD SUPPORT
dc.subject	CHILD SURVIVAL
dc.subject	CHILDHOOD MALNUTRITION
dc.subject	CHRONIC MALNUTRITION
dc.subject	COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT
dc.subject	COGNITIVE OUTCOMES
dc.subject	COMPLEMENTARY FEEDING
dc.subject	CONDITIONAL CASH TRANSFERS
dc.subject	COPPER
dc.subject	CURATIVE HEALTH CARE
dc.subject	DAY CARE
dc.subject	DECISION MAKING
dc.subject	DETERMINANTS OF MALNUTRITION
dc.subject	DIABETES
dc.subject	DIARRHEA
dc.subject	DIARRHEAL DISEASE
dc.subject	DURATION OF BREASTFEEDING
dc.subject	EARLY CHILD DEVELOPMENT
dc.subject	ENROLLMENT
dc.subject	FLOUR
dc.subject	FOLIC ACID
dc.subject	FOOD AID
dc.subject	FOOD AVAILABILITY
dc.subject	FOOD DISTRIBUTION
dc.subject	FOOD INTAKE
dc.subject	FOOD POLICY
dc.subject	FOOD SUPPLEMENTS
dc.subject	GIRLS
dc.subject	GROWTH MONITORING
dc.subject	HEALTH CARE
dc.subject	HEALTH OUTCOMES
dc.subject	HEALTH SERVICES
dc.subject	HEALTH STATUS
dc.subject	HEIGHT FOR AGE
dc.subject	HIGH BLOOD PRESSURE
dc.subject	HOUSEHOLD BEHAVIORS
dc.subject	HUNGER
dc.subject	HYPERTENSION
dc.subject	IMCI
dc.subject	IMMUNODEFICIENCY
dc.subject	INFANTS
dc.subject	INFECTION
dc.subject	INFECTIOUS DISEASES
dc.subject	INTEGRATED MANAGEMENT OF CHILDHOOD ILLNESS
dc.subject	INTERVENTION
dc.subject	IODINE
dc.subject	IODINE DEFICIENCY
dc.subject	IRON
dc.subject	IRON DEFICIENCY
dc.subject	LBW
dc.subject	LEARNING
dc.subject	LOW BIRTHWEIGHT
dc.subject	MALARIA
dc.subject	MATERNAL MORTALITY
dc.subject	MEASLES
dc.subject	MICRONUTRIENT DEFICIENCIES
dc.subject	MICRONUTRIENT DEFICIENCY
dc.subject	MICRONUTRIENT INTERVENTIONS
dc.subject	MICRONUTRIENT SUPPLEMENTATION
dc.subject	MICRONUTRIENTS
dc.subject	MINERALS
dc.subject	MORBIDITY
dc.subject	MORTALITY
dc.subject	NATIONAL NUTRITION PROGRAMS
dc.subject	NUTRIENTS
dc.subject	NUTRITION
dc.subject	NUTRITION EDUCATION
dc.subject	NUTRITION INTERVENTIONS
dc.subject	NUTRITION PROGRAMS
dc.subject	NUTRITION PROJECTS
dc.subject	NUTRITION SERVICES
dc.subject	NUTRITION STATUS
dc.subject	NUTRITIONAL OUTCOMES
dc.subject	NUTRITIONAL STATUS
dc.subject	OBESITY
dc.subject	PARENTING
dc.subject	PERSONAL HYGIENE
dc.subject	PHYSICAL GROWTH
dc.subject	PREGNANCY
dc.subject	PREGNANT WOMEN
dc.subject	PRESCHOOL CHILDREN
dc.subject	PRESCHOOL EDUCATION
dc.subject	PRIMARY SCHOOL
dc.subject	PUBLIC HEALTH
dc.subject	RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS
dc.subject	RURAL AREAS
dc.subject	SANITATION
dc.subject	SCHOOL FEEDING PROGRAMS
dc.subject	SCHOOL MEALS
dc.subject	SCHOOL-AGE CHILDREN
dc.subject	SCHOOLING
dc.subject	SCHOOLS
dc.subject	SIBLINGS
dc.subject	STUNTING
dc.subject	SUPPLEMENTARY FEEDING
dc.subject	UNDERNUTRITION
dc.subject	UNDERWEIGHT RATES
dc.subject	VITAMIN
dc.subject	VITAMIN A
dc.subject	VITAMIN A DEFICIENCY
dc.subject	VITAMINS
dc.subject	WASTING
dc.subject	WATER SUPPLY
dc.subject	WEIGHT GAIN
dc.subject	WORKERS
dc.subject	ZINC DEFICIENCY
dc.title	What Can We Learn from Nutrition Impact Evaluations? Lessons from a Review of Interventions to Reduce Child Malnutrition in Developing Countries
dc.type	Publications & Research :: Publication
dc.type	Publications & Research :: Publication