Documentos e informes
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From Government Policies to Fortified Milk, SAFANSI Works to Improve Nutrition for Millions (Inglés)
The South Asia Food and Nutrition Security Initiative (SAFANSI) is an innovative, flexible trust fund that has had an outsized impact on advancing regional nutrition policy, research, and services since...
Tipo de documento: Resumen Número del informe: 142030 Fecha del documento: 1 de junio de 2019 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed
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Nourishing Ideas for Action : The South Asia Food and Nutrition Security Initiative 2010-18 (Inglés)
The South Asia Food and Nutrition Security Initiative (SAFANSI) was created in 2010 to foster actions that lead to measurable improvements in food and nutrition security (FNS). Through flexible small grants...
Tipo de documento: Documento de trabajo Número del informe: 136482 Fecha del documento: 30 de abril de 2019 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Malli,Bremala,Zwaans,Pauline,Terasawa,Miki,Ahmed,Md Mansur,Greenawalt,Jamie Lynn,Hoberg,Yurie Tanimichi,Haque,Iftekhar,Li,Xueling,Vorman, Julie [editor]
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SAFANSI-II Annual Report (Inglés)
During this reporting period, SAFANSI-II had an active portfolio of 27 projects, including 4 just-in-time (JIT) activities, for a total of USD 9.46 million. India remained the largest recipient (35 percent...
Tipo de documento: Informe Anual Número del informe: 132578 Fecha del documento: 28 de noviembre de 2018 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed
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Guiding Policy and Investment in Human Nutrition in Four Provinces of Pakistan (Inglés)
Female and childhood malnutrition rates in the Islamic Republic of Pakistan are among the highest in the world. The effects of malnutrition are generally divided into stunting, which refers to height deficit...
Tipo de documento: Documento de trabajo Número del informe: 129579 Fecha del documento: 1 de agosto de 2018 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed
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Bringing rural development to bear on human nutrition (Inglés)
Intuitively, agricultural and rural development projects may seem to bear straightforward impacts on human nutrition. Yet nutrition outcomes are not traditionally within the purview of those who plan and...
Tipo de documento: Resumen Número del informe: 127756 Fecha del documento: 1 de marzo de 2018 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed
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Jeevika in rural Bihar : social mobilization and cultural transformation (Inglés)
The project in question is the Bihar Rural Livelihoods Project, locally known as Jeevika, translated variously as livelihoods or livelihoods expansion. Jeevika is a very large-scale, community-based poverty...
Tipo de documento: Resumen Número del informe: 112832 Fecha del documento: 1 de enero de 2017 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed
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A picture is worth a thousand words (Inglés)
Development interventions like projects supported by the World Bank all intend to have impacts that outlast the life of the projects themselves. Establishing a useful source of information that project...
Tipo de documento: Resumen Número del informe: 112834 Fecha del documento: 1 de enero de 2017 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed
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A targeted rural livelihoods program in Orissa (Inglés)
The Targeted Rural Initiatives for Poverty Termination and Infrastructure (TRIPTI) project began in Orissa in 2009.It is a participatory livelihoods project based on community mobilization and institution...
Tipo de documento: Resumen Número del informe: 112833 Fecha del documento: 1 de enero de 2017 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed
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Early childhood diarrhea in rural Bangladesh (Inglés)
The study was nested within a larger randomized controlled trial with funding from the World Bank’s South Asia Food and Nutrition Security Initiative (SAFANSI), measuring the benefits of water quality...
Tipo de documento: Resumen Número del informe: 110772 Fecha del documento: 1 de diciembre de 2016 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed
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Integrating nutrition in rural livelihoods and value chains and the role of producer companies (Inglés)
The state of Madhya Pradesh lags behind the country in key health and nutrition indicators. While the India average for percentage of underweight children is 47, in Madhya Pradesh it is 60 percent. The...
Tipo de documento: Resumen Número del informe: 106469 Fecha del documento: 1 de marzo de 2016 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed
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Integrating Nutrition Promotion and Rural Development in Sri Lanka (Inglés)
'Integrating Nutrition Promotion and Rural Development~^!!^ (INPARD) is a multisectoral approach to delivering nutrition-related interventions in rural development programmes in Sri Lanka. Although multisectoral...
Tipo de documento: Documento de trabajo Número del informe: 130658 Fecha del documento: 1 de enero de 2016 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed
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Impacting food security and nutrition outcomes through strengthening livelihoods : the experience from India livelihood projects (Inglés)
While malnutrition affects households across the economic spectrum, the poorest bear the largest burden due to low calorie intake, less diverse diets, high incidence of stunting, as well as underweight...
Tipo de documento: Resumen Número del informe: 106468 Fecha del documento: 1 de enero de 2016 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed
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Using cash cards to make better nutrition choices in Bangladesh (Inglés)
The prevalence of under-nutrition in Bangladesh remains among the highest in the world. Though there has been significant progress in reducing the incidence of underweight children below 5 years, progress...
Tipo de documento: Resumen Número del informe: 100502 Fecha del documento: 27 de octubre de 2015 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed
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SAFANSI : the South Asia food and security initiative (Inglés)
According to Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO), about 23 percent of the global population that is routinely hungry - 336 million people are in South Asia. The South Asia food and nutrition security...
Tipo de documento: Resumen Número del informe: 93524 Fecha del documento: 1 de abril de 2015 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed
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Evidence from Pakistan : child nutritional outcomes and community-based health service provision (Inglés)
Malnutrition among both women and children remains a major health issue in rural Pakistan. They also lack voice in relation to important health and nutritional decisions within their homes, for both themselves...
Tipo de documento: Resumen Número del informe: 93526 Fecha del documento: 1 de enero de 2015 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed
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One dish meals of South Asia (Inglés)
A critical goal for aid and development agencies is to ensure adequate amounts of food for all. However, the definition of food security acknowledges that the quality of the food is as important to health...
Tipo de documento: Resumen Número del informe: 93609 Fecha del documento: 1 de enero de 2015 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed
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Promoting positive nutrition behavior in Bihar, India (Inglés)
This brief describes a small pilot designed to leverage the women's self-help group platform of a World Bank-supported livelihoods project (that is, a non-health sector project) to: (a) promote positive...
Tipo de documento: Resumen Número del informe: 93527 Fecha del documento: 1 de enero de 2015 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed
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Nepal~^!!^s scaling-up nutrition initiative technical assistance (SUNITA) : Nepal's scaling-up nutrition initiative technical assistance (SUNITA) (Inglés)
Over the past two decades, Nepal has achieved economic growth and improvements in social and health indicators. However, the poor nutritional status of first, women, manifested in a low body mass index...
Tipo de documento: Resumen Número del informe: 93525 Fecha del documento: 1 de enero de 2015 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed
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Integrating nutrition promotion and rural development in Sri Lanka (Inglés)
The Integrating Nutrition Promotion and Rural Development (INPARD) Project aims to implement and evaluate nutrition promotion activities through the on-going World Bank financed Community Livelihoods in...
Tipo de documento: Resumen Número del informe: 93532 Fecha del documento: 1 de octubre de 2014 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed
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Food and nutrition security in tribal and backwards areas in India (Inglés)
Malnutrition is one of India's most serious and persistent problems. While nutrition outcomes across India are poor, they are typically worse in tribal and backward areas. The South Asia food and nutrition...
Tipo de documento: Resumen Número del informe: 93528 Fecha del documento: 1 de octubre de 2014 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed