Moving towards an Outcomes-Oriented Approach to Nutrition Program Monitoring : The India ICDS Program

Focusing on the Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS), India's largest nutrition and early child development program, this paper describes the political, organizational, and technical challenges in building and sustaining an outcomes-oriented approach to nutrition program monitoring. The author show that the current policy environment appears to be conducive to strengthening nutrition program monitoring: political commitment is growing, financial allocations to ICDS have increased and, recently, a number of reforms to strengthen the ICDS monitoring and evaluation system have been undertaken. Yet, substantial weaknesses remain. This paper discusses some of the challenges in converting this vision into action and suggests some immediate steps that could be considered both at the central and state levels.

Bibliographic Details

Main Authors:	Adhikari, Saroj K., Bredenkamp, Caryn
Format:	Working Paper biblioteca
Language:	English en_US
Published:	World Bank, Washington, DC 2009-06
Subjects:	ACTION PLANS, AGED, ANTENATAL CARE, BENEFICIARIES, BREAST MILK, BULLETIN, CHILD DEVELOPMENT, CHILD FEEDING, CHILD FEEDING PRACTICES, CHILD GROWTH, CHILD MALNUTRITION, CITIZEN, CITIZENS, CIVIL SOCIETY ORGANIZATIONS, CONCURRENT EVALUATION, DATA ANALYSIS, DATA ENTRY, DEVELOPMENT PLANS, E-MAIL, EARLY CHILD DEVELOPMENT, EQUIPMENT, EXTERNAL MONITORING, FAMILY HEALTH, FINANCIAL INVESTMENTS, FOOD SUPPLEMENTATION, FOOD SUPPLEMENTS, GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES, GOVERNMENT PROGRAMS, HEALTH CARE, HEALTH EDUCATION, HOME VISITS, HOUSEHOLD LEVEL, HOUSEHOLD SURVEYS, HUMAN DEVELOPMENT, HUMAN RESOURCE, IDS, ILLNESS, IMPACT EVALUATION, IMPLEMENTATION PLAN, INFANT, INFANTS, INFORMATION SYSTEM, INFORMATION SYSTEMS, INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY, INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS, INTERVENTION, IP, JOB TRAINING, LEARNING, LOW BIRTH WEIGHT, M&E ACTIVITIES, MALNUTRITION, MATERIAL, MONITORING DATA, NATIONAL COUNCIL, NATIONAL LEVEL, NATIONAL PLAN, NATIONAL PLAN OF ACTION, NURSING, NUTRITION, NUTRITION MONITORING, NUTRITION OUTCOMES, NUTRITIONAL STATUS, OLD CHILDREN, OUTCOME INDICATORS, PEDIATRICS, PERFORMANCE MONITORING, POLITICAL POWER, POLITICAL PROCESS, PRACTITIONERS, PREGNANT WOMEN, PREVALENCE OF MALNUTRITION, PROCUREMENT, PROGRAM IMPLEMENTATION, PROGRAMS, PROGRESS, QUALITY SERVICES, RESEARCH INSTITUTIONS, RESULT, RESULTS, RIGHTS OF CHILDREN, RURAL DEVELOPMENT, SANITATION, SERVICE DELIVERY, SOCIAL AUDITS, SOCIAL SECTOR, STATE GOVERNMENTS, SUPERVISION, TARGETS, TELEPHONE, TURNOVER RATES, UNDERNUTRITION, WORKERS, YOUNG CHILD, YOUNG CHILDREN,
Online Access:	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2009/06/10828857/moving-towards-outcomes-oriented-approach-nutrition-program-monitoring-india-icds-program http://hdl.handle.net/10986/13771
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