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

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.

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Main Author:	Independent Evaluation Group
Language:	English
Published:	Washington, DC: World Bank 2010
Subjects:	ACCESS TO EDUCATION, ACUTE MALNUTRITION, AGE GROUPS, AGED, ANEMIA, BEHAVIORAL OUTCOMES, BLINDNESS, BREASTFEEDING, CAROTENE, CHILD CARE, CHILD DEVELOPMENT, CHILD DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMS, CHILD GROWTH, CHILD MALNUTRITION, CHILD MORTALITY, CHILD NUTRITION, CHILD NUTRITION OUTCOMES, CHILD NUTRITIONAL STATUS, CHILD SUPPORT, CHILD SURVIVAL, CHILDHOOD MALNUTRITION, CHRONIC MALNUTRITION, COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT, COGNITIVE OUTCOMES, COMPLEMENTARY FEEDING, CONDITIONAL CASH TRANSFERS, COPPER, CURATIVE HEALTH CARE, DAY CARE, DECISION MAKING, DETERMINANTS OF MALNUTRITION, DIABETES, DIARRHEA, DIARRHEAL DISEASE, DURATION OF BREASTFEEDING, EARLY CHILD DEVELOPMENT, ENROLLMENT, FLOUR, FOLIC ACID, FOOD AID, FOOD AVAILABILITY, FOOD DISTRIBUTION, FOOD INTAKE, FOOD POLICY, FOOD SUPPLEMENTS, GIRLS, GROWTH MONITORING, HEALTH CARE, HEALTH OUTCOMES, HEALTH SERVICES, HEALTH STATUS, HEIGHT FOR AGE, HIGH BLOOD PRESSURE, HOUSEHOLD BEHAVIORS, HUNGER, HYPERTENSION, IMCI, IMMUNODEFICIENCY, INFANTS, INFECTION, INFECTIOUS DISEASES, INTEGRATED MANAGEMENT OF CHILDHOOD ILLNESS, INTERVENTION, IODINE, IODINE DEFICIENCY, IRON, IRON DEFICIENCY, LBW, LEARNING, LOW BIRTHWEIGHT, MALARIA, MATERNAL MORTALITY, MEASLES, MICRONUTRIENT DEFICIENCIES, MICRONUTRIENT DEFICIENCY, MICRONUTRIENT INTERVENTIONS, MICRONUTRIENT SUPPLEMENTATION, MICRONUTRIENTS, MINERALS, MORBIDITY, MORTALITY, NATIONAL NUTRITION PROGRAMS, NUTRIENTS, NUTRITION, NUTRITION EDUCATION, NUTRITION INTERVENTIONS, NUTRITION PROGRAMS, NUTRITION PROJECTS, NUTRITION SERVICES, NUTRITION STATUS, NUTRITIONAL OUTCOMES, NUTRITIONAL STATUS, OBESITY, PARENTING, PERSONAL HYGIENE, PHYSICAL GROWTH, PREGNANCY, PREGNANT WOMEN, PRESCHOOL CHILDREN, PRESCHOOL EDUCATION, PRIMARY SCHOOL, PUBLIC HEALTH, RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS, RURAL AREAS, SANITATION, SCHOOL FEEDING PROGRAMS, SCHOOL MEALS, SCHOOL-AGE CHILDREN, SCHOOLING, SCHOOLS, SIBLINGS, STUNTING, SUPPLEMENTARY FEEDING, UNDERNUTRITION, UNDERWEIGHT RATES, VITAMIN, VITAMIN A, VITAMIN A DEFICIENCY, VITAMINS, WASTING, WATER SUPPLY, WEIGHT GAIN, WORKERS, ZINC DEFICIENCY,
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