This brief summarizes nutrition-relevant policies, strategies, and action plans in West Africa. With a focus on the six nutrition challenges that make up the World Health Assembly global targets, we examine: i) nutrition context, policy objectives...

This data profile from Transform Nutrition West Africa on Burkina Faso aims to: Summarize all available primary data sources and secondary data aggregation platforms for key nutrition indicators representative at the national level. Assess the id...

The global community is committed to addressing malnutrition. And yet, coverage data for high-impact interventions along the continuum of care remain scarce due to several measurement and data collection challenges. In this analysis paper, we iden...

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, or...

This data profile from Transform Nutrition West Africa on Guinea Bissau aims to: Summarize all available primary data sources and secondary data aggregation platforms for key nutrition indicators representative at the national level. Assess the id...

Indigenous to West Africa, oil palm is an important crop for both industrial, retail and consumer markets. In 2013, West Africa’s palm oil output was 2.2 million metric tons (MT), which accounts for only 3.5% of global output. Today, the demand for p...

This brief summarizes nutrition-relevant policies in Nigeria. We examine: i) nutrition context, policy objectives, indicators, budget, and activities, ii) key beneficiaries, actors and coordination, iii) monitoring, evaluation, and accountabilit...

The Nigerian poultry industry is estimated at ₦80 billion ($600 million) and is comprised of approximately 165 million birds, which produced 650,000 MT of eggs and 290,000 MT of poultry meat in 2013. From a market size perspective, Nigeria’s egg pro...

This brief summarizes nutrition-relevant policies in Burkina Faso. We examine: i) nutrition context, policy objectives, indicators, budget, and activities, ii) key beneficiaries, actors and coordination, iii) monitoring, evaluation, and accountabi...

This data profile from Transform Nutrition West Africa on Nigeria aims to: Summarize all available primary data sources and secondary data aggregation platforms for key nutrition indicators representative at the national level. Assess the identifi...

Cassava is a staple of choice across cultures and social divides in Nigerian households. The majority of the tuber produced is consumed locally as traditional meals. It is the most important crop by production, and the second most important by consum...

This data profile from Transform Nutrition West Africa on Mali aims to: Summarize all available primary data sources and secondary data aggregation platforms for key nutrition indicators representative at the national level. Assess the identified...