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Monitoring for Nutrition Results in ICDS: Translating Vision into Action

Year: 2009

Type: article

Abstract: This article focuses on the Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS), India's largest nutrition and early child development programme. It describes the political, organisational and technical challenges to building and sustaining an outcomes-oriented approach to nutrition monitoring in India. We show that the environment is conducive to strengthening nutrition programme monitoring and evaluation. Political commitment is growing, financial allocations have increased and there have been a number of reforms to strengthen the ICDS monitoring systems, but weaknesses remain. The article analyses seven technical challenges to improving the outcomes-orientation of ICDS and suggests steps that could be taken to improve monitoring.

Source: IDS Bulletin

DOI: 10.1111/j.1759-5436.2009.00061.x

Authors: Saroj K. Adhikari, Caryn Bredenkamp

Institutions: World Bank, Government of India, Ministry of Women and Child Development

Language: English

Topic: Child Nutrition and Water Access

Subfield: Nutrition and Dietetics

Field: Nursing

Domain: Health Sciences

SDGs: Zero hunger, Good health and well-being

Open Access status: green

OpenAlex ID: W1970265194

FWCI: 0.821

Cites: 2

Cited by: 11

Related to: 10