According to the 2015 Global Nutrition Report: Actions and Accountability to Advance Nutrition & Sustainable Development by IFPRI (released in September 2015) (please click here to access): • A new national survey—the Rapid Survey on Children (RSOC), conducted in 2013–2014 by the government and UNICEF—found that stunting had fallen from 48 percent in 2005–2006 to 39 percent in 2014….
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Please click here to access the key findings of the Public Accounts Committee (2014-15) report on ICDS Scheme of Ministry of Women & Child Development, PAC no. 2045, Fourteenth Report (presented to Lok Sabha on 27 April, 2015 and Rajya Sabha on 28 April 2015). Please click here to access the full PAC report on ICDS. The NSS 68th Round…
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According to the Global Nutrition Report 2014: Actions and Accountability to Accelerate the World’s Progress on Nutrition, prepared by IFPRI (Please click here to download): • Prevalence of stunting among children below 5 years age has reduced from 47.9% in 2005-06 (National Family Health Survey, NFHS-3) to 38.8% in 2013-14 (Rapid Survey on Children, RSOC). As a result,…
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Please click here to access the Executive Summary of the Lancet series on Maternal and Child Nutrition, published on 6 June, 2013 According to the 2013 UNICEF report: Improving Child Nutrition: The achievable imperative for global progress, please click here to access: • By 2011, the number of stunted children in India was 6,17,23,000 (i.e. 6.17 crore approximately) and its share…
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According to Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General of India on Performance Audit of Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS) Scheme, CAG Report no. 22 of 2012-13-Union Government (Ministry of Women and Child Development), http://saiindia.gov.in/english/home/Our_Products/Audit_Report/Government_Wise/union_audit/recent_reports/union_performance/2012_2013/Civil/Report_22/Report_22.html: Status of Nutrition: • Total number of ICDS Supplementary Nutrition beneficiaries had been 7.06 crore in 2006-07, 8.43 crore in 2007-08, 8.73…
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The per capita per diem calorie intake is higher in the rural areas compared to urban areas, as could be deciphered from the graph below. However, both have seen a decline over the various rounds of National Sample Survey. Per capita per diem intake of Calorie (in Kcal) Source: Nutritional Intake in India: 2004-2005, NSS 61st…
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The Nutrition Barometer produced by Save the Children provides a snapshot of national governments’ commitments to addressing children’s nutrition, and the progress they have made. It looks at 36 developing countries with the highest levels of child undernutrition. The Barometer measures governments’ political and legal commitment to tackling malnutrition (eg, whether they have a national…
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For the report named HUNGaMA: Fighting Hunger & Malnutrition (2011), Naandi Foundation deployed a trained team of over 1000 surveyors who interviewed 74,020 mothers and measured 109,093 children in 4 months. The HUNGaMA (Hunger and Malnutrition) survey that covered 73,670 households across 112 districts spanning nine states in India provides reliable estimates of child nutrition covering…
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According to the World Disaster Report 2011: Focus on Hunger and Malnutrition, which has been produced by International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, http://www.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/files/file/WDR-2011-FINAL.pdf: • There has been progress in feeding more people than ever before even as the world’s population has grown by around 50 per cent since the mid-1970s. Even so,…
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