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  • Nourishing Ideas for Action : The South Asia Food and Nutrition Security Initiative 2010-18 (English)

    The South Asia Food and Nutrition Security Initiative (SAFANSI) was created in 2010 to foster actions that lead to measurable improvements in food and nutrition security (FNS). Through flexible small grants...

    Document Type: Working Paper Report No.: 136482 Document Date: April 30, 2019 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Malli,Bremala,Zwaans,Pauline,Terasawa,Miki,Ahmed,Md Mansur,Greenawalt,Jamie Lynn,Hoberg,Yurie Tanimichi,Haque,Iftekhar,Li,Xueling,Vorman, Julie [editor]

  • SAFANSI-II Annual Report (English)

    During this reporting period, SAFANSI-II had an active portfolio of 27 projects, including 4 just-in-time (JIT) activities, for a total of USD 9.46 million. India remained the largest recipient (35 percent...

    Document Type: Annual Report Report No.: 132578 Document Date: November 28, 2018 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author:

  • Bringing rural development to bear on human nutrition (English)

    Intuitively, agricultural and rural development projects may seem to bear straightforward impacts on human nutrition. Yet nutrition outcomes are not traditionally within the purview of those who plan and...

    Document Type: Brief Report No.: 127756 Document Date: March 1, 2018 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author:

  • A targeted rural livelihoods program in Orissa (English)

    The Targeted Rural Initiatives for Poverty Termination and Infrastructure (TRIPTI) project began in Orissa in 2009.It is a participatory livelihoods project based on community mobilization and institution...

    Document Type: Brief Report No.: 112833 Document Date: January 1, 2017 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author:

  • A picture is worth a thousand words (English)

    Development interventions like projects supported by the World Bank all intend to have impacts that outlast the life of the projects themselves. Establishing a useful source of information that project...

    Document Type: Brief Report No.: 112834 Document Date: January 1, 2017 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author:

  • Early childhood diarrhea in rural Bangladesh (English)

    The study was nested within a larger randomized controlled trial with funding from the World Bank’s South Asia Food and Nutrition Security Initiative (SAFANSI), measuring the benefits of water quality...

    Document Type: Brief Report No.: 110772 Document Date: December 1, 2016 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author:

  • Integrating Nutrition Promotion and Rural Development in Sri Lanka (English)

    'Integrating Nutrition Promotion and Rural Development~^!!^ (INPARD) is a multisectoral approach to delivering nutrition-related interventions in rural development programmes in Sri Lanka. Although multisectoral...

    Document Type: Working Paper Report No.: 130658 Document Date: January 1, 2016 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author:

  • Using cash cards to make better nutrition choices in Bangladesh (English)

    The prevalence of under-nutrition in Bangladesh remains among the highest in the world. Though there has been significant progress in reducing the incidence of underweight children below 5 years, progress...

    Document Type: Brief Report No.: 100502 Document Date: October 27, 2015 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author:

  • SAFANSI : the South Asia food and security initiative (English)

    According to Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO), about 23 percent of the global population that is routinely hungry - 336 million people are in South Asia. The South Asia food and nutrition security...

    Document Type: Brief Report No.: 93524 Document Date: April 1, 2015 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author:

  • Promoting positive nutrition behavior in Bihar, India (English)

    This brief describes a small pilot designed to leverage the women's self-help group platform of a World Bank-supported livelihoods project (that is, a non-health sector project) to: (a) promote positive...

    Document Type: Brief Report No.: 93527 Document Date: January 1, 2015 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author:

  • One dish meals of South Asia (English)

    A critical goal for aid and development agencies is to ensure adequate amounts of food for all. However, the definition of food security acknowledges that the quality of the food is as important to health...

    Document Type: Brief Report No.: 93609 Document Date: January 1, 2015 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author:

  • Integrating nutrition promotion and rural development in Sri Lanka (English)

    The Integrating Nutrition Promotion and Rural Development (INPARD) Project aims to implement and evaluate nutrition promotion activities through the on-going World Bank financed Community Livelihoods in...

    Document Type: Brief Report No.: 93532 Document Date: October 1, 2014 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author:

  • Food and nutrition security in tribal and backwards areas in India (English)

    Malnutrition is one of India's most serious and persistent problems. While nutrition outcomes across India are poor, they are typically worse in tribal and backward areas. The South Asia food and nutrition...

    Document Type: Brief Report No.: 93528 Document Date: October 1, 2014 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: