Monitoring for Nutrition Results in ICDS: Translating Vision into Action

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 Indi...

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Main Authors: Adhikari, S. K., Bredenkamp, C.
Format: Journal Article
Language:EN
Published: 2012
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10986/5161
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spelling okr-10986-51612021-04-23T14:02:21Z Monitoring for Nutrition Results in ICDS: Translating Vision into Action Adhikari, S. K. Bredenkamp, C. 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. 2012-03-30T07:31:36Z 2012-03-30T07:31:36Z 2009 Journal Article Ids Bulletin-Institute of Development Studies 0265-5012 http://hdl.handle.net/10986/5161 EN http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/igo World Bank Journal Article
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description 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.
format Journal Article
author Adhikari, S. K.
Bredenkamp, C.
spellingShingle Adhikari, S. K.
Bredenkamp, C.
Monitoring for Nutrition Results in ICDS: Translating Vision into Action
author_facet Adhikari, S. K.
Bredenkamp, C.
author_sort Adhikari, S. K.
title Monitoring for Nutrition Results in ICDS: Translating Vision into Action
title_short Monitoring for Nutrition Results in ICDS: Translating Vision into Action
title_full Monitoring for Nutrition Results in ICDS: Translating Vision into Action
title_fullStr Monitoring for Nutrition Results in ICDS: Translating Vision into Action
title_full_unstemmed Monitoring for Nutrition Results in ICDS: Translating Vision into Action
title_sort monitoring for nutrition results in icds: translating vision into action
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