Volume 44. Issue 3: Seeing the Unseen: Breaking the Logjam of Undernutrition in Pakistan
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The Emerging Social Contract: State? Citizen Interaction after the Floods of 2010 and 2011 in Southern Sindh, Pakistan
(Blackwell Publishing Ltd, May 2013)This article looks at the post?disaster context of Lower Sindh, a region devastated by super floods in 2010 and 2011, in an attempt to understand what government policies were implemented to assist people whose lives had ... -
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Nutrition Policy in the Post-devolution Context in Pakistan: An Analysis of Provincial Opportunities and Barriers
(Blackwell Publishing Ltd, May 2013)In this article we take a comparative look at strategic opportunities and barriers for action on nutrition in Pakistan's four provinces in the post?devolution context. Provinces have faced historically common constraints ... -
Missing Dimensions in Addressing Child Malnutrition in Pakistan: Lessons from the Tawana Experience
(Blackwell Publishing Ltd, May 2013)This article uses the Tawana Pakistan Project (TPP) as a case study of how to promote self?sustaining improvements in nutrition status. The programme used a participatory approach to mobilisation around malnutrition, had ... -
Agriculture and Nutrition in Pakistan: Pathways and Disconnects
(Blackwell Publishing Ltd, May 2013)Results of the latest nationwide nutrition survey show that the ‘South Asian paradox’ of persistently high rates of undernutrition despite respectable rates of economic growth appears to hold true for Pakistan. Although ... -
Achieving Universal Salt Iodisation (USI) in Pakistan: Challenges, Experiences and the Way Forward
(Blackwell Publishing Ltd, May 2013)This article aims to describe the history, progress, success and challenges of the Universal Salt Iodisation (USI) programme in Pakistan, which was launched in 1994. Revitalised in 2005 with financial assistance and ... -
Impoverished Rural Districts of Pakistan: An Independent Evaluation of Impact on Educational and Cognitive Outcomes in Sindh Province, Pakistan
(Blackwell Publishing Ltd, May 2013)This article presents findings of cognitive and performance assessment among recipient and non?recipient school girls in the catchment schools of the Tawana Pakistan Project using standardised matrices. This is the first ... -
Impact on Health and Nutrition Outcomes in Sindh Province, Pakistan
(Blackwell Publishing Ltd, May 2013)We independently conducted the impact assessment of the Tawana Pakistan Project (a school?based feeding programme to improve the nutritional status of primary school girls in impoverished rural districts of Pakistan). The ... -
Inflation and Food Security in Pakistan: Impact and Coping Strategies
(Blackwell Publishing Ltd, May 2013)Food security will remain an important component of any strategy for nutritional improvement in Pakistan. The country experienced acute price spikes and shortages during 2007 and 2008, corresponding with food price inflation ... -
Towards Improved Food and Nutrition Security in Sindh Province, Pakistan
(Blackwell Publishing Ltd, May 2013)The 2011 National Nutrition Survey (NNS) in Pakistan showed that Sindh province continues to have some of the worst undernutrition rates in South Asia. For determinants of acute and chronic malnutrition to be better ... -
Evaluation of Nutrition Surveys in Flood-affected Areas of Pakistan: Seeing the Unseen!
(Blackwell Publishing Ltd, May 2013)In 2010 Pakistan experienced the worst floods recorded in its history; millions of people were affected and thousands lost their lives. Nutrition assessment surveys led by UNICEF were conducted in flood?affected areas of ... -
Seeing the Unseen: Breaking the Logjam of Undernutrition in Pakistan
(Blackwell Publishing Ltd, May 2013)After a lost decade, there is clearly a groundswell of momentum for nutrition in Pakistan, driven by a confluence of policy, evidence and events. This momentum needs to be sustained at the national level, reinforced at the ... -
Engaging Development Partners in Efforts to Reverse Malnutrition Trends in Pakistan
(Blackwell Publishing Ltd, May 2013)After two decades of failed efforts to launch a national nutrition programme and nutrition action largely limited to low coverage interventions, a promising multisectoral nutrition scenario is unfolding in Pakistan led by ...