This sub-section contains applications and tools allowing you to investigate the status of population as well as nutrition policies and programmes.

What is the nutrition transition?

Changes in diet and lifestyle can be caused by many factors and can, in turn, cause changes in health. This building block explains what the nutrition transition is and its implications for health and environmental sustainability.

Nutrition Glossary (April 2022)

This glossary provides standardized terms in Arabic, English, French, and Spanish in order to share knowledge and widen understanding of nutrition.

DataBank - Food Prices for Nutrition

The Food Prices for Nutrition DataHub's diet cost and affordability indicators use the least cost combination of locally available foods to meet the needs of a representative adult requiring 2330 kcal per day at three levels of diet quality: a healthy diet; a nutrient adequate diet, and an energy sufficient diet.

Countdown to 2030

Countdown 2030 analyzes data on coverage of health interventions across socioeconomic status, gender, education, and geography, and on key drivers of change such as policy, finance, and other health system dimensions. 

National Information Platform for Nutrition

The NIPN initiative provides analysis of available data and generates evidence to better inform policies for nutrition. The initiative currently cover countries with a high burden of undernutrition: Bangladesh, Burkina Faso, Ethiopia, Guatemala, Ivory Coast, Kenya, Lao PDR, Niger, and Uganda.

WHO Nutrition Landscape Information System (NLiS)

Bringing together all existing WHO Global Nutrition Databases dynamically, as well as other existing food and nutrition-related data from partner agencies, NLIS is a web-based tool which provides nutrition and nutrition-related health and development data in the form of automated country profiles and user-defined downloadable data. Data presented in the country profiles are structured by the UNICEF conceptual framework for causes of malnutrition and intend to give an overview snapshot of a country's nutrition, health, and development at the national level.

WHO Global database on the Implementation of Nutrition Action (GINA)

Supporting the development, implementation, monitoring and assessment of national nutrition policies and progammes is one of the core activities of the WHO Department of Nutrition for Health and Development (NHD). Monitoring of country progress is being done through the use of the Global database on the Implementation of Nutrition Action (GINA), which was developed and launched in 2012 with the support of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. GINA builds on the former WHO Global Database on National Nutrition Policies and Programmes developed after the 1st International Conference on Nutrition in 1992. GINA, in turn, is informed by WHO’s periodically conducted global policy reviews, routine policy monitoring activities in collaboration with Regional and Country Offices as well as by partners’ databases.

Committed to nutrition: A toolkit for action

This Toolkit for Action provides UNICEF staff, and partners with one source of information on recommended nutrition actions for emergency preparedness, response and recovery. The Toolkit for Action provides a range of practical actions, resources and country examples.

Fill the Nutrient Gap

The Fill the Nutrient GAP (FNG) is a tool developed by WFP that helps to identify context-specific barriers to adequate nutrient intake amongst groups and proposes cost-effective strategies to overcome them.

Food-based dietary guidelines

The FAO Food-based dietary guidelines provide the basis to foster healthy eating habits and lifestyles through public food and nutrition, health and agricultural policies and nutrition education programmes.

Global Nutrition Targets Tracking Tool

The Global Nutrition Targets Tracking Tool monitors progress of the six nutrition targets endorsed by the World Health Assembly in 2012 for 2025, as well as towards 2030, aligned with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG).

Global Individual Food consumption data

FAO and WHO worked together to compile and harmonize individual food consumption data from surveys in this global dataset. For each survey available it is possible to visualize ready-to-use indicators in the areas of food consumption, food safety and food nutrition and, to download the microdata of food consumption for further analysis.

The State of the World's Children 2019: Interactive Dashboard

In this link, UNICEF provides data visualization, dashboards and databases related to Infant and young child feeding, Malnutrition, Iodized salt consumption, Vitamin A supplementation and Low birthweight. 

FAO Hand-in-Hand(HiH)

Hand-in-Hand is an initiative of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) to accelerate agricultural transformation and sustainable rural development to eradicate poverty (SDG1) and end hunger and all forms of malnutrition (SDG2). The initiative aims to bring together geospatial layers and statistics.

Nutrition Modeling Consortium

Nutrition Modeling refers mostly to computer assisted optimization routines that seek to select a best solution (with regard to some nutrition objective) among a set of available policy or program alternatives. 

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