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The landscape of Home-Grown School Feeding (HGSF) programmes within the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) region has undergone significant evolution since the last assessment...

The paper emphasizes the need for sustainable financial solutions and collaborative efforts involving international financial institutions, donors and innovative financing schemes to bridge the funding gap and ensure...

Highlights: Cette étude examine le coût respectif de trois types d’alimentation: i) Coût d’une alimentation suffisamment énergétique (Cost of Caloric Adequacy...

Highlights: The Sahel and West Africa region is facing a serious food and nutrition security crisis with high rates of acute malnutrition, combined with high rates of malnourishment and...

KEY MESSAGES: The food crisis is growing and is highly exacerbated by insecurity, inflation and the adverse effects of climate change The 2022-2023 agropastoral season was generally satisfactory, but...

UNICEF Regional Offices in Eastern and Southern Africa and in Western and Central Africa jointly commissioned an assessment of Gender-transformative approaches and promising practices in Health, Nutrition, and HIV programming...

The rapid growth of the human population in West Africa makes malnutrition a pressing issue. This paper highlights the predicted nutritional issues in West Africa by 2030. Data were...

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...

This brief summarizes nutrition-relevant policies in Ivory Coast. We examine i) nutrition context, policy objectives, indicators, budget, and activities, ii) key beneficiaries, actors...

This note provides guidance for improving nutrition-relevant policy in West Africa, drawn from a comprehensive policy review of nutrition-relevant policies in 16 countries: Benin, Burkina Faso, Cape...