Monitoring for Nutrition Results in ICDS

Translating Vision into Action

Bibliographic Data

ID11470988
AuthorsSaroj K Adhikari (Government of India), Caryn Bredenkamp (World Bank)
Year2009
Volume40
Issue4
Pages70-77
Publication date2009-07-01
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueIDS Bulletin (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0265-5012 • E-ISSN: 1759-5436
PublisherInstitute of Development Studies (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/j.1759-5436.2009.00061.x
OpenAlexW1970265194
LanguageEN
Citations received4
References cited1

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

Agriculture · Business · Economic growth · Economics · Geography · Livelihood · Monitoring and evaluation · OpenAccess · Political science · Politics · Public relations · Child Nutrition and Water Access · Medicine · Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare

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