Answer the questions in the attachment below In this activity, you will use the
Answer the questions in the attachment below
In this activity, you will use the Realigning Agriculture to Improve Nutrition (RAIN) project in Zambia as a case study to create a program theory framework (or M&E framework). The goal is to practice articulating the pathways by which a project contributes towards achieving specific outcomes while thinking about pre-conditions for having a sustained impact.
Here’s what you need to do to complete the assignment:
Read chapter 27 in your textbook and listen to the lecture.
Watch the video on RAIN: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2q3XUPAio0
Read more about the project: https://www.globalhungerindex.org/case-studies/2014-zambia.html
Using the information from the video and website; and your own understanding of the topic, answer questions about the case study in this Word document.
Type your answers directly into the document. When finished, upload the document to dropbox.
Note that not all answers are provided by the case study. Use your knowledge from this week’s readings and lecture.
dePee S., Taren D., Bloem MW., Eds. (2017). Nutrition and Health in a Developing World. 3rd edition. Nutrition and Health. New York, Humana Press.
Abstract
The current global evidence base regarding the nutritional impacts of nutrition-sensitive programs, including popular ones such as social safety nets and agriculture development programs, is generally limited because of poor targeting, design, and implementation of programs, and equally important, sub-optimal evaluation designs. Although there is a consensus regarding the need to invest in nutrition-sensitive programs in order to address the underlying causes of undernutrition and to improve the effectiveness, reach, and scale of both nutrition-specific interventions and nutrition-sensitive programs, the evidence of what works, how and at what cost is extremely limited. Thus, building a strong body of evidence from rigorous, theory-based comprehensive evaluations of different nutrition-sensitive program models that bring together interventions from a variety of sectors (e.g., health, education, agriculture, social protection, women’s empowerment, water, and sanitation) is essential to provide the needed guidance for future investments for improving nutrition. This chapter provides this type of guidance, focusing on how to design and carry out rigorous process, cost, and impact evaluations of complex nutrition-sensitive programs; and it aims to demystify some of the perceived insurmountable challenges that have prevented investments in rigorous evaluations of such programs in the past. By doing so, we hope that the evidence gap in nutrition-sensitive programming, which has characterized the past decades of development, will quickly be filled and that future investments will benefit from a strong body of evidence on what works to improve nutrition, how it works, and at what cost.
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