ISBN:
1280090855
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9781280090851
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (xviii, 91 p)
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23 cm
Series Statement:
Directions in development
Parallel Title:
Print version Strengthening Country Commitment to Human Development : Lessons from Nutrition
DDC:
306.44/9
Keywords:
Nutrition policy
Description / Table of Contents:
""Contents""; ""Foreword""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Abbreviations and Acronyms""; ""Executive Summary""; ""Why Strengthening Commitment Is Important""; ""What Commitment Building Involves""; ""What We Know and What We Don�t""; ""Missed Opportunities""; ""Action Required""; ""What the Development Assistance Community Can Do""; ""1. Introduction""; ""2. Why Is Commitment a Special Problem in Nutrition?""; ""3. Thinking about Commitment""; ""Useful Terms""; ""Some Relevant Concepts""; ""4. Assessing Commitment to Policies and Programs""; ""Who Should Assess Commitment and How?""
Description / Table of Contents:
""Identifying Key Players""""Assessing Perspectives""; ""Assessing Behavior""; ""Putting It Together""; ""5. Commitment and Strategic Choices""; ""Broad or Narrow?""; ""Program or Project?""; ""Trial or Scale?""; ""Investment or Analysis and Partnership Building?""; ""6. Strengthening Commitment to Investment""; ""Champions, Policy Entrepreneurs, and Supporters""; ""Building Partnerships for Nutrition""; ""Using the MDGs to Make Nutrition Everybody�s Business""; ""Repositioning Nutrition in PRSPs, PRSCs, and CDD""; ""Using NGO�Civil Society Partnerships to Lobby Governments""
Description / Table of Contents:
""7. Sustaining Commitment through Implementation""""Lessons from Success: Keeping Stakeholders Motivated""; ""When Things Go Wrong: Lessons from Faltering Commitment in Tamil Nadu and Tanzania""; ""A Final Lesson""; ""8. Capacity Building for Commitment Building""; ""Strengthening Country Capacity for Commitment Building""; ""Deploying and Strengthening the International Nutrition Community�s Capacity for Country Commitment Building""; ""9. Conclusions and Recommendations""; ""Appendixes""; ""A Forms of Rationality Underlying Public Policy""
Description / Table of Contents:
""B Potential Stakeholders in Nutrition Programs""""C A Client-Centered Formative Research Approach: Trials of Impr oved Practices (TIPS)""; ""D Using PROFILES Simulations as an Advocacy Tool to Promote Investment in Nutrition""; ""How Has PROFILES Been Used?""; ""Opportunities and Issues""; ""What Does PROFILES Cost?""; ""E Contribution of Improved Nutrition to the MDGs""; ""F Sustaining Commitment to Program Implementation through Extrinsic Motivation""; ""G Keeping Communities Informed about Progress in Meeting Basic Needs: Thailand�s Village Information System""
Description / Table of Contents:
""H Using Monitoring Information as a Motivator: The Tamil Nadu Integrated Nutrition Project""""Notes""; ""References""; ""Index""; ""Boxes""; ""4.1 A Dozen Behaviors That Signal Commitment to Nutrition""; ""4.2 The Philippines in the Early 1990s: Signs of Low Commitment to PEM Reduction""; ""5.1 What Costa Rica and Thailand Had in Common""; ""5.2 The Tamil Nadu Integrated Nutrition Program: A Focused Intervention""; ""5.3 Vitamin A as a Useful Early Intervention""; ""6.1 Helping Political Champions: The Uganda Child Development Project""
Description / Table of Contents:
""6.2 Matching the Type and Channel of Information to the Consumer in Advocacy for Bangladesh�s Integrated Nutrition Project (BINP)""
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Title from e-book title screen (viewed August 25, 2006)
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