Situational Analysis : Improving Economic Outcomes by Expanding Nutrition Programming in the Kyrgyz Republic
The World Bank and The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) jointly developed this report to calculate the potential human and economic benefits to be gained from increasing nutrition investments in the Kyrgyz Republic. This report provides...
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Format: | Working Paper |
Language: | English en_US |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2017
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Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/660271468015004550/Situational-analysis-improving-economic-outcomes-by-expanding-nutrition-programming-in-the-Kyrgyz-Republic http://hdl.handle.net/10986/27331 |
Summary: | The World Bank and The United Nations
Children's Fund (UNICEF) jointly developed this report
to calculate the potential human and economic benefits to be
gained from increasing nutrition investments in the Kyrgyz
Republic. This report provides compelling evidence of the
potential to improve health and economic outcomes through
scaling up effective nutrition interventions and introducing
new proven interventions to reduce the direct causes of
under nutrition in order to support the Kyrgyz
government's commitment to the well-being and
prosperous future of the Kyrgyz people. This situational
analysis examines and quantifies the scope of under
nutrition in the Kyrgyz Republic by presenting: (1) the
epidemiology of under nutrition; (2) an estimate of the
health consequences of under nutrition in terms of mortality
and disability adjusted life years (DALYs), and the economic
losses due to lost workforce and productivity; (3) the
health, social protection, and agriculture and food
intervention systems relevant to delivering interventions
for improving nutrition; (4) the current coverage of
nutrition interventions; and (5) the potential economic
gains achievable by scaling up effective nutrition
interventions. The current context is very favorable for
scaling up nutrition interventions in the Kyrgyz Republic.
Investing in nutrition has increasingly proven to have
excellent development and health returns. The international
development community has recognized (1) the need to scale
up nutrition interventions; (2) the potential for
public-private partnerships; and, (3) a growing consensus
around a common framework for action. Reducing under
nutrition worldwide is a priority for the World Bank and
UNICEF, and also critical to achieving the Millennium
Development Goals (MDGs). |
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