Aiming High : Indonesia's Ambition to Reduce Stunting

In the 1980's Indonesia became an example for other countries concerned with reducing high levels of malnutrition. At the time, Indonesia had started nutrition programming and surveillance at the village level using the integrated weighing and...

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Main Authors: Rokx, Claudia, Subandoro, Ali, Gallagher, Paul
Format: Report
Language:English
Published: World Bank, Washington, DC 2018
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spelling okr-10986-301512021-06-14T10:05:04Z Aiming High : Indonesia's Ambition to Reduce Stunting Rokx, Claudia Subandoro, Ali Gallagher, Paul STUNTING NUTRITION INFANT FEEDING MATERNAL HEALTH CHILD HEALTH In the 1980's Indonesia became an example for other countries concerned with reducing high levels of malnutrition. At the time, Indonesia had started nutrition programming and surveillance at the village level using the integrated weighing and child health posts, or Posyandu. In the ensuing decades there have been successes: small scale and bigger scale interventions that reduced malnutrition. At the same time, there have been set-backs, loss of attention, other priorities, decentralization, weak management and poor governance. In August 2017, the Indonesian government unveiled a new strategy to accelerate reductions in rates of stunting. This book looks at what will be required to turn that strategy - the National Strategy to Accelerate Stunting Prevention (StraNas Stunting) 2017-2021 – from vision into reality. It looks at the country's ambitious reforms and goals to reduce stunting. It examines the government's plans to boost awareness about the economic, social and personal cost of stunting, to ensure a truly national "multi-sectoral" effort to tackle the problem at scale in a coordinated and cohesive fashion in communities across Indonesia. It chronicles past successes and setbacks, drawing lessons from them about the future. We think Indonesia is on a path towards new success: this time at scale. It is a story worthtelling. 2018-08-06T20:07:59Z 2018-08-06T20:07:59Z 2018-07 Report http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/913341532704260864/Aiming-high-Indonesias-ambition-to-reduce-stunting http://hdl.handle.net/10986/30151 English CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo World Bank World Bank, Washington, DC Economic & Sector Work :: Other Health Study Economic & Sector Work East Asia and Pacific Indonesia
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topic STUNTING
NUTRITION
INFANT FEEDING
MATERNAL HEALTH
CHILD HEALTH
spellingShingle STUNTING
NUTRITION
INFANT FEEDING
MATERNAL HEALTH
CHILD HEALTH
Rokx, Claudia
Subandoro, Ali
Gallagher, Paul
Aiming High : Indonesia's Ambition to Reduce Stunting
geographic_facet East Asia and Pacific
Indonesia
description In the 1980's Indonesia became an example for other countries concerned with reducing high levels of malnutrition. At the time, Indonesia had started nutrition programming and surveillance at the village level using the integrated weighing and child health posts, or Posyandu. In the ensuing decades there have been successes: small scale and bigger scale interventions that reduced malnutrition. At the same time, there have been set-backs, loss of attention, other priorities, decentralization, weak management and poor governance. In August 2017, the Indonesian government unveiled a new strategy to accelerate reductions in rates of stunting. This book looks at what will be required to turn that strategy - the National Strategy to Accelerate Stunting Prevention (StraNas Stunting) 2017-2021 – from vision into reality. It looks at the country's ambitious reforms and goals to reduce stunting. It examines the government's plans to boost awareness about the economic, social and personal cost of stunting, to ensure a truly national "multi-sectoral" effort to tackle the problem at scale in a coordinated and cohesive fashion in communities across Indonesia. It chronicles past successes and setbacks, drawing lessons from them about the future. We think Indonesia is on a path towards new success: this time at scale. It is a story worthtelling.
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author Rokx, Claudia
Subandoro, Ali
Gallagher, Paul
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Subandoro, Ali
Gallagher, Paul
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title Aiming High : Indonesia's Ambition to Reduce Stunting
title_short Aiming High : Indonesia's Ambition to Reduce Stunting
title_full Aiming High : Indonesia's Ambition to Reduce Stunting
title_fullStr Aiming High : Indonesia's Ambition to Reduce Stunting
title_full_unstemmed Aiming High : Indonesia's Ambition to Reduce Stunting
title_sort aiming high : indonesia's ambition to reduce stunting
publisher World Bank, Washington, DC
publishDate 2018
url http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/913341532704260864/Aiming-high-Indonesias-ambition-to-reduce-stunting
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