Lessons Learnt

Developing implementation research capacity: longitudinal evaluation of the King’s College London Implementation Science Masterclass, 2014–2019 The paper describes the development of the King’s College London ‘Implementation Science Masterclass’ (ISM), an innovative 2-day program that is currently in its sixth year of running. The authors describe the process and present participant experiences, lessons learned and next […]

Nutrition program adaptations and implementation science during COVID-19: The case of South Asia In this blog, the authors share their experiences with implementation challenges and solutions from three nutrition programs. Specifically how technology has been a valuable aid to frontline workers as they deliver nutrition services amidst COVID-19, and also that many research questions still […]

Mobile-Based Nutrition and Child Health Monitoring to Inform Program Development: An Experience From Liberia. BACKGROUND: Implementing complex nutrition and other public health projects and tracking nutrition interventions, such as women’s diet and supplementation and infant and young child feeding practices, requires reliable routine data to identify potential program gaps and to monitor trends in behaviors […]

Planning and Budgeting for Nutrition Programs in Tanzania: Lessons Learned From the National Vitamin A Supplementation Program. BACKGROUND: Micronutrient deficiency in Tanzania is a significant public health problem, with vitamin A deficiency (VAD) affecting 34% of children aged 6 to 59 months. Since 2007, development partners have worked closely to advocate for the inclusion of […]

Taking Severe Acute Malnutrition Treatment Back to the Community: Practical Experiences from Nutrition Coverage Surveys. The community-based management of acute malnutrition treatment model was introduced to respond to the limited coverage of the inpatient model. Yet until the introduction of quick and low-cost approaches to measuring coverage, its reach was unknown. Once the Coverage Monitoring […]

Learning from the design and implementation of large-scale programs to improve infant and young child feeding. BACKGROUND: Improving and sustaining infant and young child feeding (IYCF) practices requires multiple interventions reaching diverse target groups over a sustained period of time. These interventions, together with improved maternal nutrition, are the cornerstones for realizing a lifetime of […]

Sustainability and scaling-up analysis of community-based management of acute malnutrition: lessons learned from Burkina Faso. BACKGROUND: Community-based management of acute malnutrition (CMAM) is an effective strategy frequently implemented by nongovernmental organizations, but handing CMAM over to national health systems and scaling it up remains a great challenge. OBJECTIVE: To highlight the challenges to sustainability and scalability of […]

Strengthiening systems to support mothers in infant and young child feeding at scale. BACKGROUND: Systems strengthening is essential for implementation of large-scale nutrition interventions, including infant and young child feeding (IYCF), since rapid geographic expansion places additional burdens on service delivery systems. OBJECTIVE: To document approaches for building capacity and supporting programs to scale up […]

Scaling up zinc treatment of childhood diarrhoea in Bangladesh: theoretical and practical considerations guiding the SUZY Project. In 2003, the International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh (ICDDR,B), in partnership with the Bangladesh Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MOHFW) and the private sector embarked on a national exercise to scale up zinc treatment of […]

Lessons learned from implementation of a demonstration program to reduce the burden of anemia and hookworm in women in Yen Bai Province, Viet Nam. BACKGROUND: Iron deficiency, anemia and hookworm disease are important public health problems for women of reproductive age living in developing countries and affect the health of newborns and infants. Iron supplementation and […]