Link NCA guidelines

This chapter presents a general overview of the Link method for conducting a Nutrition Causal Analysis (NCA). It is intended to provide a global vision of the method before going through the detailed step by step guidelines.

The Link NCA is a flexible method that can be adapted to a variety of contexts and operational objectives. Until today, the Link NCA method has been conducted on 3 continents, in both rural and urban settings, volatile post-conflicts settings, as well as in refugee camps. With the recent optimisation of the quantitative component, Link NCA allows to study potential differences in causal mechanisms of wasting, stunting, underweight and anaemia.