Wasting in South Asia – Consultation on building the evidence base for the policy and programme response
The one-day consultation on 16 November 2018 was organized by UNICEF in support of the No Wasted Lives Coalition mission and priorities. The organizers thank Saul Guerrero (Action Against Hunger USA) for facilitating the meeting; the two guest presenters, H.P.S. Sachdev (Sitaram Bhartia Institute of Science and Research) and Andrew Mertens (University of California, Berkeley); and Action Against Hunger UK and USA for logistic support. The meeting was supported by the UNICEF Regional Office for South Asia.
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A one-day consultation was held in New York on 16 November 2018 to examine the evidence on wasting in South Asia and guide the direction of future collaborative efforts of the No Wasted Lives coalition in the region. The consultation was organized by UNICEF with the following objectives: (1) to share the status of policy and programme action to care for severely wasted children in South Asia; and (2) to identify evidence gaps, research priorities and way forward to build the evidence base to inform the policy and programme response in South Asia. Members of No Wasted Lives and the Council of Research and Technical Advice on Acute Malnutrition (CORTASAM), researchers and academics were invited to join the consultation. There were 32 participants, including 13 participants who joined the meeting remotely.