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Nutrition Causal Analysis (NCA) overview

A nutrition causal analysis (NCA) is a method for analysing the multicausality of undernutrition, as a starting point for improving the relevance and effectiveness of multi-sectoral nutrition security programming in a given context.

Publication date

1st January 2017

Author(s)

Action Against Hunger

This document 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.