How can we produce a time series of childhood wasting estimates, accounting for climate impacts?
Child wasting is a key Sustainable Development Goal target and indicator (SDG 2.2b). Even before the COVID-19 pandemic 47 million children were already wasted (a life- threatening form of malnutrition) in 2019. However, in specific countries, survey results on wasting have a variance of 10-20%, meaning that trends arising from these surveys are difficult to interpret. Several factors impact the consistency of these survey results, one of which is climate and seasonality. UNICEF, as part of the Joint Malnutrition Es...
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UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH
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£138,000
Published
22 Feb 2022
Closes
4 Mar 2022
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United Kingdom
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Other related modelling exercises are also underway with UNICEF and other partners to help better estimation of wasting burden to support programming. The key objective of this project would be to collate and develop methods at a global scale that can be used for SDG monitoring, while maintaining links and creating synergies with other relevant projects as a...
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Child wasting is a key Sustainable Development Goal target and indicator (SDG 2.2b). Even before the COVID-19 pandemic 47 million children were already wasted (a life- threatening form of malnutrition) in 2019. However, in specific countrie...
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