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      Successful strategies to reduce adolescent fertility and advance ASRHR by studying positive outlier countries that achieved sustained progress.

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      From 1992 to 2017, Senegal cut its stunting rate in half, from 34 to 17 percent.

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    • Family Planning

      Cross Country Synthesis

      Common drivers, lessons, and insights that shaped their achievements and that can support decisionmakers across contexts to allocate resources more effectively, craft evidence-based policies, and identify critical gaps that require additional analysis.

    • Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights

      Cross Country Synthesis

      Successful strategies to reduce adolescent fertility and advance ASRHR by studying positive outlier countries that achieved sustained progress.

    • Stunting

      Senegal

      From 1992 to 2017, Senegal cut its stunting rate in half, from 34 to 17 percent.

    • Community health workers

      Brazil

      Brazil's community health workers help nearly two-thirds of the population access health care.

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Stunting

Perspectives

Stunting

  • Overview
  • What is childhood stunting?
  • Why is it difficult to solve?
  • What are our global goals?
  • Perspectives
  • Technical Advisory Group
  • Methodology

Perspectives

6 Perspectives

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How does vaccine coverage impact stunting? Was it a key factor in any of the stunting exemplar countries?

How should  policy-makers  think about whether to invest in nutrition sensitive or nutrition specific interventions? What is the relative contribution of each in reducing stunting rates?

What was the role of cash transfers in reducing stunting in Exemplar countries?

How important are investments in Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene in reducing stunting across Exemplar countries? How does the observed impact in Exemplar countries relate to the recent mixed RCT results?

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Technical Advisory Group

Sections

  • Overview
  • What is childhood stunting?
  • Why is it difficult to solve?
  • What are our global goals?

Appendix

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