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Review of National Nutrition Surveillance Systems Timely, reliable data are crucial to enable routine monitoring of the well-being of a population and to facilitate the detection of deleterious trends in the status of nutrition and health in a given country or specific region of a country. Download
Food and Nutrition Surveillance Systems Food and nutrition policies and programmes that improve the health and nutritional status of the population require a strong evidence base and capacity to measure outcomes. Download
Designing Effective Data Visualizations National nutrition information systems (NNIS) can be “data rich” but “information poor” without a thoughtful strategy on how to transform data into actionable evidence.1 One strategy is data visualization, which involves the use of graphic displays of data to tell a story. Download
Nutrition Data Value Chain An effective national nutrition information system (NNIS) essentially functions as a nutrition data value chain that collects and analyses nutrition-related data to support informed, evidence based decision-making. Download
Assessing a National Nutrition Information System Periodic operational assessments can be a valuable tool for understanding the functionality, utility and quality of a national nutrition information system (NNIS). These assessments can yield critical insights on how well the system is working and how it can be improved. They also have the flexibility to look at a full NNIS or specific aspects of it, depending on the purpose, objective and scope of the assessment Download