Designing Effective Policies to Improve the Diets and Nutrition of Women of Reproductive Age in Cambodia, Ethiopia and Zambia - GCP/GLO/701/GER
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The Minimum Dietary Diversity for Women (MDD W) is a dichotomous indicator that evaluates whether women of reproductive age have consumed five out of ten food groups on the previous day, associated with a higher probability of the adequacy of 11 micronutrients. The indicator constitutes an important step towards filling the need of indicators for use in national and sub national level of assessments, target setting and advocacy. A range of United Nations agencies , as well as a number of international and regional organizations , have adopted MDD W as a corporate indicator for nutrition sensitive interventions. Based on the multistakeholder consultation and also opinions from nutrition assessment experts, further research was considered necessary to improve the operationalization of the MDD W. In order to address these questions, a project was designed for a multi country study following a standardized protocol to be conducted in three low income countries (Cambodia, Ethiopia and Zambia.