🆕#DataDENT Blog 📣
📊Lessons from Bangladesh’s ONCS
Efficiency isn’t asking fewer questions, it’s better planning, prioritization & low respondent burden.
🛠 Prioritize planning.⏱ Keep focused. 🎯 Sample smart. 🔍 Measure carefully.
📰 Read more 👉 bit.ly/4sNHtZ4
🆕#DataDENT Brief + Blog 📣
New guiding questions to help countries decide when and how to invest in food & nutrition data across the nutrition data value chain. Based on assessments in Ethiopia and Nigeria.
📄Brief bit.ly/4sOPQTT
📰Blog bit.ly/4s9wbOr
📢 New Resource: Building Nutrition Data Literacy using the Six Questions Approach. A practical guide to strengthen critical engagement with nutrition data across the data value chain and support informed decision-making.
👉 bit.ly/4aCqylC
📢Looking to invest in strengthening food & nutrition data systems?
#DataDENT’s Cost Considerations Tool 🧰📊 + User Guide supports planning, budgeting, and prioritization, with monetary💰 & non-monetary 🕰️👤💻 insights on resource implications.
👉https://bit.ly/4c1QCrq
Planning a household survey to measure nutrition intervention coverage? 🧰🏠📊
Explore the #DataDENT toolkit from the One Nutrition Coverage Survey (ONCS) in Bangladesh for practical tools you can adapt to support multisectoral nutrition coverage measurement in your context.
👉https://bit.ly/46gN2Wq
🆕#DataDENT Brief 📰 📣
Our latest brief presents findings from an assessment of Ethiopia’s national food and nutrition data ecosystem, highlighting opportunities to strengthen multisectoral data systems.
Explore the full brief and resources 👉 bit.ly/49AAA69
📢#ICYMI Check out our December webinar Strengthening MMS Monitoring Systems.
It focused on the need for countries to adapt national information systems to monitor the IFA to #MMS transition.
👉Watch the recording here: bit.ly/4qjmxrk
DataDENT wishes happy holidays and a wonderful new year!
Figure 1. Process map for how UNISE was designed to operate according to F-PDU
Figure 2. Process map for how RTPM was designed to operate according to F-PDU
New #DataDENT Brief 📰 📣
Our latest brief presents findings from a qualitative assessment of two innovative multisectoral nutrition data systems implemented by the Ethiopian Ministry of Health.
Learn more about our findings and recommendations 👉 bit.ly/3MJBpkg
🚨 Happening today!
Join us to hear about “Strengthening MMS Monitoring Systems: Insights from Country Experiences.”
🔗 Register here: lnkd.in/efDVy2v3
If you face any problem in registering, watch the webinar live on YouTube: bit.ly/4qjmxrk
Join our webinar tomorrow on MMS monitoring
📅 Date & Time: Thursday, December 18, 2025, 8 am ET / 2 pm CET
🔗 Register at: lnkd.in/efDVy2v3
Learn more 👉 bit.ly/48LE5q8
Join us for the webinar, "Strengthening MMS Monitoring Systems: Insights from Country Experiences," hosted by DfN, DataDENT, & HMHB.
📅 Date & Time: Thursday, December 18, 2025, 8 am ET / 2 pm CET
🔗 Register at: lnkd.in/efDVy2v3
Learn more 👉 bit.ly/4a5FM2G
image 1. Sunny Kim, IFPRI, presenting during the side-event at the D4N2025 conference in Nepal
Image 2, A team member from icddr,b, presenting during the side-event at the D4N2025 conference in Nepal
Image 3. Aklima Parvin, IFPRI having a dialogue with Prof. Nazma Shaheen from the University of Dhaka, Bangladesh on data needs and uses for tracking coverage
Image 4. Swetha Manohar, IFPRI, presenting findings from inequalities in co-coverage of multisector nutrition interventions
The same day, Swetha Manohar presented findings on “Measuring Inequalities in Co-Coverage of Multi-Sector Nutrition Interventions: Findings from Bangladesh's One Nutrition Coverage Survey.”
Learn more 👉 bit.ly/4iG7ghu
On Tuesday, at #D4N2025 regional conference in Kathmandu #DataDENT co-hosted a side-event entitled “Who is being reached? Advancing coverage measurement of multisectoral nutrition interventions.” Scroll down 👇
Image 1. DataDENT team member Sunny Kim from IFPRI is presenting at the dissemination event
Image 2. Participants at the dissemination event in Bangladesh
Image 3. IFPRI and the icddr,b team at the Bangladesh dissemination event
Last week, #DataDENT IFPRI co-hosted a dissemination in Bangladesh to share findings from formative research on multisectoral nutrition intervention coverage measurement and the ONCS with government leaders, researchers, & development partners.
Learn more: bit.ly/440p1C2
We applied the framework in Bangladesh and Ethiopia to estimate three aggregated indicators: anemia control in women of reproductive age, prevention of stunting in children under 2, and vitamin A control in children.
Check out the blog 👉 bit.ly/43QP6U2
New #DataDENT blog 🚀 🆕
In our November blog, DataDENT shares our flexible methodological framework for multisector nutrition co-coverage and composite coverage analysis. Scroll down 👇
Figure 1. Comparing study phases in Ethiopia (ET) and Bangladesh (BD). CPW = Currently pregnant women; RDW = Recently delivered women; Pharm = Pharmacy staff; HW = Healthcare worker; RS = Retail staff
New #DataDENT Research Brief 📰 📣
Our latest research brief shares formative research findings in Ethiopia and Bangladesh to update household survey questions & visual aids for measuring coverage of micronutrient supplements during pregnancy.
Learn more 👉 bit.ly/48dY2FA
🚨 Happening today!
Join us to hear about NIPN’s experience with Data Visualization Tools for Nutrition.
🔗 Register here: lnkd.in/exxhvQ63
If you face any problem in registering, watch the webinar live on YouTube: bit.ly/4ozTije
📢 Join us tomorrow at the NIPN Global Coordination and DfN co-hosted webinar on "Data Visualization Tools for Nutrition: The NIPN experience"
📅 Thursday, November 13, 2025
⏰ 8:00 AM (ET)/ 2:00 PM (CET)
🔗 Register today 👉 lnkd.in/exxhvQ63
Image1. R4D Country Director, Yosel Alemu, presenting at the Ethiopia Dissemination Event, October 31, 2025, P.C: DataDENT
Image 2. Participants at the Ethiopia Dissemination Event, October 31, 2025, P.C: DataDENT
Last week, DataDENT hosted an event in Addis Ababa to disseminate outputs from two DataDENT activities in Ethiopia. Over 50 representatives from the government and partners organizations attended.
Learn more 👇
bit.ly/Ethiopia-dis...
Figure 1. Anemia control in pregnant women: comparing co-coverage in Addis Ababa vs Somali region
Photo. DataDENT team member is presenting co-coverage and composite coverage analysis work at the Africa Regional Dialogue on Data for Action in Food Fortification in Addis Ababa. P.C DataDENT
Today #DataDENT presented our work on co-coverage and composite coverage analysis of multisector nutrition interventions at the Africa Regional Dialogue on Data for Action in Food Fortification in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
Learn more 👉 bit.ly/DataDENT_Afr...
Join the webinar on "Data visualization tools for Nutrition" hosted by the Data for Nutrition Community of Practice and NIPN Global Coordination.
📅 Thursday, November 13, 2025
⌚ 8 am ET/ 2 pm CET
Learn more 👉 bit.ly/NIPN-DfN-Web...
Image 1. The four cognitive stages
New #DataDENT blog 🚀 🆕
Our October blog shares how cognitive testing in Ethiopia and Bangladesh helped us improve household survey questions about coverage of nutrition-sensitive social protection (NSSP).
Check it out 👉 bit.ly/47fFvHl
Last week, the Nigerian Federal Ministry of Education (FME) organized a validation meeting on the Education Sector Brief in collaboration with #DataDENT and Nutrition Agriculture and Health Initiative. Learn more 👉 bit.ly/4nexGrv
Fig. Conceptual framework for the capacity to demand and use evidence (This figure is adapted from Rodriguez et al. originally published in Health Research Policy and Systems by Springer Nature)
New #DataDENT research findings 📢
Assessing institutional capacities to demand and use nutrition data for decision making in Nigeria’s health sector: A mixed methods study
Check out the article in the Journal of Health Research Policy and Systems 👉 bit.ly/46BwGXO
Image 1. Researcher from DataDENT partner icddr,b is interviewing a pharmacy seller in Bangladesh as part of the market assessment, PC: DataDENT
New #DataDENT blog 🚀 🆕
DataDENT’s September blog reflects on challenges of monitoring the introduction & scale-up of MMS globally through research in Ethiopia & Bangladesh & engagement with stakeholders working in the IFA to MMS transition.
Check it out 👉 bit.ly/3W4Etsq
Figure. Heat map of aggregation methodologies identified by index domain of measurement (n = 54).
New #DataDENT research findings 📢
Measuring multi-sector nutrition and health intervention coverage using composite coverage analysis methods: A scoping review
Check out the article in VeriXiv preprint 👉 bit.ly/42B8uDN
Figure 1. Activity categories with monetary costs across the data value chain
New #DataDENT blog 🚀 🆕
In our September blog, the DataDENT team addresses the challenge of costing investments in the food & nutrition data value chain. We introduce a forthcoming decision tool.
Check it out 👉 bit.ly/3I9AYO7
New #DataDENT blog 🚀 🆕
In our August blog, the DataDENT Nigeria team shares assessment findings from four sectors where along the nutrition data value chain each sector should invest.
Check it out 👉 bit.ly/45IOeCm