Measuring Governance: Developing a Novel Metric for Assessing Whether Policy Environments are Conducive for the Development and Implementation of Nutrition Interventions in Nepal.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The Nutrition Governance Index (NGI) defines a first standardized approach to quantifying the 'quality of governance' in relation to national plans of action to accelerate improvements in nutrition. It was created in response to growing demand for evidence-based measures that reveal opportunities and challenges as nutrition-related policies on paper are translated into outcomes on the ground. Numerous past efforts to measure 'governance,' most notably World Health Organization's (WHO's) NGI and the separate Hunger and Nutrition Commitment Index (HANCI), both of which lack granularity below the national level and each of which fails to capture pinch points related to necessary cross-sectoral actions. This paper addresses such caveats by introducing an innovative metric to

SUBMITTER: Namirembe G 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9278471 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature