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Combating malnutrition requires a coordinated effort across sectors. And while there is emerging evidence on the impact of nutrition-sensitive interventions within multisectoral programs, evidence on the costs, cost-effectiveness, and costs vs. benefits of nutrition-sensitive interventions is limited. This impedes the ability of funders, policymakers and program managers to make informed decisions about what interventions to prioritize in their resource constrained settings to improve nutrition outcomes and achieve nutrition-related development targets.
The Strengthening Economic Evaluation for Multisectoral Strategies for Nutrition (SEEMS-Nutrition) funded by BMGF from 2018 to 2023 aimed to fill this information gap. The project completed the below objectives:
Develop a common approach to measure the costs and benefits of multisectoral nutrition strategies delivered across countries and contexts, building on standard economic evaluation methods.
Collect cost data alongside on-going impact evaluations in order to analyze the cost-effectiveness and cost-benefit of nutrition-sensitive interventions delivered through multisectoral projects.
Ensure the common approach and its outputs respond to the needs of decision-makers who use this information in deciding which interventions to invest in, scale-up or recommend.
This website offers generic information on costing and economic evaluations. Explore the Common Approach Guidance Document and Tools to conduct cost or cost-effectiveness studies for supporting multisectoral nutrition programs. Visit the publications page to see how the Common Approach was applied in Malawi, Nepal, Bangladesh, and Burkina Faso.
The University of Washington Department of Global Health is leading this project in partnership with the Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN), International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI), Helen Keller International (HKI), Results for Development (R4D), and World Fish.