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May 27th, 2015

Is gender inequality the main roadblock to achieving nutrition targets? The Global Nutrition Report on gender equality

Published by Development Horizons, March 7th, 2015
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In this blog, Lawrence Haddad highlights the draw out messages about women and gender from the Global Nutrition Report. He highlights that improvements in nutrition are important to achieve gender equality and to empower all women and girls. Improvements in women’s nutritional status indicators, especially anemia rates in women of reproductive age, seem slow. Recommendations in the report suggest to involve women in a decision making way on the prioritization, design, implementation and evaluation of more nutrition sensitive interventions.

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