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• Provision of Big Data Analytics (BDA) support and
KEY ACHIEVEMENTS
National Nutrition Resource Centre (NNRC) at the
Ministry of Women and Child Development (MoWCD):
The Trusts are the principal partner for the National
Nutrition Mission (Poshan Abhiyaan). As per the approved
design of the management and monitoring mechanism for
Poshan Abhiyaan, a single unified technical set-up, namely
the National Nutrition Resource Centre - Central Project
Management Unit (NNRC- CPMU), was established at the
central level within the MoWCD, in order to provide
knowledge management on nutrition actions and to
ensure regular monitoring and review of all the sectoral
programmes, especially those directly a ecting
malnutrition. The goals of the NNRC are:
(a) complimenting government e orts and amplifying
their impact on the ground; (b) expanding and
strengthening the quality of the nutrition programme’s
implementation and monitoring; and (c) supplementing
technical resources for e cient and timely rollout and to
operationalise the intended reforms in the nutrition
domain. Key achievements include:
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developing Behaviour Change Communications (BCC),
thereby technically supporting the CPMU.
• Coordinating with state-level ICDS functionaries and
consolidating the findings of national/regional level
consultations on early childhood development for
children (0-3 years).
• Developing the Governance Dashboard to produce
reports and factsheets for all of India that analyse
programmatic performance in relation to various
nutrition indicators.
Strengthening data analytics support to NITI Aayog
through the Technical Support Unit:
The Trusts facilitated the establishment of the Technical
Support Unit (TSU) at the Department of Women and
Child Development, NITI Aayog, Government of India,
which played a pivotal role in strengthening the Mission
Poshan 2.0 policy discourse. The TSU was instrumental in:
• Releasing progress reports for all states and Union
Territories in light of the release of findings of the
NFHS 5.
• Reviewing various proposals submitted by multiple
technical and on-ground partners to the Department
of Women and Child Development.
• Strengthening the Poshan Gyan portal with
curated literature and timely addition of Standard
Operating Procedures.
• Spearheading workshops on findings from NFHS 5,
Early Child Care and Education, role of gender in
improving child nutrition outcomes as well as a policy
discourse for Himachal Pradesh.