About the theme
There are multiple government schemes and programmes to address different the malnutrition challenge in India to reach the goals of ending hunger, achieving food security and improving nutrition. The Tata Trusts support many of these schemes and programmes and provide the necessary assistance to scale up. Areas that the Tata Trusts work on are:
- Improving coverage of services under important nutrition schemes and programmes
- Leveraging technology to improve nutrition governance
- Providing the necessary equipment and technical know-how to grassroots level implementation agencies
- Conducting surveys to assess before and after scenarios during programme implementation and measure impact
- Providing resources at the district level for programme implementation
- Supporting government officials overcome challenges that may arise during nutrition programme implementation
- Supporting capacity building of frontline functionaries
- Supporting implementation in terms of programme monitoring and optimisation
