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    From the World Bank, a credit to nutrition in India

    The World Bank approved Thursday (Sept. 8) a mixture of credits and loans to India, with one centering on improving the nutrition of pregnant women and children.

    By Jenny Lei Ravelo // 07 September 2012
    The World Bank has approved $106 million to improve the health, diet and personal hygiene of pregnant women and children in India. Photo by: Curt Carnemark / World Bank / CC BY-NC-ND

    The World Bank approved Thursday (Sept. 8) a mixture of credits and loans to India, with one centering on improving the nutrition of pregnant women and children.

    A total of $106 million— the first of the bank’s two-phase loan — will go to the ICDS Systems Strengthening and Nutrition Improvement Project. The money will be used to improve government interventions in ensuring the health, diet and personal hygiene of pregnant women and children aged 3 years old and below.

    The project indicates a shift in the government’s focus. For years, India had been focusing on food-based interventions and on children aged 3 to 6 years old. However, research has shown that “undernourishment can begin before a child is even born, with the critical period continuing until she turns two,” World Bank Country Director Onno Rûhl said in a press release.

    Sixty percent of malnutrition cases in India are in the low-income states of Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh.

    The project will be financed by the International Development Association, the bank’s anti-poverty lending arm which will also be responsible for a $60 million watershed development project in the Indian state of Karnataka. The credit, also approved Thursday, is expected to benefit 160,000 farmer households in seven districts in Karnataka.

    In addition, the World Bank has approved a $100 million development policy loan for Himachal Pradesh, a mountain state in northern India. The money will be used to support the government’s “transformative actions” in the areas of energy, watershed management and tourism. The loan will come from the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development.

    Find World Bank projects and tenders in India, and see which organizations are working in the country. Read more development aid news online, and subscribe to The Development Newswire to receive top international development headlines from the world’s leading donors, news sources and opinion leaders — emailed to you FREE every business day.

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    • Jenny Lei Ravelo

      Jenny Lei Ravelo@JennyLeiRavelo

      Jenny Lei Ravelo is a Devex Senior Reporter based in Manila. She covers global health, with a particular focus on the World Health Organization, and other development and humanitarian aid trends in Asia Pacific. Prior to Devex, she wrote for ABS-CBN, one of the largest broadcasting networks in the Philippines, and was a copy editor for various international scientific journals. She received her journalism degree from the University of Santo Tomas.

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