This Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition, in partnership with Amway, has launched an interactive mapping tool to help track undernutrition and obesity in an effort to better inform policy and programs to tackle a set of issues that affects about half of the people on the planet.
The Malnutrition Mapping Project draws data from the World Health Organization, UNICEF and Lancet, and presents more than 40 indicators in a layered, searchable platform.
“The idea is to bring together the data that exists in a visual format that allows us not only to interrogate this great challenge of malnutrition in our own geographies of interest but also to build on, through partnership, that base — layering new ways of conceiving of malnutrition, layering new data sets that include not only the prevalences of these really alarming challenges but also the policies for example, or interventions we are designing to solve them,” said Dominic Schofield, director and senior technical advisor at GAIN. “To begin mapping that, I think, is really the beginning of a conversation: How do we work together using our core strengths to solve malnutrition?”
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