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“Raising a Daughter is like watering your neighbour’s garden”

Thursday, November 4th, 2010

Earlier this year I blogged about the new UN Agency for Women which was set up to improve the status of women across the world. This is part of a general movement to putting girls first in development. It’s definitely progress to see a new global structure and high-level discussion on the position of women, [...]

Posted in Anthropology, Nutrition, UN | 3 Comments »

Moving beyond MDG Silos

Thursday, September 23rd, 2010

The UN High-Level Summit concluded yesterday. The main headline is the $40 billion in commitments over the next five years for the Global Strategy for Women and Child Health. The real test will be whether donors deliver on these commitments, and are flexible enough in their definition of improving “women and child health” to take [...]

Posted in Aid, MDGs, Nutrition, Social Justice, UN, World Bank | 6 Comments »

Who’s really fighting hunger?

Wednesday, September 15th, 2010

ActionAid just released an excellent report on the world hunger situation taking a stark look at what’s going right, and wrong, and what we should be aiming towards. Two things jumped out at me immediately.

Posted in Aid, Nutrition, Social Justice, Uncategorized | 3 Comments »

Malnutrition in India: Social Change>Handouts

Wednesday, September 1st, 2010

This week’s Foreign Policy featured an excellent article by Dr. Purnima Menon on malnutrition in India. Given my frustrations, voiced in an earlier blog about the usual finger-pointing at cultural practices, I was heartened to see that Dr. Menon’s analysis took a more structural approach and argued for real social change over ‘more blind handouts’. [...]

Posted in Nutrition, Social Justice | 4 Comments »

‘Culture’ as an Excuse in Nutrition Policy

Monday, August 9th, 2010

The funny thing about the concept of ‘culture’ is the degree to which anthropologists (experts on culture) detest the term. From my years studying medical anthropology I also cringe whenever I see a report blaming culture for lack of progress in health. This occurs in all areas of global health, including nutrition. What role does [...]

Posted in Aid, NCD, Nutrition, World Bank | 11 Comments »

Just give the poor cash

Thursday, August 5th, 2010

An article in last week’s Economist made a strong case for conditional cash transfer schemes, which give stipends to the poor based on them meeting certain criteria such as school attendance for children and regular prenatal and antenatal health visits. Is it really that simple? Should we just give cash to the poor?

Posted in Aid, Nutrition, Social Justice | 3 Comments »

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