Despite best efforts, significant gaps persist between global nutrition targets and actual achievements. These gaps reflect the well-recognised implementation challenge in nutrition – the gap between knowledge of what works and the implementation of proven interventions to achieve coverage and impact at scale. Implementation science and research can help identify and address challenges to implementation. This session will focus on the role of implementation research for strengthening the planning, delivery, or scale up of nutrition interventions.

Panellists:

  • Neeta Goel, Senior Program Officer, Monitoring, Learning and Evaluation, BMGF;
  • Purnima Menon, Senior Research Fellow, IFPRI;
  • Suneetha Kadiyala, Professor of Global Nutrition, LSHTM; and
  • Carolyn Huang, Senior Evaluation Specialist, 3ie;

Chair: David de Ferranti, Director and Head of Washington Office, 3ie