WASH and Nutrition Synergies : The Case of Tunisia

Cuesta, Jose ; Maratou-Kolias, Laura

Taylor and Francis

关键词: STUNTING;    SYNERGY;    UNICEF;    NUTRITION;    WATER AND SANITATION;   

DOI  :  10.1080/00220388.2018.1516870

学科分类：社会科学、人文和艺术（综合）

来源: World Bank Open Knowledge Repository

【 摘 要 】

This paper develops a simple econometric strategy to operationalize the United Nations Children’s Fund’s (UNICEF’s) conceptual framework for nutrition. It estimates the extent to which child stunting correlates with investments in water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) across population groups (poor and non-poor) and residence (urban and rural). Moving away from estimating single intervention marginal returns, the empirical framework of intervention packages is tested in Tunisia, a country with notable but uneven progress in reducing stunting. A successful nutritional strategy will thereby require mapping the distinctive intervention packages by residence and socioeconomic status, away from universal policies, that more strongly correlate with reduction in stunting.