To respond to the needs of the nutrition community, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Agile Core Team for Nutrition Monitoring (ACT-NM) group, a collaboration amongst UNICEF, USAID, WHO and USAID Advancing Nutrition, developed an analytical framework for exploring pathways for the impact of COVD-19 pandemic on key nutrition outcomes, according to a news release.
The comprehensive analytical framework encompasses the six maternal, infant, and young children nutrition targets endorsed by World Health Assembly (WHA), the outcomes monitored towards the elimination of malnutrition in all its forms, one of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) targets.
Linking the overarching categories of food, health, social protection, education, water, and sanitation to outcomes and impacts of COVID-19 on nutrition, the Analytical Framework is a useful tool that allows users to construct context-specific pathways to study the impact of COVID-19 and future shocks.
Healthcare professionals, community health workers, business owners, and policy makers can all delve into the impacts of a given shock, exploring various contexts that expand into underlying determinants. Policy makers can also click on the visualizer’s interactive features to expand, collapse, and build out their own pathways and explore the impacts of specific shocks, such as a lockdown or supply chain disruption. The tool allows for the download a pool of potential data sources for the several factors included in the framework, the data mapping tool.
