Community Mobilization for Nutrition Mission

Dr. Ananya Awasthi, Assistant Director, India Research Center, spoke about the importance of “Jan Andolan” or community mobilization for National Nutrition Mission at the Poshan (Nutrition) Innovation Awards-2019, which were hosted by Outlook Media in New Delhi. 

Dr. Awasthi described the key inputs from the stakeholder consultation held with the Child Development Program Officers at India Research Center, applied learnings from the science of social and behavioural change communication for nutrition, and shared contextual examples of community led practices that can be used as platforms to sustain the demand for improved health and nutrition services.