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Kalyani Raghunathan

Kalyani Raghunathan is Research Fellow in the Poverty, Gender, and Inclusion Unit, based in New Delhi, India. Her research lies at the intersection of agriculture, gender, social protection, and public health and nutrition, with a specific focus on South Asia and Africa. 

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Nutrition, Diets, and Health

Talla Fall

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Talla Fall

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Talla Fall is a Research Analyst with the Nutrition, Diets, and Health Unit, and is working in an outposted capacity.

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Rapport inventaire, les systèmes alimentaires au Sénégal

2023
Fall, Cheickh Sadibou; Faye, Ndeye Fatou; Kasse, Moustapha; Mane, Cherif; Diakhate, Finda Bayo; Sirdey, Ninon; Marivoet, Wim; Hema, Aboubacar; Seye Dioum, Ndeye Khoudia Laye; Thiao, Ibrahima Paul
…more Thiam, El Hadji Momar; Ba Bocoum, Dieynaba; Gueye, Fatou Goumbo; Badiane, Abdou; Thioye, Yoro Idrissa; Gueye, Momar Talla; Ba, El Hadji Malick
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Rapport inventaire, les systèmes alimentaires au Sénégal

Depuis la pandémie de COVID-19 et plus récemment la crise russo-ukrainienne, la problématique de construire des systèmes alimentaires résilients et durables est devenue une urgence pour la plupart des pays d’Afrique au Sud du Sahara (ASS) dont le Sénégal. Très récemment, le Gouvernement du Sénégal à travers le Ministère de l’Agriculture de l’Équipement Rural et de la Souveraineté Alimentaire (MAERSA) a validé le Programme Alimentaire pour la Souveraineté Alimentaire Durable (PASAD 2021-2025). Malgré tout, les gouvernements sont confrontés de façon générale au défi de garantir que les systèmes alimentaires offrent à leurs populations de multiples avantages et ceci de manière efficace, équitable et durable. Néanmoins, les politiques restent encore souvent déconnectées et ainsi génèrent des résultats suboptimaux. Pour y remédier, un changement de paradigme ainsi qu’un renforcement des capacités institutionnelles et humaines tant au niveau national et infranational sont nécessaires afin de pouvoir formuler et implémenter des interventions programmatiques réellement intégrées. Et même si, au niveau local, des innovations transforment déjà les systèmes alimentaires locaux en les rendant plus résilients face aux multiples chocs, la déconnexion entre ces dynamiques locales, d’une part, et les processus politiques et les engagements d’investissement du secteur public, d’autre part, demeure. L’objectif global de ce rapport inventaire est de présenter les systèmes alimentaires au Sénégal en passant en revue les différentes définitions, caractéristiques et cadres conceptuels théoriques, les principales politiques alimentaires implémentées au fil des années, les initiatives nationales récemment entreprises ainsi qu’une identification des gaps de connaissance et des mécanismes politiques. De façon générale, ce rapport rentre dans le cadre d’une recherche collaborative entre l’IFPRI et l’ISRA/BAME qui vise à renforcer les capacités et les politiques sénégalaises pour une transformation durable et équitable de ses systèmes alimentaires.

Year published

2023

Authors

Fall, Cheickh Sadibou; Faye, Ndeye Fatou; Kasse, Moustapha; Mane, Cherif; Diakhate, Finda Bayo; Sirdey, Ninon; Marivoet, Wim; Hema, Aboubacar; Seye Dioum, Ndeye Khoudia Laye; Thiao, Ibrahima Paul; Thiam, El Hadji Momar; Ba Bocoum, Dieynaba; Gueye, Fatou Goumbo; Badiane, Abdou; Thioye, Yoro Idrissa; Gueye, Momar Talla; Ba, El Hadji Malick

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Fall, Cheickh Sadibou; Faye, Ndeye Fatou; Kasse, Moustapha; Mane, Cherif; Diakhate, Finda Bayo; Sirdey, Ninon; Marivoet, Wim; Hema, Aboubacar; et al. 2023. Rapport inventaire, les systèmes alimentaires au Sénégal. Dakar, Senegal: Institut Sénégalais de Recherches Agricoles/Bureau d’Analyses Macro-Economiques. https://www.bameinfopol.info/publication-du-rapport-inventaire-les-systemes-alimentaires-au-senegal-par-le.html

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Senegal

Keywords

Western Africa; Sub-saharan Africa; Africa; Coronavirus; Covid-19; Capacity Development; Coronavirinae; Conflicts; Coronavirus Disease; Food Systems

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French

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Open Access

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Reducing child wasting through integrated prevention and treatment in Mali

2023Huybregts, Lieven; Diop, Loty; Diatta, Ampa D; Fall, Talla; Ouedraogo, Moctar; Barba, Francisco; Sawadogo, Abdoulaye; Becquey, Elodie
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Reducing child wasting through integrated prevention and treatment in Mali

Wasting is a persistent public health problem affecting 45.4 million children under five years of age worldwide. Wasting is responsible for the deaths of 875,000 children under the age of five every year. Children who survive often suffer long-term damage to their cognitive and physical development. Member countries of the World Health Assembly (WHA) have agreed to reduce and maintain the prevalence of wasting to less than 5 percent by 2025. Despite the commitment to tackle wasting, however, only one country in West Africa is on course to meet the WHA target. In contrast, seven countries, including Mali, have made no progress or have a worsening situation. In Mali, estimates from 2020 show prevalence levels of 9.3 percent, with critical regional disparities. Existing programs that aim to prevent or treat child wasting exist but typically suffer from low coverage and tend to be poorly integrated. While both strengthened prevention and treatment of wasting hold the potential to impact child wasting, substantial synergies can be expected when prevention is integrated with screening, referral, and treatment services. Such integration should happen at the community level to maximize the accessibility of services for caregivers and their children. Since the introduction of Mali’s national infant and young child feeding strategy in 2012 (Ministère de la Santé du Mali 2012), community care groups called Nutrition Action Support Groups (NASGs) have taken center stage in delivering preventive behavior change communication (BCC) on infant and young child feeding (IYCF) practices and child health. However, to leverage the impact of these efforts on child wasting, NASG services need to be extended to support existing community-based treatment services and to prevent any posttreatment relapse. Further evidence is needed on the coverage and quality of implementation of these community groups, as existing evidence is scarce.

Year published

2023

Authors

Huybregts, Lieven; Diop, Loty; Diatta, Ampa D; Fall, Talla; Ouedraogo, Moctar; Barba, Francisco; Sawadogo, Abdoulaye; Becquey, Elodie

Citation

Huybregts, Lieven; Diop, Loty; Diatta, Ampa D.; Fall, Talla; Barba, Francisco; and Becquey, Elodie. 2023. Reducing child wasting through integrated prevention and treatment in Mali. IFPRI Policy Note July 2023. Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute.

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Mali

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Western Africa; Child Wasting; Malnutrition; Public Health; Screening

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English

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Open Access

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Sustainable Healthy Diets

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Operationalizing the RE-AIM framework to evaluate complex interventions: Lessons learned from the Integrated Research on Acute Malnutrition (IRAM) study

2023Huybregts, Lieven; Diatta, Ampa D.; Diop, Loty; Touré, Mariama; Fall, Talla; Becquey, Elodie
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Operationalizing the RE-AIM framework to evaluate complex interventions: Lessons learned from the Integrated Research on Acute Malnutrition (IRAM) study

The use of theories, models and evaluation frameworks to design and evaluate interventions has now taken center stage in implementation science. The RE-AIM framework is one of the most used frameworks to plan and evaluate the implementation of interventions. RE-AIM framework is not only useful for researchers but also allows program implementers to broaden and structure their analysis to strengthen program implementation, design a performant monitoring and evaluation framework or conduct implementation research. The framework’s key dimensions are reach and effectiveness (at an individual level), adoption and implementation (at actor, staff, system, or policy/other levels), and maintenance (both at individual and actor/staff/system/policy levels) (Box 1). The utilization of the RE-AIM framework is not limited to assessing if a program reaches satisfactory levels of each dimension, but also aims at understanding the barriers and facilitating factors of each dimension. Furthermore, it recommends identifying which subgroups of actors or settings demonstrate good or poor adoption and implementation and to assess which subgroups of program beneficiaries benefit most from good intervention reach and effectiveness. Whereas most experience with RE-AIM comes from public health and behavioral studies conducted in high-income countries, the framework has been increasingly used for programs and interventions implemented in low-and middle-income countries and in a variety of thematic fields. Furthermore, the framework has been extensively used to assess the implementation of interventions consisting of few components. For the assessment of multi-component interventions, one way of applying RE-AIM to is first decompose the multi-components intervention into single components or activities and evaluate every component separately. However, such complex interventions can consist of intervention components or services that are either sequenced, layered, or integrated which may require an extension of the existing RE-AIM framework to evaluate the interaction between intervention components or services. This technical brief provides an example on how RE-AIM was operationalized by the Integrated Research on Acute Malnutrition (IRAM) which assessed the implementation and impact of a complex intervention package. The IRAM intervention aimed at strengthening various services along the continuum of care of child wasting in Mali. IRAM defined the continuum of care of child wasting as a series of services offered by different providers at various levels of care (household, community, facility) that cover the prevention of wasting, the screening for wasting, the referral of cases to treatment services, the admission and treatment of cases, and the post-treatment follow-up and prevention of relapse. We first show how REAIM was applied on single IRAM intervention components and services. We then highlight a few limitations that we encountered with RE-AIM for a complex intervention package and propose how to extend RE-AIM for interventions or services that are sequenced, layered, or integrated.

Year published

2023

Authors

Huybregts, Lieven; Diatta, Ampa D.; Diop, Loty; Touré, Mariama; Fall, Talla; Becquey, Elodie

Citation

Huybregts, Lieven; Diatta, Ampa D.; Diop, Loty; Touré, Mariama; Fall, Talla; and Becquey, Elodie. 2023. Operationalizing the RE-AIM framework to evaluate complex interventions: Lessons learned from the Integrated Research on Acute Malnutrition (IRAM) study. IFPRI Technical brief June 2023. Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute.

Country/Region

Mali

Keywords

Western Africa; Research; Public Health; Child Wasting; Malnutrition

Language

English

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Open Access

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Source record

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Sustainable Healthy Diets

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Brief