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Revisiting Public Provisioning for Child Nutrition During and Beyond the Pandemic 22 January, 2021

India’s policy framework includes many proven nutrition interventions. The Government of India already has large-scale schemes and programmes in place to address food insecurity and malnutrition. Despite that, malnutrition continues to remain a challenge in India. The recently released NFHS-5 shows that in some of the states the prevalence of malnutrition among children has increased. While all these data pertain to the period before the Covid-19 pandemic, it can only be expected that the situation is much worse off or may further deteriorate. At this juncture, it is important to discuss and understand the requirement of public provisioning related to nutrition services to children, along with the budgetary support that exists for other social sectors.

In this context, CBGA and Child Rights and You (CRY) had organised a Webinar on 22nd January 2021 (2:30 pm to 4:30 pm). The Webinar brought together academics, policy experts, practitioners from the grassroots and NGOs focusing on child nutrition and health to discuss the aforesaid issues and challenges in the context of the approaching Union Budget and State Budgets for 2021-22.