LANSA Responsive Window II
Following a very successful and highly competitive Research Call for Proposals under LANSA’s 2nd Responsive Window opportunity in July-August 2015, seven groups of researchers and practitioners were awarded. The initiative was for our Pillar 3 research - aiming to define a suite of interventions in agriculture that have the potential to have positive impacts on nutrition outcomes, especially in women and children.
The grantees were: Action Against Hunger; BRAC Afghanistan; Institute for Financial Management and Research; University of Heidelberg; University of Queensland; University of Sydney; and Vaagdhara. They were formative and feasibility studies in India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Afghanistan, and delivered a body of research on potential interventions in agriculture designed to improve nutrition and health outcomes, especially in women and children.
LANSA received nearly 90 research proposals covering research in Afghanistan (3), Bangladesh (7), India (33) and Pakistan (35), as well as seven bids for multi-country studies.
Earlier in 2015, LANSA had in May-June requested ideas to support the Call via an online consultation hosted by United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation Global Forum on Food Security and Nutrition and many ideas received here helped to frame the Responsive Window Call. We received a total of 52 exchange-responses with brilliant ideas!
The successful research proposals and resulting research outputs were:
For Afghanistan:
- Promoting collective vegetables gardening by adolescent girls for reducing malnutrition in Afghanistan / BRAC Afghanistan (lead)
Nutrition Promotion and Collective Vegetable Gardening by Adolescent Girls: Feasibility Assessment from a Pilot in Afghanistan / BRAC Afghanistan (lead)
For Bangladesh:
- Household Duck rearing as a tool to combat malnutrition and poverty among rural communities in Bangladesh / University of Queensland, Australia (lead)
- Biochar Urine Nutrient Cycling for Health (BUNCH); A feasibility study of organic nutrient cycling to enhance homestead food production for improved nutrition / University of Heidelberg, Germany (lead)
- Feasibility of an integrated agriculture and nutrition behaviour change intervention to improve maternal and child nutrition in rural Bangladesh / University of Sydney, Australia (lead)
For India:
- Design suitable approach for promoting Nutrition Sensitive Farming System (NSFS) as foundation for Healthy tribal Community in Banswara, India / Vaagdhara (lead)
- Female agricultural labour and nutrition: resolving conflicting time demands / Institute for Financial Management and Research
For Pakistan:
- People's perspective and feasibility of Kitchen Gardening under different geographical and environmental contexts / Action Against Hunger, Pakistan
About LANSA Responsive Window opportunity
This facility seeks to engender a wider sense of engagement among national and regional stakeholders in the core challenge of improving the impact of agri-food systems, policies, programmes and interventions on nutrition.
For more information, contact Sangeetha Rajeesh , Research Uptake Manager for LANSA atsangeetha@mssrf.res.in