What Does It Take To Create a Nutrition Program with Lasting Impact?

Malnutrition is a global health crisis of a staggering magnitude: Nearly 1.9 billion adults are overweight or obese, while another 462 million are underweight, according to the World Health Organization. And malnutrition is one of the leading causes of death for children under the age of 5, globally.

Effectively addressing malnutrition in all its forms will require interventions that maximize both impact and scale. Unfortunately, scaling high-impact nutrition interventions is more easily said than done — which is why stakeholders serious about reducing malnutrition need to think strategically and carefully about ease of implementation and delivery systems well before the implementation phase, according to Richard Kohl, president and lead strategy consultant at Strategy and Scale.

“Sometimes the best is the enemy of the good: it’s my experience that there are a lot of innovations with average impact out there that are a lot easier to implement than things that are high impact,” he said in an interview with Devex.

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