Catch them young : the Tamil Nadu Integrated Nutrition Project - taking nutrition and health services to the villages

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Over the past two decades, the World Bank has taken the lead in lending for projects that support nutrition, health, population, reproductive health, and education programs in developing countries. Of the nutrition projects implemented around the world, the Tamil Nadu Integrated Nutrition Program in India has been one of the most successful. The project has contributed significantly to a reduction in malnutrition and infant mortality in the state and has generated popular participation. Various lessons emerge from this project that are worthy of wide dissemination, both because they are replicable and because they offer design changes that may be made in similar projects. Nutrition projects are, by nature, multidisciplinary. A large number of people of varied backgrounds take part in their design and implementation, ranging from community workers to international experts in various fields. For this reason, a nontechnical presentation of project lessons may be more effective in reaching

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