By John Heller
Despite huge efforts by the Indian government and others, child under-nutrition has declined only slightly since independence. India maintains the largest government supplementary feeding programme in the world, the Integrated Child Development Service. India has ample human, financial and organizational capacity to address the issue. And yet the problem persists. What is missing is effective collaboration among the diverse stakeholders.
This article for Alliance magazine examines the process used to build and sustain collaboration among a broad range of participants in the Partnership for Child Nutrition in India.