PANChSHEEEL: Participatory Approach for Nutrition in Children, Strengthening HEEE Linkage
Evidence has shown that adopting an integrated holistic approach to the designing of solutions is more effective at supporting recovery and development.
About PANChSHEEEL: Participatory Approach for Nutrition in Children: Strengthening Health, Education, Environment and Engineering Linkages. PANChSHEEEL is an inter-disciplinary MRC (Medical Research Council) funded study, designed to bring together partners from the UK (UCL) and India (SCI, IIT Delhi and JNU) to explore the Health-Education-Engineering-Environment factors that influence Infant and Young Child Feeding (IYCF) practices and nutrition in India.
The World Bank identified under-prioritisation of nutrition and health education as a barrier to progress while the 2016-2030 global strategy emphasises the need to integrate multisector enablers that address education, gender, sanitation, water, agriculture and nutrition. India faces a triple burden of childhood malnutrition: 48% (61 million) under-five's are stunted, childhood obesity is on the rise, and most have a micronutrient deficiency. The Government of India has been implementing key nutrition and behaviour change interventions through three cadres of frontline workers but barriers include outreach, variable levels of sanitation, social-inequity and the feasibility and effectiveness of localised integration.
