Project report
Indonesia - Investing in Nutrition and Early Years Project
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Summary
Written by AI, not yet AICS's view · claude-sonnet-5-5This is a project description for Indonesia's Investing in Nutrition and Early Years Project. Its aim is to increase the number of households in the first 1,000 days (pregnancy to age two) in priority districts that use several nutrition interventions at the same time. The document gives background on Indonesia's economic growth, falling poverty, rising inequality and progress in health and education. It argues that coordinating services from different sectors (a 'convergence' approach) can improve child health and development and help address stunting.
Key points
- The project objective is to increase simultaneous use of nutrition interventions by 1,000-day households in priority districts.
- Under-five mortality fell from 85 per 1,000 live births in 1990 to 26 in 2016.
- Inequality (Gini) rose from 30 in 2000 to 41 in 2014, the fastest widening in the East Asia and Pacific Region.
- Convergence of priority nutrition-specific and nutrition-sensitive interventions on households with pregnant mothers and children under two is low.
- There is said to be growing global and local evidence that a convergence approach can accelerate improvements in health and child development and help address stunting.
Limitations
The text is only a project description and context, with no results, data on the project's effects, or evaluation of the intervention. The evidence claim for the convergence approach is stated but not detailed or cited.
Abstract
The objective of the Investing in Nutrition and Early Years Project for Indonesia is to increase simultaneous utilization of nutrition interventions by 1,000‐day households in priority districts. Indonesia is the world’s largest archipelagic state, fourth most populous nation, and tenth‐largest economy in purchasing power parity terms. It is a member of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations group of countries as well as the G‐20. Indonesia has a population of more than 261 million, with 300 distinct ethnic groups and over 700 languages and dialects. With a gross national income per capita of about $3,440 (2015), Indonesia is classified as a lower middle‐income country. Indonesia has made significant gains in economic growth and poverty reduction in the past decade. Relatively strong economic growth (5.5 percent per year since 2000) has been accompanied by a sustained decline in poverty rates: about 31 percent and 6.8 percent of the population lived on $3.1 a day and $1.9 a day, respectively, in 2016, down from 82 percent and 48 percent, respectively, in 1998.1 However, Indonesia’s progress on poverty reduction contrasts sharply with its performance in sharing prosperity. Inequality, as measured by the Gini coefficient, increased from 30 points in 2000 to 41 points by 2014, by far the fastest widening in the East Asia and Pacific Region. The county’s strong growth and sustained investments in human capital, allocating 25 percent of the national budget to health and education, have translated into significant progress in service delivery and human development. In education, gross enrollment has reached 100 percent, 83 percent, and 32 percent in primary, secondary, and tertiary education, respectively; life expectancy at birth has steadily increased to 69 years in 2015, up from 63 years in 1990; and the under‐five mortality rate has declined from 85 per 1,000 live births in 1990 to 26 in 2016. Furthermore, the convergence of priority nutrition‐specific and nutrition‐sensitive interventions on households with pregnant mothers and children under two is low. There is growing global and local evidence that a ‘convergence’ approach, in which multisectoral interventions are coordinated to jointly target priority geographic areas and beneficiaries, is critical to accelerating improvements in health and child development outcomes and can help address stunting. (Indonesia)