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Intensifying Efforts To Reduce Child Malnutrition In India: An Evaluation Of The Dular Program In Jharkhand, India, T. Dubowitz, D. Levinson, Jerusha Nelson Peterman, G. Verma, S. Jacob, W. Schultink
Intensifying Efforts To Reduce Child Malnutrition In India: An Evaluation Of The Dular Program In Jharkhand, India, T. Dubowitz, D. Levinson, Jerusha Nelson Peterman, G. Verma, S. Jacob, W. Schultink
Jerusha Nelson Peterman
BACKGROUND: The Dular strategy is a unique nutrition initiative initiated by UNICEF India in collaboration with the states of Bihar and Jharkhand. Designed to complement the government's Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS) and build upon its infrastructure, one of the major goals of the Dular program is to capitalize and develop community resources at the grassroots level. The emphasis of the Dular program is on establishing a community-based tracking system of the health status of women and of children 0 to 36 months of age by neighborhood-based local resource persons (LRPs). The main objectives of the Dular program include increased …