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Hugh Roderick I wish to introduce Hugh Roderick, a postdoc I met on my visit to the University of Leeds in the United Kingdom in September of this year, 2009. See what he has written, his picture is also included and please feel free to contact him if you are interested. He has also provided the names and contacts of his colleagues who are in this Project (Research Without Boundaries) with him. Click here for the full details

Nutrition Landscape Information System (NLIS)
Source: WHO

The NLIS is developed as a component of the Landscape Analysis on Countries' Readiness to Accelerate Action in Nutrition which was a project funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (http://www.who.int/nutrition/topics/landscape_analysis/en/index.html).

This web-based information system provides nutrition and nutrition-related health and development data in the form of both automated country profiles and user-defined downloadable data which pull together the data from the WHO Nutrition Databases dynamically.

The NLIS draws data for the country profiles from available databases.  Sources include WHO, UNICEF, UN Statistics Division, UNDP, FAO, DHS, the World Bank, IFPRI and ILO. The data from these partner agencies are updated every 2 months.  However, more recent data might be available from other sources, including in-country sources.

The NLIS is still work in progress and will continued to be in order to achieve continued enhancement and update.  The first phase has been accomplished and it has met the first milestone as one of the interagency products of the Landscape Analysis project, through achieving:

    • Improved access to comprehensive nutrition information across multiple sources from our partner agencies (Efficiency)

    • Combined information using the UNICEF conceptual framework which will facilitate and contribute to more integrated approaches to scaling up effective nutrition interventions (Integration)

    • Linked dynamically to WHO Global Nutrition Databases (Timeliness)

    • Easy access to quality information compiled by the partner agencies, leading to more informed decision-making (Accessibility)

    • Most indicators available for all countries (Comprehensiveness)

NLIS can be accessed directly at http://www.who.int/nutrition/nlis or through the NHD website at http://www.who.int/nutrition (see the right hand top corner).

Here is a copy of the NLIS launching presentation for your information.

Hope this will be of your interest.  For more information regarding the Nutrition Landscape Information System (NLIS) please send an email to nutrition@who.int.

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