Summary of publication

Within strategies to improve nutrition, social protection has been promoted as a key instrument to reach those most in need and to address underlying causes of malnutrition.

This guidance note:

• aims to equip aid administrators and practitioners working on social protection programs and familiar with the policy context to understand the challenges and potential of social protection to improve nutrition
• outlines how social protection can help to tackle nutrition issues
• includes information on what to consider when identifying a program of work, program design and redesign, implementation and review and, monitoring and evaluation.

Full publication

• Social protection and nutrition: Guidance note [PDF 798 KB]
• Social protection and nutrition: Guidance note [DOCX 1.5 MB]