Publication: Incentivizing Nutrition: Incentive Mechanisms to Accelerate Improved Nutrition Outcomes
Date
2016
ISSN
Published
2016
Author(s)
Laviolette, Luc
Gopalan, Sudararajan
Elder, Leslie
Wouters, Olivier
Abstract
Investing in nutrition will contribute
to achieving the World Bank’s dual goals of ending extreme
poverty and promoting shared prosperity. The coordinated
support of the international community is important to
optimizing the rising trend in nutrition investment, which
was galvanized by the global Scaling Up Nutrition (SUN)
movement, and reaffirmed at the 2012 World Health Assembly
where world leaders committed to reaching six global
nutrition targets by 2025. The report, Incentive Mechanisms
to Accelerate Improved Nutrition Outcomes—and the
accompanyingPractitioner’s Compendium—provide important
guidance for cost-effective multisectoral efforts to scale
up nutrition programming by incentivizing nutrition
interventions. Financial incentivesare one tool to support
nutrition interventions. However, incentives need to be
carefully chosen, underpinned by a clear theory of change,
and designed for particular contexts and objectives.When a
decision is taken to use financial incentives, the report
and compendium offer operational guidance to task teams and
leaders. They highlight the potential challenges and
strengths of the various mechanisms, and include country
examples and nutrition indicators to monitor progress at the
levels where the mechanism would exert its influence, i.e.,
national, sub-national,facility, community, households, or
individuals. It is intended for non-technical staff to
support their clients’ effortsto enhance the nutritional
impact of World Bank country investments. The report
providespractical advice to design and implement nutrition
interventions in future operations based on review of past
successful and less successful attempts. The recommendations
are organized bytype of financial incentive mechanism, which
correspond to the specific levels where the mechanismsexert
their influence, i.e., national, sub-national, facility,
community, households, or individuals, and also provides
information on the use of non-financial incentives.
Citation
“Laviolette, Luc; Gopalan, Sudararajan; Elder, Leslie; Wouters, Olivier. 2016. Incentivizing Nutrition : Incentive Mechanisms to Accelerate Improved Nutrition Outcomes. © World Bank, Washington, DC. http://openknowledge.worldbank.org/handle/10986/25870 License: CC BY 3.0 IGO.”