Health and Nutrition

IPE has sectoral expertise in almost all areas of health and nutrition including policy, planning, service delivery, hospital management, Behaviour Change Communication (BCC), health financing and health and nutrition services improvement. IPE has been privileged to work on several large health and nutrition sector reform programmes in India apart from working with the Global Fund for AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (GFATM).To view a list of projects in the health and nutrition sector, click here.

We believe that Health is the major determinant of the quality of life and features in 3 of the 8 Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). The MDGs prioritise reducing child mortality, reducing maternal mortality and combating AIDS, malaria and other diseases as the first step towards a more equitable and fair world. The debilitating effect of ill-health on poverty is also well recorded. Hence, an investment in health sector has a large impact on well-being of the people, especially the poor and the vulnerable.

Nutrition is another area critical to a nation's future and is included in the first MDG as ‘Reducing poverty and hunger’. Several countries with otherwise mid-level health indicators show poor performance in nutrition highlighting the need for focused attention in this area. In several of our health sector programmes, we have worked to integrate health reforms with the nutrition and sanitation interventions for ensuring a sustainable solution.

Our expert team of health and nutrition specialists along with the related practice experts help local, state and national governments improve their public health systems and services. Some key areas of support by IPE have been:

Strategic Planning for the health sector
Large scale programme design for health sector
Managing large sector reform programmes in the health sector
Enhancing convergence between health and related programmes
Better understanding of health finances
Reform Communication to functionaries
Capacity Building of health and nutrition officials / workers
Monitoring and Evaluation of health programmes
Mainstreaming reforms in health sector
Enhanced monitoring through Health MIS
Preparation of BCC strategy and material for health and nutrition
Procurement reforms in health sector
Improving Hospital Management
Innovative use of technology
Organisational review and development of health departments
Evidence based decision making for health policies