ACKNOWLEDGMENTS T
he Global Nutrition Report’s Independent Expert Group (IEG) would like to acknowledge the support and contributions of a large number of people and organizations who made the development and delivery of the 2014 report possible.
We would like to thank the writing and data analysis team:
Lawrence Haddad, Jessica Fanzo, Kamilla Eriksen, and Komal Bhatia, with help from Julia Krasevec. We also thank the Report Secretariat, based at the Institute of Development Studies (IDS) and coordinated by Tara Shyam.
The IEG is grateful to the International Food Policy Re-
search Institute’s Director General Shenggen Fan and Director of Communications and Knowledge Management (CKM) Gwendolyn Stansbury, as well as to CKM team members Tamar Abrams, Melanie Allen, Luz Marina Alvare, Mulugeta Bayeh, Terra Carter, Heidi Fritschel, Simone Hill-Lee, Andrew Marble, Andrea Pedolsky, David Popham, Nilam Prasai, Ghada Shields, Julia Vivalo, and John Whitehead. We also greatly ap- preciate administrative support from Lynette Aspillera, David Governey, and Catherine Gee.
We thank the following people for help with data methods and data access: Allison Pepper (Flour Fortification Initiative) for data access; Ann Biddlecom (United Nations Population Division) for information on the unmet need for family plan- ning; Anne Peniston, Richard Greene, Elizabeth Jordan-Bell, and Robbin Boyer (US Agency for International Development [USAID]) for data clarifications; Bingxin Yu (IFPRI) for SPEED data; Carlo Cafiero and Piero Conforti (Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations [FAO]) for access to the overaquisition data; Caryn Bredenkamp and Leander Buisman (World Bank) for stunting trends by wealth quintile data; Leslie Elder and Andrea Spray (World Bank) for data clarifications; Erin McLean (Government of Canada) for data clarifications; David Clark (UNICEF) for the latest data on the International Code of Marketing of Breast-milk Substitutes; Liliana Carvajal (UNICEF) for information on zinc treatment for diarrhea; Holly Newby, Julia Krasevec, Arachana Dwivedi, and David Clark (UNICEF) for help on data access and data interpretation; Jere Behrman (University of Pennsylvania) for advice on the latest literature on the economic returns to nutrition; John Hoddinott (IFPRI) for new benefit-cost projections; Juan Feng (World Bank) for definitions of poverty indicators; Lisa Smith (TANGO Interna- tional) for advice on models and access to some data on basic and underlying determinants; Manos Antoninis (United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization [UNESCO]) for advice on women’s secondary education indicators; Matthew Greenslade (UK Department for International Development [DFID]) for advice on social protection data; Mercedes de Onis,
Monika Blössner, and Elaine Borghi (World Health Organization [WHO]) for support with data access and guidance on methods; Scaling Up Nutrition (SUN) focal points and in-country partners for conducting the self-assessment exercises on SUN country institutional transformation and the MDF team (Irma Alpenid- ze, Mike Zuyderduyn, and Ingrid Oomes) and SUN Movement Secretariat team (Patrizia Fracassi, Shaoyu Lin, Martin Gallagher, Kwame Akoto-Danso, Pau Blanquer, Delphine Babin-Pelliard, and Fanny Granchamp) for collating and analyzing the data; Rajith Lakshman, Maria Fe Celi Reyna, and Woody Wong Espejo (IDS) for work on the development policy document review; Rolf Luyendijk (UNICEF) for data and advice on water, sanita- tion, and hygiene; and Dolf te Lintelo (IDS), Gretchen Stevens (WHO), Jose Luiz Alvares Moran (Coverage Monitoring Net- work, Action Against Hunger), and Luz Maria De-Regil (Micro- nutrient Initiative) for being part of the report’s Data Access Group.
We also acknowledge support for the development of the panels (beyond authorship) featured in this year’s report from Jennifer Requejo, Lina Mahy and the UN Standing Committee on Nutrition, Pau Blanquer, Patrizia Fracassi, Rachel Nugent, Endang Achadi, Steve Wiggins, Mercedes de Onis, and Clara Picanyol.
For facilitating the tracking of Nutrition for Growth commit- ments, we thank Anna Taylor, Tanya Green, and Rob Hughes (DFID); Delphine Babin Pelliard, Kwame Akoto-Danso, Martin Gallagher, Patrizia Fracassi, Pau Blanquer, and Fanny Gran- champ (SUN Movement Secretariat); Jessica Meeker and Kat Pittore (IDS); Jonathan Tench (SUN Business Network); and Lina Mahy (UN Standing Committee on Nutrition).
The IEG acknowledges the support of Richard Horton and Pamela Das at The Lancet in facilitating the peer review of the report and thanks the four anonymous Lancet reviewers. We thank those who provided further feedback and comments on the draft report: Jennifer Rigg and Rebecca Olson (1,000 Days); Kate Goertzen (ACTION); Juliet Attenborough (Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade); Ellen Piwoz, Shawn Baker, and Neil Watkins (Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation); Sabine Triemer (BMZ–German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation); Jennifer Goosen and Erin McClean (Government of Canada); Jo Lofthouse, Michael Anderson, and Augustin Flory (Children’s Investment Fund Foundation [CIFF]); Joseph Patrick Ngang (Collectif des ONG pour la Sécurité Alimentaire et le Développement Rural); Joanna Francis (Concern Worldwide; Generation Nutrition); John Cordaro (Mars); Pedro Campo- Llopis, Catherine Chazaly, and Patrice Moussy (European Commission); Food and Agriculture Organization of the United
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