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The Internet of Things (IoT) is an emerging field that encompasses a wide range of devices connected to each other, and/or the internet to provide services such as real-time data collection and analytics. PATH is specifically looking into IoT for potentially monitoring cold chain equipment (CCE) inventories via automated data recording of equipment performance. Performance metrics may include vaccine compartment temperature, humidity, power availability, and door opening. A key component of IoT is wireless communications for transferring data between sensors and monitoring systems. This is especially important for health care facilities without access to traditional internet service providers and requires data transfer to another location with an internet connection.This landscape documents wireless data communication technologies and their performance characteristics, such as transmission range, network topology, licensing, and power consumption.Contact Pat Lennon (plennon@path.org) for more informationCopyright © 2019, PATH. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/. All other rights reserved.

Purpose: To supervise child health services, including on monitoring and counseling for child development.Used by health care providers.Approved the Ministry of Health, Mozambique.

These reports were developed as part of a series of interrelated assessments regarding alternative proteins. The development of these reports was led by PATH in collaboration with Duke University, the International Food Policy Research Institute, and The Nature Conservancy through the Bridge Collaborative.

Technical assistance (TA) has long been used as a form of development assistance to support countries, however, its success, approach and purpose vary widely. In 2012, the United Kingdom’s Department for International Development initiated a new programme approach to provide flexible TA for nutrition policy and programming, through the Maximising the Quality of Scaling Up Nutrition project led by PATH. Through this mechanism, for the first time, Scaling Up Nutrition (SUN) countries were able to request TA if they did not have the country capacity, technical expertise or existing internal TA mechanism to support their own nutrition planning efforts. Since 2012, MQSUN and now MQSUN+ have provided demand-driven TA to more than 50 SUN countries in response to both global and country requests. At the start of MQSUN, there was no template or framework for how to successfully deliver such technical assistance. Utilising robust monitoring and evaluation and knowledge management, MQSUN+ has continued to document key learnings and positive practices to inform an adaptive TA process. We have found that contextually-informed, inclusive and adaptive TA can energise progress by supporting countries to develop a country-specific and country-owned framework and roadmap for action. Such TA also boosts country efforts to overcome roadblocks and make progress toward reducing malnutrition. There has been growing interest in understanding how TA delivery models function and the elements that drive its implementation. Although there is no standard approach for providing TA, this brief highlights our applied knowledge to showcase how MQSUN/MQSUN+ TA delivery approaches have contributed to strengthening the nutrition enabling environment in SUN countries.