Nutrition – Bihar

Mapping Governance: Nutrition in Bihar

The idea behind Mapping Governance is to use the Accountability Initative’s research and on-ground experience over the years to help practitioners in civil society spaces better understand and navigate the government systems they work with.

Civil-society organisations play a pivotal role in facilitating access of communities to public services like health, nutrition, and education and improving developmental outcomes. Thus, it becomes imperative for them not only to be aware of the local government structures, but more specifically understand how large-scale social sector programmes are administered and financed, and where spaces for them to collaborate with the government exist. 

In this context,  Mapping Governance takes you through the complex administrative machinery that delivers key nutrition interventions in the state of Bihar. 

This entire course is made up of 5 Maps. Each Map tells you the story of a different aspect of governance for the delivery of nutrition programmes. At the end of this bundle of Maps, you will be able to:

• [Theme 1] Identify the key functionaries involved in the delivery of the nutrition programmes in Bihar and what each of their roles and responsibilities are
  
• [Theme 2] Understand the extent to which nutrition services in Bihar have been decentralised to local governments
  
• [Theme 3] Recognise convergence efforts between different departments towards better nutrition outcomes and understand the complexities that such an exercise presents
• [Theme 4] Understand how the nutrition programme in Bihar is financed. This is currently unavailable.
• [Theme 5] Acknowledge the critical role played by civil society and citizen groups towards improving the status of nutrition in MP