This UN Report summarizes progress towards the Millennium Development Goals between 2000 and 2008, for the world as a whole and for various country groupings. It also considers factors that may affect future progress towards achieving the goals by 2015
This document presents examples and case studies from 21 countries. They demonstrate the benefit of cross-sectoral programming to support early childhood development, some building on early child care or education programme
Contents: Overview 1. Why invest in nutrition? 2. How serious is malnutrition and why does it happen? 3. Routes to better nutrition 4. Getting to scale 5. Accelerating progress in nutrition: next steps