United Nations Children’s Fund, The Global Technical Assistance Mechanism for Nutrition, Global Nutrition Cluster, July 2020
This brief provides recommendations for undertaking a nutrition situation analysis and estimating its magnitude, monitoring impacts of COVID-19, and pursuing alternative data collection strategies. Even once restrictions have been lifted, practitioners should conduct harm-versus-risk analyses to assess the necessity of the data despite health and safety risks. Discussion focuses on remote data collection, how to estimate the number of people in nutritional need, and how to monitor the nutrition situation and programs during COVID-19.