Nutrition
Screen, counsel, and treat malnutrition, from infant and young child feeding to community-based management of acute malnutrition, at community scale.
The Challenge
Nutrition programs work where needs shift fast and resources are stretched thin.
Consistent measurement in the field
Weight and height must be taken the same way every time, by every worker.
Following up with defaulters
Children can fall out of treatment between visits.
Tracking therapeutic food stocks
Stockouts at the last mile interrupt treatment.
Enroll every child into one family record
- Register the family first, then add each member against it
- Capture date of birth, gender, and the link to mother and father
- Every child comes out with a nutrition ID that follows them
Plot every child against the growth curve
- Weight-for-age and height-for-age plot straight onto the color-banded reference curve
- Step-by-step measuring instructions appear before weight and height are entered
- The growth summary shows the change since the last visit, not just today's number
Record what each child actually received
- Mark attendance child by child, not as a headcount
- Log the food served and the supplements distributed in the same form
- Photograph the session so the delivery is evidenced, offline
Example Dashboard Integration
See who has been measured and who has been missed
- See at a glance how many children still have no weight-for-age reading
- Break status down by gender and age band to find the gaps
- Feed national surveillance and DHIS2 automatically
Nutrition programs built on CommCare
From India’s national Anganwadi network to emergency community-based management of acute malnutrition in humanitarian response, here’s what programs have shipped on the platform.
India ICDS: National nutrition surveillance across 600,000+ Anganwadi workers
The Indian government’s Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS) program deployed CommCare as the foundation of its Common Application Software (CAS), a national digital platform for Anganwadi workers running growth monitoring, supplementary nutrition, and pre-school education services across India. At full scale, more than 600,000 Anganwadi workers used CAS and over 100 million households had been registered, enabling real-time nutrition surveillance from the household to the national level.
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CommCare nutrition projects from around the world
A roundup of CommCare nutrition programs across Africa, Asia, and South America, spanning growth monitoring, infant and young child feeding counseling, and community-based management of acute malnutrition.
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Reducing childhood malnutrition in Madagascar
How Dimagi worked with the Office of National Nutrition and the Ministry of Health to optimize a CommCare application that tracks and reduces childhood stunting.
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Gorongosa: nutrition behavior change by SMS in Mozambique
Near Gorongosa National Park, a CommCare mHealth app pairs GiveDirectly cash transfers with SMS nudges toward better nutrition and food security.
Read moreSurveillance to treatment, across every use case.
Use the power of CommCare to run nutrition programs end to end, across every use case.
One platform, every workflow.
From service delivery and monitoring to research and engagement, the same platform adapts to whatever your nutrition program needs. Pick a use case to see how it tunes.
- No-code workflows for frontline teams
- Offline-first, multi-language, multi-country
- Real-time dashboards and donor-ready reporting