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 screening in the field
MUAC and weight-for-height must be measured the same way every time.
Following up with defaulters
Children can fall out of treatment between visits.
Tracking therapeutic food stocks
Stockouts at the last mile interrupt treatment.
CommCare for Nutrition Programs
Catch malnutrition early with guided screening
- Capture MUAC, weight-for-height, and bilateral edema in the field
- Auto-classify SAM and MAM from the measurements you enter
- Flag red-zone children for referral the same visit
Counsel caregivers and track behavior change
- Work through an IYCF checklist on breastfeeding and feeding
- Pull up counseling job aids right inside the visit
- Log caregiver commitments and schedule the next follow-up
Watch malnutrition trends across every site
- Track screened children, SAM, and MAM on one dashboard
- Compare prevalence by district and age group
- Feed national surveillance and DHIS2 automatically
Follow every child from community to treatment
- Generate SAM and MAM referrals straight from screening
- Track each child from admission through discharge
- Surface defaulters for follow-up before they deteriorate
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Talk to our teamNutrition 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