Taking Severe Acute Malnutrition Treatment Back to the Community: Practical Experiences from Nutrition Coverage Surveys

The Community Management of Acute Malnutrition (CMAM) treatment model was introduced to respond to the limited coverage of the inpatient model yet until the introduction of quick and low-cost approaches to measuring coverage, its reach was unknown. Once the Coverage Monitoring Network had been created to introduce the routine measurement of direct coverage estimates to implementers, they found that programmes were reaching only a third of cases....