West Africa priority interventions for nutrition expenditure estimation

Abstract

The study objective was to identify the interventions to use for estimating nutrition expenditure in health sector.
For this to be achieved a list of 37 interventions from health and non-health sector were elaborated based on lancet series 2008 and on WHO proposed nutrition interventions. The list was then submitted to West Africa countries’ team of nutrition and agriculture resource persons for selection. The interventions were classified
using a percentage of occurrences. The reflection of the selected interventions was analysed in health account. The results showed that from the 37 interventions concerned by the survey, 8 (21.6%) were selected by less than 50% of country teams and 29 interventions (78.4%) were selected by more than 50% of country teams. From the 29 interventions 72.4% of them were from health sector. From the 21 interventions (56.8%) selected by at least 75% of country teams, 71.4% of them were from health sector and 28.6% from non-health sector. In addition 76% of the interventions selected by more than 50% of countries were reflected in health account. From these results it can conclude that there is a proposed health and non-health set of interventions identified by West African countries to be used for estimating nutrition expenditures. These interventions can probably be appreciated in health account to have a reliable trend since at least 76% of them are reflected in