The 7 year wait for results is a really tough one. Governments don’t love investing in interventions where the benefits will only be reaped by the opposition who wins the next election, and funders don’t like waiting that long. Also a 7 year delay to results makes research tricky as well.
Not a reason not to act, but certainly a complicating factor.
Yep, that’s definitely a concern for governments (same with other policy interventions for nutrition). For funders—to be fair, that’s not much different from direct delivery (e.g. for vaccinations or contraception, we can’t really know the impact until we finish our M&E and see the uptake rates/disease rates change)
Nice one as usual Joel!
The 7 year wait for results is a really tough one. Governments don’t love investing in interventions where the benefits will only be reaped by the opposition who wins the next election, and funders don’t like waiting that long. Also a 7 year delay to results makes research tricky as well.
Not a reason not to act, but certainly a complicating factor.
Hi Nick!
Yep, that’s definitely a concern for governments (same with other policy interventions for nutrition). For funders—to be fair, that’s not much different from direct delivery (e.g. for vaccinations or contraception, we can’t really know the impact until we finish our M&E and see the uptake rates/disease rates change)