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Advocacy and policy
Examining three fiscal years of state budgets, the paper finds that direct nutrition intervention (DNI) budgets remain <2% of total state budgets and, despite absolute increases, declined as a share of total budgets in three of four states between FY 2014–15 and FY 2016–17. Large resource gaps exist against program norms and costed needs (e.g., ~66–75% for several micronutrient and diarrhoea-control DNIs), indicating urgent need to prioritise and adequately finance DNIs, especially health-related ones, to meet coverage goals.