Table 2

Data availability across interventions

InterventionData availabilitySourceLatest year availableLevel
Counselling Interventions
Counselling during pregnancyNot available (NA) collectively for India.NA
Counselling for breast feeding (0–6 months)
Counselling for CF and WASH
Food supplement interventions
Food supplements for adolescent girlsUnit costs available for costs of food provision only.
Only aggregates of allocations available in scheme documents.
Some aggregates of expenditure available but not publicly.
APIPs for ICDS, budget for SAG.22 36
Lok Sabha Questions (LSQ) (Parliament questions, posed by members of the parliament, to members of the cabinet)/Right to Information (RTI) queries (Similar to the Freedom of Information Acts in the USA.)
2020–2021 for allocations
2018–2019 for expenditures
State
Food supplements for pregnant women
Food supplements for lactating women
Food supplements for children
Food supplements for malnourished children
Micronutrient and deworming interventions
IFA for adolescent girlsUnit costs and disaggregated allocations available in scheme documents.
Disaggregated expenditures captured but not publicly available.
National Health Mission (ROPs 2020–21).21
NHM Financial Management Report (FMR).
2020–2021 for allocations
2020–2021 (till September) for expenditures (via RTI)
State
Deworming for adolescent girls
IFA for pregnant women
Calcium for pregnant women
Deworming for pregnant women
IFA for lactating women
Calcium for lactating women
Iron supplements for children (6–60 months)
Deworming for children (12–60 months)
Vitamin A supplements for children (6–60 months)
Health interventions
ORS and therapeutic zinc supplements for treatment of diarrhoea (2–60 months)Unit costs and disaggregated allocations available in scheme documents.
Disaggregated expenditures captured but not publicly available.
Costs for SAM treatment from Operational Guidelines on Facility-Based Management of Children with Severe Acute Malnutrition.38
Allocations from
NHM (ROPs 2020–21).21
NHM FMR
2020–2021 for allocations
2020–2021 (till September) for expenditures (via RTI)
State
Treatment of severe acute malnutrition children at nutrition rehabilitation centresState
Maternity benefits
Conditional cash transfer—JSYUnit costs and disaggregated allocations available in scheme documents.
Disaggregated expenditures captured but not publicly available.
NHM (ROPs 2020–21).21
NHM FMR
2020–2021 for allocations
2020–2021 (till September) for expenditures (via RTI)
State
Conditional cash transfer—PMMVYAllocations available at national level, as well as some unit costs.
Expenditures available but not in disaggregated form.
PMMVY Union budget, 2020.39
LSQs/RTIs
2021–2022 for allocations
Expenditure till 2019–2020 available
National for allocations
State for expenditures
  • CF, complementary feeding; ICDS, Integrated Child Development Services; IFA, Iron and Folic Acid; JSY, Janani Suraksha Yojana; ORS, Oral Rehydration Solution; PMMVY, Pradhan Mantri Matru Vandana Yojana; ROP, record of proceeding; RTI, Right to Information; SAG, Scheme for Adolescent Girls; WASH, water, sanitation and hygiene.