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  Abbreviations: DHS, Demographic and Health Surveys; GAVI, Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunisation; ICD, International Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems; IHP+, International Health Partnership; M&E, monitoring and evaluation; MDG, Millennium Development Goal; MICS, Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey; NHA, National Health Accounts; SDMX, Standard Data and Metadata eXchange; UNAIDS, Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS; UNFPA, United Nations Population Fund; UNICEF, United Nations Children's Fund; WHO, World Health Organization Margaret Chan is Director-General of the World Health Organization. A commonly used figure, by, for instance, the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, is that 5% to 10% of program funds should be invested in data collection, monitoring, evaluation, and operational research; * Improving the efficiency of health information investments by closer collaboration between partners in support of one strong country M&E plan that covers all major disease and health programs and all data sources.\\n Increase Data Access and Use Better access to data and statistics in the public domain could generate important benefits at country and global levels by fostering collaboration and innovation in statistical and analytic methods, both for new data collection and for better use of existing data.

To many observers, the farm bill that narrowly passed the US House of Representatives this July demonstrated the tremendous challenges involved in generating a bipartisan consensus in the 113th Congress. Important differences in the House and Senate bills -- especially in the level of taxpayer-funded commodity and crop insurance subsidies -- remain to be resolved, potentially in a September conference. Two-thirds of US adults and one-third of US children are overweight or obese.1,2 Obesity-related diseases, such as diabetes and hypertension, not only are chronic, debilitating, and often lethal, but they also account for a large share of overall US health care costs, which in turn have emerged as a main driver of the nation's long-term deficit and debt. Changes to US food and farm policy alone cannot solve America's obesity crisis. But the scale and long-term implications of that crisis also mean that the nation cannot afford to forgo any opportunity to address it.

Recognising the imperative to avoid duplication, we intend to build on our comparative advantages as an agency, including our strong field presence at national and sub-national level for policy and operational support, our access to government and civil society leaders for advocacy and leveraging, our ability to procure and distribute child survival commodities on a dramatic scale, and our strategic role through Multiple Indicator Cluster Surveys in monitoring results and making mid-course corrections.

Veneman, Secretary of the USDA, discusses the Farm Security and Rural Investment Act of 2002. The conservation title in the act represents the single-most significant commitment to conservation on private lands in US history.

Abbreviations: DHS, Demographic and Health Surveys; GAVI, Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunisation; ICD, International Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems; IHP+, International Health Partnership; M&E, monitoring and evaluation; MDG, Millennium Development Goal; MICS, Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey; NHA, National Health Accounts; SDMX, Standard Data and Metadata eXchange; UNAIDS, Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS; UNFPA, United Nations Population Fund; UNICEF, United Nations Children's Fund; WHO, World Health Organization Margaret Chan is Director-General of the World Health Organization. A commonly used figure, by, for instance, the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, is that 5% to 10% of program funds should be invested in data collection, monitoring, evaluation, and operational research; * Improving the efficiency of health information investments by closer collaboration between partners in support of one strong country M&E plan that covers all major disease and health programs and all data sources. Increase Data Access and Use Better access to data and statistics in the public domain could generate important benefits at country and global levels by fostering collaboration and innovation in statistical and analytic methods, both for new data collection and for better use of existing data.