Table 2 Commissioning and funding of the reviews

Government

HTA program-HCA; the National Institutes of Health for the prevention of childhood disease; Canadian Institutes of Health Research; United States Agency for International Development Office of Foreign Disaster Assistance; Research Council of Norway; Department of Health and Ageing-Australia; USAID; The Department for International Development (UK); UK Department for International Development (DFID) for developing countries; Concern Worldwide; Ministry of Science and Technological Development, Serbia; Food Standards Australia New Zealand; Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation (NORAD)

UN agencies

WHO, World Bank, UNICEF, World Food Program, United Nations System Standing Committee on Nutrition (SCN)

Private foundations

Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, The Richard and Rhoda, Goldman Fund

NGOs

ICDDRB (Bangladesh); The Nutricia Research Foundation; International Initiative for Impact Evaluation; German Technical Co-operation (GTZ), Germany; Aubrey Sheiham Public Health and Primary Care Scholarship-UK; International Nutrition Council

Institutions

The Alberta Heritage; Medical University of Warsaw; The Monsanto Fund; Institute of Child Health, London; Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health-UK; The Copenhagen Trial Unit; Harvard Medical School