The Integrating Nutrition Promotion and Rural Development (INPARD) project aims to investigate whether a multi-sectoral rural development programme can be utilized to deliver nutrition promotion interventions within rural Sri Lanka and whether this approach is effective in improving nutrition outcomes. Connecting health and development goals is challenging, particularly in the context of a country experiencing rapid changes in socioeconomic status. In the post-conflict era, Sri Lanka has maintained a relatively high level of growth and recently graduated to the economic status of a lower-middle income country. Sri Lanka is currently undergoing demographic, epidemiological and social transition with rapid urbanization and development. The country is now facing the double burden of under-nutrition and over-nutrition with rapidly emerging non-communicable diseases (NCDs). Despite improvements in many health indicators, malnutrition, anaemia and other micronutrient deficiencies prevail; this indicates a need to integrate nutrition in future development policies. This project aims to bring health professionals and rural development practitioners together with a shared aim of integrating nutrition promotion and rural development. The main objective of the project is to investigate whether a multi-sectoral rural development programme can be utilized to deliver nutrition promotion intervention within rural Sri Lanka and whether this is effective in improving nutrition outcomes. It includes identifying the pathways to promote nutrition with multiple stakeholders. It aims to explore the pathways in which