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USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
Nutritional Care for Children with Feeding Difficulties and Disabilities: A Scoping Review - Journal Article
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Early Childhood Development
Early Childhood Development
One billion people worldwide have a disability, and 80 percent of them live in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). The prevalence of feeding difficulties globally ranges from 25–45 percent to 33–80 percent in children without and with disabilities, respectively.
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
Changement social et comportemental (CSC) en matière de nutrition: Liste de contrôle de la stratégie
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Social and Behavior Change and Gender
Behavior Change for Nutrition
L’utilisation de processus de haute qualité pour le changement social et comportemental (CSC) est une approche transversale clé pour mettre en place des programmes et services de nutrition efficaces. Les planificateurs de programmes nutritionnels peuvent utiliser cette liste de contrôle pour préparer et définir les grandes lignes d’une nouvelle stratégie de CSC en cours d’élaboration.
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
Review of Methods to Assess Diets, Markets, and Cost of an Adequate Diet
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Food Systems
Food Systems
This report describes the findings from a literature review USAID Advancing Nutriation conducted to identify a methodology to assess diets, markets, and cost of an adequate diet for the USAID Large-Scale Food Fortification (LSFF) Programming Guide (USAID 2022) and broader USAID programming to improve diets.
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
Prioriser les comportements nutritionnels multisectoriels
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Social and Behavior Change and Gender
Behavior Change for Nutrition
La conception d’un CSC de haute qualité nécessite plusieurs étapes, à commencer par la hiérarchisation des comportements, une étape qui garantit une utilisation efficace des ressources et un impact durable. Cet outil vous guide dans le processus de hiérarchisation des comportements, qui nécessite une prise de décision subjective fondée sur des données.
Adolescent Nutrition Resource Bank
Improving Nutrition during Middle Childhood and Adolescence by 2032: A Research Roadmap
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Adolescent NutritionFood SecurityFood SystemsMaternal Nutrition
In 2021, Emergency Nutrition Network conducted a prioritization exercise to help set out a 10-year research agenda to support child and adolescent nutrition (5–19 years of age) in low- and middle-income countries.
Adolescent Nutrition Resource Bank
Undernourished and Overlooked: A Global Nutrition Crisis in Adolescent Girls and Women
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Adolescent NutritionAnemiaMaternal NutritionMicronutrient Interventions
UNICEF examines the current status, trends, and inequities in the nutritional status of adolescent girls and women of reproductive age (15–49 years of age). The report considers the barriers adolescents face in accessing nutritious diets, essential nutrition services, and positive nutrition and care practices.
Adolescent Nutrition Resource Bank
Nudges to Promote Healthy Eating in Schools: Policy Brief
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Adolescent NutritionFood SystemsGrowth Monitoring and Promotion
This policy brief aims to increase awareness of the opportunities for promoting healthy eating in school settings and proposes action points for decision-makers to implement healthier eating in schools through the use of nudge-based interventions.
Adolescent Nutrition Resource Bank
Nutritional Status Among Young Adolescents Attending Primary School in Tanzania: Contributions of Mid-Upper Arm Circumference (MUAC) for Adolescent Assessment
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Acute MalnutritionAdolescent NutritionGrowth Monitoring and Promotion
The authors investigate whether there is a correlation between mid-upper arm circumference (MUAC) and body mass index (BMI). The authors explored using MUAC as a low-resource alternative (or supplement) to BMI in assessing nutrition in adolescent populations. They conclude that using MUAC has the potential to provide simple, low-resource nutrition screening when BMI is not possible.
Adolescent Nutrition Resource Bank
The Innocenti Framework on Food Systems for Children and Adolescents
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Adolescent NutritionFood Systems
The report describes the Innocenti Framework on Food Systems for Children and Adolescents' five drivers and four determinants that shape children and adolescents’ diets. It details each component, how they interact, and how a food systems approach can improve diets.
Adolescent Nutrition Resource Bank
Perspective: Interventions to Improve the Diets of Children and Adolescents
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Adolescent NutritionFood SecurityFood Systems
This article uses the determinants of the Innocenti Framework on Food Systems for Children and Adolescents (food supply chains; food environments; and behaviors of caregivers, children, and adolescents) to describe the significance of a food systems approach to improve child and adolescent diets.
Disability Resource Bank
Essential Actions on Disability-Inclusive Nutrition
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Emergency Nutrition
This checklist provides a package of essential actions required to ensure disability-inclusive nutrition humanitarian action.
Disability Resource Bank
Nutrition Integration for the Children with Special Needs: A Facilitator’s Guide for Food Security, Nutrition, Livelihoods and Disability Inclusion Project Staffs
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BreastfeedingInfant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)Maternal Nutrition
This training supports the integration of disability inclusion into nutrition programming by providing information on the nutritional concerns of children with disabilities.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Global Thrive Act Implementation Guidance
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Early Childhood Development
Early Childhood DevelopmentInfant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH)
The Global Child Thrive Act recognizes that the future health, prosperity, and stability of individuals and societies require promoting and protecting young children’s development, which necessitates coordination and integrated approaches across various sectors, including health; nutrition; child protection; water, sanitation, and hygiene; and education.
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
Nourishing Connections: Job Aid and Tools
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Nutrition and Health SystemsSocial and Behavior Change and Gender
Behavior Change for Nutrition
This booklet provides detailed instructions for community health workers (CHWs) to counsel mothers on child feeding in a compassionate way. It helps them improve feeding practices for children 6 to 24 months through tailored discussions and problem solving.
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More Nutrition Data, Please! Integrating Nutrition Indicators into Health Information System and Facility Assessments Webinar
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Nutrition and Health Systems
Increasing the availability and quality of nutrition data is important to measure progress towards global nutrition goals. There are opportunities to leverage existing data collection platforms, especially within the health system, to collect nutrition data for this purpose.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Sustainability and Scalability of Egg Consumption in Burkina Faso for Infant and Young Child Feeding
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Social and Behavior Change and Gender
Infant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)Nutrition Sensitive Agriculture
Mothers who received the Un Oeuf intervention overcame barriers to feeding their child an egg every day, improved their livelihoods, demonstrated motivation to continue feeding their child eggs, and saw the addition of eggs as sustainable. Research to explore the number of household chickens necessary to continuously feed a child one egg per day is important.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Associations Between Dimensions of Empowerment and Nutritional Status Among Married Adolescent Girls in East Africa: A Structural Equation Modelling Study
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Social and Behavior Change and Gender
Adolescent NutritionGender
This research examines how investments in girls’ economic empowerment and access to information may contribute to their overall empowerment and nutritional status, while greater autonomy may contribute to increased consumption of unhealthy foods.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Association of BCC Module Roll-Out in SHG Meetings with Changes in Complementary Feeding and Dietary Diversity Among Children (6–23 months)? Evidence from JEEViKA in Rural Bihar, India
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Social and Behavior Change and Gender
Complementary FeedingInfant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)
This research article explores how behavior change communication intervention in India increased adequate dietary diversity and knowledge and awareness of complementary feeding.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Adequate Dietary Intake and Consumption of Indigenous Fermented Products Are Associated with Improved Nutrition Status among Children Aged 6–23 Months in Zambia
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Social and Behavior Change and Gender
Food SystemsInfant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)
Researchers found a significant association between height-for-age and weight-for-age z-scores and fermented milk consumption in Zambia. Authors call for greater mapping and promotion of traditionally fermented foods and more research to better understand associated health benefits.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Primary Health Care Integration Landscape Analysis: Literature Review Findings
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Nutrition and Health Systems
Adolescent NutritionInfant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)Maternal Nutrition
This literature review synthesizes information about the current integration of immunization and primary health care services in low- and middle-income countries. Some facilities have also integrated nutrition services into reproductive, maternal, newborn, and child health or immunization services.