Intake Survey Guidance Document: An Overview of the Main Pre-Survey Activities Required for a Quantitative 24-Hour Recall Dietary Survey
Intake: Center for Dietary Assessment, January 2020
- Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning
Reports and Tools
Failing to adequately prepare for dietary data collection can often lead to data that is of insufficient quality or that does not provide enough detail for further processing and analysis. This can be avoided by completing certain tasks prior to conducting 24-hour recall surveys. This guidance document provides an overview of the main pre-survey tasks that are necessary for the preparation of various data collection tools, job aids, and auxiliary databases required for calculating food and nutrient intakes in a low- or middle-income country context.
Integrating Early Detection and Treatment of Child Wasting into Routine Primary Health Care Services
UNICEF, October 2021
- Nutrition and Health Systems
Reports and Tools
Rapidly scaling wasting services and achieving the wasting Sustainable Development Goals target requires integrating wasting treatment into primary health care services. This guide offers a process for governments to identify actions to integrate wasting program goals within routine primary healthcare services and includes resources to help national decision makers develop integration plans.
Integrating Early Detection and Treatment of Child Wasting into Routine Primary Health Care Services: A Resource Guide to Support National Planning
UNICEF and Results for Development, October 2021
- Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning
Reports and Tools
The guide presents a process to identify integration actions to address the early detection and treatment of child wasting within primary health care services. Programmers must consider feasibility, risks, and benefits to guide integration and in what form. For each health system component, the guide presents common constraints and presents a set of integration actions to address them.
Integrating Gender into Nutrition Programs: Program Guide
USAID Advancing Nutrition, September 2022
- Social and Behavior Change and Gender
Reports and Tools
This guide shares resources and examples to design, implement, monitor, and adapt interventions to integrate gender into nutrition programming.
Integrating Nutrition and Food Safety in Food Systems Policy and Programming
Nordhagen, Stella, Elisabetta Lambertini, Caroline Smith DeWaal, et al. Global Food Security, November 2021
- Food Systems
Research Articles
Malnutrition and foodborne disease are interrelated in terms of physiology, human behavior, and policy and have large public health and economic costs. While these two issues are often addressed separately in policy, programs, and research, a more integrated approach to address them within the food system is needed.
Integrating Nutrition Services into Health Care Systems Platforms: Where are We and Where Do We Go from Here
Pérez-Escamilla, Rafael, Cyril Engmann. Maternal & Child Nutrition, February 2019
- Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning
Research Articles
Papers explore barriers and facilitators to integrating maternal and child nutrition into health care services. Addressing financing, health information systems, health workforce, supplies and technology, governance, and service delivery issues are as critical as engaging in robust implementation science research.
Integrating Nutrition-Specific Interventions into a Polio Immunization Platform
Alive & Thrive, December 2022
- Social and Behavior Change and Gender
Reports and Tools
Integrating nutrition into the polio immunization platform is feasible and cost-effective, does not hinder immunization coverage rates, and may improve nutrition behaviors. Successful integration requires capacity strengthening, job aids and other materials, well-timed and targeted social and behavior change messages, engagement of key family influencers, and mobilization of influential community members.
Integrating Social Norms in Nutrition Programs: Ready-to-Use Menu Options for Program Planners
USAID Advancing Nutrition, June 2023
- Social and Behavior Change and Gender
Reports and Tools
The menu provides examples of formative research questions, activity descriptions, and indicators to inform monitoring and evaluation efforts.
Integrating Women and Girls’ Nutrition Services into Health Systems in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: A Systematic Review
Menezes, Rachael, Natasha Lelijveld, Stephanie V. Wrottesley, et al. Nutrients, October 2022
- Nutrition and Health Systems
Research Articles
Increasing service coverage and improving health outcomes for current and future generations of girls and women will require addressing barriers to service integration in the public health system and gaps in nutrition services, especially for non-pregnant girls, women of reproductive age, and postpartum women.
Interim Recommendations for Adjusting Food Distribution Standard Operating Procedures in the Context of the COVID-19 Outbreak
IASC and WFP, March 2020
- Nutrition in Humanitarian Contexts
Reports and Tools
This Interim Guidance is intended for field coordinators, site managers and public health personnel, as well as national and local governments and the wider humanitarian community working in humanitarian situations at food distribution sites, who are involved in the decision making and implementation of multi-sectorial COVID-19 outbreak readiness and response activities – the Guidance is therefore relevant for all Humanitarian Clusters and their partners.
The International Code of Marketing of Breastmilk Substitutes: Frequently Asked Questions on the Roles and Responsibilities of Health Workers
World Health Organization, May 2020
- Nutrition and Health Systems
Reports and Tools
Authors discuss common tactics that companies use to encourage health care workers to over-promote breast milk substitutes and clarify health care workers’ role and responsibilities to protect, promote, and support breastfeeding.
International Dietary Data Expansion (INDDEX) Project Publications and Presentations
Tufts University, 2021
Reports and Tools
The INDDEX Project helps low- and middle-income countries increase acquisition and use of high quality, timely food consumption data to improve agriculture, food security, and nutrition outcomes. This virtual platform provides links to several webinars, journal articles, technical reports, and discussion papers related to the project’s dietary assessment tools.
International Humanitarian Organizations’ Perspectives on Localization Efforts
Frennesson, Lina, Joakim Kembro, Harwin de Vries, et al. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, December 2022
- Capacity Strengthening
Research Articles
This critical research addresses internal barriers to localization and identifies how perceptions of barriers or drivers differ depending on roles and institutional affiliations. The ways that current operational expectations can evolve to support localization, how localization is currently implemented, and how organizations address localization challenges are also assessed.
International Values for Haemoglobin Distributions in Healthy Pregnant Women
Ohuma, Eric O., Melissa F. Young, Reynaldo Martorell, et al. EClinical Medicine, December 2020
Research Articles
Given the increased risk of maternal and neonatal mortality that anemia poses, this study aims to help inform re-examination of WHO hemoglobin cut-off points for defining anemia in pregnancy. The research produced international, gestational age-specific, smoothed centiles for maternal hemoglobin concentration compatible with better pregnancy outcomes as well as with adequate neonatal and early childhood morbidity, growth, and development up to two years of age.
Interventions and Policy Approaches to Promote Equity in Breastfeeding
Vilar-Compte, M., R. Pérez-Escamilla, A. L. Ruano. International Journal for Equity in Health, May 2022
- Social and Behavior Change and Gender
Research Articles
Designing programs based on community needs and wants can increase success in protecting, promoting, and supporting women’s right to breastfeed for as long as recommended or desired. Using implementation science frameworks and theories to address structural inequities will strengthen future studies and interventions.
Interventions to Improve Dietary Intake Behaviors among Children and Adolescents
Tumilowicz, Alison, Gretel H. Pelto, Global Food Security, December 2020
Research Articles
The authors explored cultural-ecological factors affecting behavioral interventions to improve diet quality. The results offer insights about facilitators and barriers to uptake of such interventions and highlight implications for planning and monitoring future interventions.
Interventions to Support the Re-establishment of Breastfeeding and Their Application in Humanitarian Settings: A Systematic Review
Camacho, Nieves Amat, Johan von Schreeb, Francesco Della Corte, et al. Maternal & Child Nutrition, October 2022
- Nutrition in Humanitarian Contexts
Research Articles
Providing intensive skilled support can help mothers re-establish lactation, especially when combined with an infant's young age, short lactation gap, and strong motivation. Feasibility and effectiveness of relactation support are likely impacted during acute emergency phases and among populations with low baseline breastfeeding rates. Experimental studies are important to explore the effectiveness of different approaches.
Intrahousehold Power Inequalities and Cooperation: Unpacking Household Responses to Nutrition-Sensitive Agriculture Interventions in Rural India
Harris-Fry, Helen, Audrey Prost, Emma Beaumont, et al. Maternal & Child Nutrition, March 2023
- Social and Behavior Change and Gender
Research Articles
Higher levels of household cooperation within the family and women's relative power may influence children’s and mothers’ dietary diversity in Odisha and increase the impact of nutrition-sensitive agriculture interventions. Further research should investigate constraints that families face and how interventions can respond to heterogeneity in household dynamics.
Introducing a Suite of Low-Burden Diet Quality Indicators That Reflect Healthy Diet Patterns at Population Level
Herforth, Anna W., Doris Wiesmann, Euridice Martínez-Steele, et al. Current Developments in Nutrition, November 2020
Research Articles
Moderate-to-strong associations between food-group scores and 11 global dietary recommendations exist. Food-group consumption data can track progress of countries and populations toward meeting WHO guidance on healthy diets.
Introduction to Caring for the Caregiver
UNICEF, April 2021
- Early Childhood Development
Reports and Tools
The Caring for the Caregiver course helps frontline workers promote caregivers' mental health and emotional well-being by addressing barriers to resources and encouraging self-care and partner and family engagement.
Introduction to the SIMPLE Macro, a Tool to Increase the Accessibility of 24-Hour Dietary Recall Analysis and Modeling
Luo, Hanqi, Kevin W. Dodd, Charles D. Arnold, et al. The Journal of Nutrition, March 2021
Research Articles
Information on long-term dietary intake is often required for nutrition research or program planning, but surveys routinely use short-term assessments such as 24-hour recalls. Methods to reduce the impact of within-person variation in 24-hour recalls typically require extensive training and skill. Developed to facilitate analysis and modeling of dietary data to inform nutrition research, programs, and policy, the Simulating Intake of Micronutrients for Policy Learning and Engagement (SIMPLE) macro is a dietary software tool to increase the accessibility of 24-hour analysis. The authors explain the theory behind the tool and provide examples of potential applications.
Introduction to USAID's Research Translation Toolkit Series
USAID, January 2023
- Knowledge Management
Events
USAID’s Research Translation Toolkit helps researchers communicate findings effectively to the most relevant audiences. This four-part series discusses how to use the stakeholder analysis tool, the communication products section, and the research-to-action plan. Guest speakers share examples of how they have used the processes and tools in their work. These are webinars.
Investing in Nutrition—A Global Best Investment Case
Copenhagen Consensus Center, February 2023
- Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning
Reports and Tools
Small-quantity lipid-based nutrient supplementation and complementary feeding promotion (CFP) for children 6−23 months of age reduced premature births, low birth weight, and stillbirths. The benefit-cost ratio was lowest for CFP for children in the three lowest socio-economic status quintiles due to the high cost of accomplishing behavior change in these households. Replacing iron and folic acid for pregnant women with multiple micronutrient supplements (MMS) as well as using MMS and calcium supplements together reduced maternal mortality and showed the highest benefit-cost ratio.
Iron, Folic Acid, and Multiple Micronutrient Supplementation Strategies during Pregnancy and Adverse Birth Outcomes in Botswana
Caniglia, Ellen C., Rebecca Zash, Sonja A. Swanson, et al. The Lancet Global Health, June 2022
- Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning
Research Articles
Researchers tested four supplementation strategies and found that women who used multiple micronutrient supplementation had lower risk of preterm and very preterm births and low and very low birthweight when compared with other supplementation protocols.