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Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review

GAIN Podcast Series: Fostering a Culture of Food Safety

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Knowledge Management Food Safety
Speakers discuss what it means to foster a culture of food safety and how to build one to reduce the burden of foodborne disease. This is a podcast.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review

Sustainable and Resilient Indigenous Peoples' Food Systems for Improved Nutrition: Digital Toolbox

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Knowledge Management Maternal Nutrition
The toolbox and participatory videos provide guidelines to design, implement, monitor, and supervise projects to improve Indigenous Peoples’ diets and nutrition, particularly by leveraging local food biodiversity. Materials are available in English, French, and Spanish.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review

Strengthening Nutrition Interventions in Antenatal Care Services Improved Consumption of Iron-Folic Acid Supplements and Early Breastfeeding Practices in Burkina Faso

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Social and Behavior Change and Gender BreastfeedingCOVID-19Maternal NutritionMicronutrient Interventions
Strengthening maternal nutrition interventions delivered through government antenatal care services is effective for improving maternal nutrition practices. Continued efforts to strengthen services may be needed for greater behavior change and to address family support, social norms, and other factors that impact maternal diet.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review

Interventions and Policy Approaches to Promote Equity in Breastfeeding

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Social and Behavior Change and Gender Breastfeeding
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.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review

The Effect of Electronic Job Aid Assisted One-To-One Counselling to Support Exclusive Breastfeeding Among 0–5-Month-Old Infants in Rural Bangladesh

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Social and Behavior Change and Gender Breastfeeding
Breastfeeding counseling and practical demonstrations are promising interventions to improve exclusive breastfeeding and are scalable within existing community‐based programs.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review

Process of Developing Models of Maternal Nutrition Interventions Integrated into Antenatal Care Services in Bangladesh, Burkina Faso, Ethiopia and India

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Nutrition and Health Systems BreastfeedingMaternal NutritionMicronutrient InterventionsNutrition Assessment, Counseling, and Support (NACS)
Strategic use of data can contextualize nutrition guidelines, protocols, capacity strengthening, and supervision approaches and improve micronutrient supply chains and record-keeping and strengthen health services.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review

Countries' Experiences Scaling Up National Breastfeeding, Protection, Promotion and Support Programmes: Comparative Case Studies Analysis

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Nutrition and Health Systems Breastfeeding
Implementation science frameworks help identify key drivers for the scale- up of breastfeeding protection, promotion, and support policies and programs.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review

Population-Based Survey Data Use for Improved Nutrition Policies and Programs Webinar

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Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning
Speakers present an e-learning course on nutrition indicators. They share country-specific experiences using population-based survey data for policy, program design, and implementation purposes. This is a webinar.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review

Data for Infant and Young Child Feeding and Minimum Dietary Diversity for Women: Understanding New Guidelines, Evidence, and Survey Tools Webinar

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Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning Infant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)Maternal Nutrition
Presenters share new global guidance on indicators, their experience with developing and using updated guidelines, pilot results from using these indicators, and country-specific adaptations of questions. This is a webinar.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review

Using Height-Adjusted Stunting Prevalence Will Fail Disadvantaged Children Worldwide

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Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning Adolescent NutritionGrowth Monitoring and Promotion
This correspondence is a response to S.V. Subramanian and colleagues’ comment in The Lancet on using stunting to monitor nutrition programs. Adjusting for maternal stature in stunting calculations underestimates the contribution of current deficient conditions to a child's stature and is unethical because it will disincentivize commitments to improve living conditions globally.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review

Diet Assessment Decision Tool

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Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning Infant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)Maternal Nutrition
The tool helps practitioners better understand dietary patterns and nutrient intake, which are critical to designing, monitoring, and evaluating efforts to improve diets. Diet assessments and related interventions should focus on children 6–23 months of age and pregnant women, as evidence shows these groups are vulnerable to malnutrition.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review

Health Outcomes Associated with Micronutrient-Fortified Complementary Foods in Infants and Young Children Aged 6–23 Months: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

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Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning AnemiaComplementary FeedingInfant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)Micronutrient Interventions
Fortified complementary foods are effective in preventing anemia in infants and young children 6–23 months of age in malaria-endemic regions. Researchers should investigate the effects of complementary food fortification globally, including in regions where malaria is not endemic.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review

Mitigating Impacts of Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine on Global Food Security & Nutrition

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Knowledge Management COVID-19Food SecurityResilience
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is contributing to rising food, fuel, and fertilizer prices around the world, which are particularly impactful for communities already experiencing increased poverty, hunger, and malnutrition due to COVID-19, climate change, and protracted conflict.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review

Learning Lab: Generating Demand for Healthy Diets: Practical Lessons from Private Sector Marketing

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Food Systems Private-Sector Engagement
Proven marketing techniques can increase the impact of social and behavior change activities to create demand for healthy diets and foods. This session helps participants identify and apply techniques to generate demand. This is a webinar.
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub

USAID Climate Strategy 2022-2030

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Climate change is a global crisis, but its effects are not equal. As temperatures and sea levels rise, the effects disproportionately impact the poorest and most marginalized communities USAID works to support every day. In response to these global challenges, USAID launched a Climate Strategy that will guide its work through 2030.
Adolescent Nutrition Resource Bank

Partnering with UNFPA to Integrate Iron and Folic Acid into Reproductive Health Services for Women and Adolescent girls in Senegal

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Adolescent NutritionAnemiaMaternal NutritionMicronutrient Interventions
This webpage details the success of the Nutrition Leverage and Influence for Transformation program in integrating nutrition counseling into sexual and reproductive health programs to increase the knowledge and awareness of iron-folic acid supplementation and healthy diet among adolescent girls, women of reproductive age, and healthcare workers in Senegal.
Adolescent Nutrition Resource Bank

Evidence-Based Nutrition Interventions Improved Adolescents’ Knowledge and Behaviors in Indonesia

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Adolescent NutritionAnemia
The objective of this study was to assess the effect of a gender-responsive package of three interventions on nutrition knowledge, attitudes, and diet and physical activity behaviors among adolescents in Indonesia.
Adolescent Nutrition Resource Bank

Lafaek for Adolescent Nutrition

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Adolescent NutritionFood Safety
This special edition of the Lafaek Magazine targets adolescents—to increase their knowledge about nutrition and promote key nutrition practices under their control. Key practices include eating breakfast, choosing healthy snacks, and choosing water as a healthy drink.
Adolescent Nutrition Resource Bank

Case Study on Adolescent Inclusion in the Care Group Approach—The Nigeria Experience

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Adolescent NutritionMaternal Nutrition
This article documents the experiences of adolescent girls in selected towns in Northern Nigeria participating in care groups of 10–15 trained volunteer community-based health educators. Their experiences were captured through focus group discussions and key informant interviews.
Adolescent Nutrition Resource Bank

Empowering Girls Through SMS

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Mental Health
A digital counseling service called SMS BIZ, also known as U-Report, was introduced in Mozambique in October 2015. The goal of the project was to create a safe place for adolescents to ask questions and seek counseling on topics generally counsidered taboo in their communities.