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Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
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Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Normative Guidance: WHO Guideline on the Prevention and Management of Wasting and Nutritional Oedema (Acute Malnutrition) in Infants and Children Under 5 Years
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Nutrition and Health Systems
Acute Malnutrition
The guideline focuses on the management of infants under six months of age at risk of poor growth and development as well as infants and children ages 6–59 months with wasting and/or nutritional edema. It includes post-exit interventions after recovery and prevention strategies.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Strengthening Counseling through Improved Tools for Health Workers
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Nutrition and Health Systems
Infant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)Maternal NutritionNutrition Assessment, Counseling, and Support (NACS)
This brief discusses the importance of quality tools to support counseling for nutrition and nurturing care and shares tools that can improve client and provider relationships, counseling behaviors, and counselor workloads.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Strengthening Counseling Capacity Through Supportive Supervision and Mentorship
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Nutrition and Health Systems
Infant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)Maternal NutritionNutrition Assessment, Counseling, and Support (NACS)
This brief highlights the importance of capacity strengthening approaches to the provision of quality counseling. It shares lessons learned from efforts to use supportive supervision and mentoring to address health worker needs and provide high quality nutrition services.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
How A Digital Tool May Help Health Workers Improve Growth Monitoring and Promotion and Reduce Malnutrition
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Nutrition and Health Systems
Growth Monitoring and Promotion
USAID Advancing Nutrition developed this guidance package to support the development of a digital tool for growth monitoring and promotion. The package compiles recommendations for growth monitoring and promotion service delivery and business processes and workflows for delivering and supervising these services.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Lessons Learned in Implementing the Low Birthweight Infant Feeding Exploration Study: A Large, Multi-Site Observational Study
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Nutrition and Health Systems
COVID-19Infant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)
Results of research from India, Tanzania, and Malawi showed that hospital-level guidelines and the provision of care for moderately low birthweight infants varied across and within countries. The study supports evidence-based planning of large-scale interventions. Multi-site partnerships in global health research are critical to avoid duplication and build a stronger evidence base.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Validation of Mobile Artificial Intelligence Technology–Assisted Dietary Assessment Tool Against Weighed Records and 24-Hour Recall in Adolescent Females in Ghana
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Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning
Adolescent Nutrition
The Food Recognition Assistance and Nudging Insights (FRANI) AI–assisted dietary assessment accurately estimated nutrient intakes compared with weighed records. These estimates were at least as accurate as those collected through 24-hour recall. Further improvements in food recognition and portion estimation using FRANI could reduce errors and improve nutrient intake estimations.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Haemoglobin Diagnostic Cut-Offs for Anaemia in Indian Women of Reproductive Age
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Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning
AnemiaMicronutrient Interventions
This research suggests persistently high rates of anemia could be partially related to overdiagnosis due to an inappropriately high hemoglobin diagnostic cut-off.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Effect of Prenatal Micronutrient-Fortified Balanced Energy-Protein Supplementation on Maternal and Newborn Body Composition: A Sub-Study from the MISAME-III Randomized Controlled Efficacy Trial in Rural Burkina Faso
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Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning
Maternal NutritionMicronutrient Interventions
In Burkina Faso, research on maternal and newborn body composition found that micronutrient-fortified balanced energy-protein supplementation during pregnancy can increase maternal and newborn fat-free mass index without a significant effect on fat-mass index.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
A Rapid Landscape Review of Postpartum Anaemia Measurement: Challenges and Opportunities
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Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning
AnemiaMicronutrient Interventions
This researcher demonstrates how critical it is to develop common anemia measures for women in the postpartum period and promote rapid uptake and reporting.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Wasting: A Growing Threat to Child Survival
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Knowledge Management
Acute MalnutritionCOVID-19Micronutrient InterventionsWater, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH)
Resources featured in this interactive web page include a framework to address persistent wasting, small-quantity lipid-based nutrient supplement program implementation, blanket supplementary feeding, treating moderate wasting with local foods, providing training for health workers, and strengthening wasting management and the ready-to-use therapeutic food supply chain, among other topics.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Nutrition Governance and Multi-Sectoral Coordination
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Knowledge Management
Nutrition governance requires political will, coordination across multiple sectors, sustainable and transparent financing, and mechanisms to monitor and influence decision-making and policy implementation. This interactive web page showcases work from seven countries.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Leadership Dialogue on Food Systems for People’s Nutrition and Health
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Knowledge Management
Food Systems
This meeting report summaries a dialogue at the first United Nations Food Systems Stocktaking Moment in Rome.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Global Malnutrition Prevention and Treatment Act of 2021 Implementation Plan
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Knowledge Management
Acute MalnutritionBreastfeedingCOVID-19Emergency Nutrition
The Global Malnutrition Prevention and Treatment Act Implementation Plan presents priority technical areas in nutrition; the approach USAID will take to coordinate and collaborate internally and with priority countries, other federal agencies, and partners; and accountability mechanisms.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Research Findings on Resilience & Social Cohesion in Burkina Faso and Niger
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Food Systems
Food SecurityFood SystemsResilience
Deteriorating security impacts food security through loss of access to agricultural and pastoral production areas; disruption of economic activities or loss of livelihoods; reduced access to labor and agricultural inputs; and the closure or limited functioning of health services, schools, and markets.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Global Evidence for Improving Resilience and Food Security: Findings from the REAPER Agriculture-Led Growth and Nutrition-Sensitive Agriculture Evidence Gap Maps
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Food Systems
Acute MalnutritionFood SecurityFood SystemsNutrition Sensitive Agriculture
Implementing partners from the Resilience and Food Security for Programmatic Approaches project present findings from machine learning, comprehensive evidence reviews on agriculture-led growth and nutrition-sensitive agriculture, and new mapping of resilience and water intermediate outcomes to higher-level development objectives. This is a webinar.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Adapting Health Systems to Protect Children from the Impact of Climate Change Series
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Food Systems
Child NutritionFood SystemsResilience
Speakers discuss UNICEF's report on the impacts of heat waves and possible interventions to protect child health, the Children’s Climate Risk Index, and protecting pregnant women and infants against heat stress.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
The Rapid Rise in Domestic Value Chains of Nutrient-Dense Foods (Fruits, Vegetables, and Animal Products) in Sub-Saharan Africa: Policy Implications
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Food Systems
Food Systems
Consumption of nutrient-dense fruits and vegetables and animal products is substantial and growing; while product supply is also growing quickly, it is not much faster than population growth. In some countries, supply growth is driven without nongovernmental organization or company management or government subsidies.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
The Climate-Nutrition Paradox and Unintended Consequences
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Food Systems
Child NutritionFood SecurityFood SystemsGenderMaternal NutritionResilience
Programs must consider unintended consequences of introducing climate-smart agriculture to ensure that marginalized and underrepresented groups are not left more vulnerable to poor nutrition and food insecurity.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Live and Diet
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Food Systems
Food Systems
The Food4HealthyLife calculator shows how switching from the nutritionally poor Western diet to the “optimal diet,” which includes fish, fruits, and vegetables increased estimated life expectancy by 13 years when started at a young age.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Consumer Demand, Food Safety, and Market Systems
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Food Systems
Food SafetyFood SecurityFood SystemsGender
Willingness-to-pay data improve understanding of consumer preferences and contribute to the evaluation of market opportunities for food safety interventions and policy priorities. When consumer willingness to pay provides insufficient incentives for producers, government-driven policy changes may be required.