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Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Field Exchange Special Issue on Nutrition of School-Age Children and Adolescents
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Nutrition and Health Systems
Adolescent NutritionCOVID-19
Developing international targets and goals and systematically tracking nutrition and mortality data are critical to assess the burden of malnutrition, monitor trends, prioritize interventions, advocate with governments, and assess programming efficacy.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Conducting Formative Research on Adolescent Nutrition: Key Considerations
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Nutrition and Health Systems
Adolescent Nutrition
Involving adolescents in designing programs and efforts to inform policy allows them to make decisions about their own well-being and ensures the applicability of results in communities. This guidance includes a list of participatory nutrition research methods and pretesting resources.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
World Bank Support to Reducing Child Undernutrition: An Independent Evaluation
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Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning
Adolescent NutritionMicronutrient InterventionsWater, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH)
This evaluation assesses the contributions of the World Bank to improving nutrition determinants and outcomes for children.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Best Practices for Conducting a Remote Data Quality Assessment
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Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning
COVID-19Growth Monitoring and Promotion
Using a remote data quality assessment approach facilitates routine monitoring in emergency settings or when travel is not possible. Remote approaches also protect the health and safety of service providers, government staff, data collectors, and supervisors.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
A Global Call to Action for Gender-Inclusive Data Collection and Use
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Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning
Gender
Binary representation of cisgender female and male populations perpetuates marginalization and discrimination of transgender and gender-nonconforming people and limits the ability to serve the needs of all. Authors call for a shift to using multinomial gender-disaggregation, particularly for surveyors, researchers, program implementers, policy makers, and gender rights advocates.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Household-Level Consumption Data can be Redistributed for Individual-Level Optifood Diet Modeling: Analysis from Four Countries
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Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning
BreastfeedingGrowth Monitoring and Promotion
Results suggest that household consumption and expenditure surveys data can be used in Optifood analyses of dietary patterns and micronutrient gaps for 12- to 23-month-old children in place of individual-level 24-hour recalls. Further analyses are required for different age groups and locations.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Health Chat Featuring USAID Chief Nutritionist Shawn Baker
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Knowledge Management
Adolescent NutritionBreastfeedingCOVID-19Emergency NutritionFood SecurityInfant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)Maternal NutritionMicronutrient InterventionsNutrition Sensitive AgriculturePrivate-Sector Engagement
Increased investments to offset the consequences of COVID-19, expand social safety nets, and protect access to nutrition services, nutritious foods, and vitamin and mineral supplementation are critical. USAID’s Shawn Baker discusses the importance of closing financing gaps for private-sector engagement in the nutrition sector, and both stabilizing and reforming food systems for nutrition.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Reducing Child Undernutrition: Lessons from International Development
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Knowledge Management
Adolescent Nutrition
Speakers discuss multi-sectoral interventions, the role of institutional strengthening to address undernutrition at national and subnational levels, how nutrition interventions can better support social norms and behavior change, and how development agencies and partner governments can use these lessons to improve nutrition programming. This is a webinar.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Powering Women—Promising Futures
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Knowledge Management
Adolescent NutritionGenderMaternal NutritionMicronutrient Interventions
The summit focused on women’s rights to health and nutrition and new and transformative thinking, investments, and actions to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals on nutrition and gender equality. This is a webinar. The recording is available in English, French, and Spanish.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Revolutionizing Nutrition Financing
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Knowledge Management
Private-Sector Engagement
Speakers from multiple sectors discuss the latest thinking, research, and experiences on designing and launching mechanisms to diversify nutrition funding. This is a webinar.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
U.S. Government Global Nutrition Coordination Plan 2021–2026
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Knowledge Management
Adolescent NutritionCOVID-19Food SafetyFood SecurityInfant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)Maternal NutritionMicronutrient Interventions
This interagency effort works to strengthen the impact of diverse nutrition investments across the government through better communication and collaboration and by linking research to program implementation.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
USAID Maternal Nutrition: Preventing Malnutrition in Women and Girls
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Knowledge Management
Adolescent NutritionBreastfeedingFood SecurityInfant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)Maternal Nutrition
Women and girls have unique nutritional requirements throughout the life cycle, especially during adolescence, before and during pregnancy, and while breastfeeding. USAID investments seek to protect nutrition throughout the life cycle to ensure that all women and children are well-nourished and can live healthy and productive lives. This is a video.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Nutrition at USAID: A Legacy of Impact and Progress
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Knowledge Management
Adolescent NutritionEconomic GrowthMaternal Nutrition
USAID and its partners work with countries to provide people with skills, tools, and resources to improve their families’ health, diets, and nutrition, especially early in life. This is a video.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Agricultural Extension and Rural Advisory Services: What Have We Learned? What’s Next?
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Knowledge Management
Nutrition Sensitive Agriculture
The “best-fit” framework focuses on extension service characteristics that affect performance, including governance structures and funding, organizational and management capacities and cultures, methods, and community engagement. All of these are affected by the policy environment, agroecological conditions, and farming-system heterogeneity.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Africa Regional Overview of Food Security and Nutrition
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Knowledge Management
COVID-19Food SecurityInfant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)Maternal NutritionMicronutrient Interventions
Increasing numbers of Africans experience hunger and suffer widespread micronutrient deficiencies; overweight and obesity are significant public health concerns as well. A common vision, strong political leadership, and effective cross-sectoral collaboration, are essential to identify and implement sustainable solutions that transform agrifood systems to deliver healthy, affordable diets.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Unleashing the Full Power of Large-Scale Food Fortification: A Renewed Commitment
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Food Systems
Micronutrient Interventions
While large-scale food fortification has a record of nearly eliminating debilitating vitamin and mineral deficiencies, it is underused in ending preventable diseases and death. Speakers discuss new efforts to accelerate progress and catalyze momentum and proof-of-impact through targeted investment and political leadership. This is a webinar.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Food Safety: A Foundation for Nutrition and Growth
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Food Systems
Food Safety
Speakers discuss the multi-sectoral requirements to keep food safe, with a focus on the informal markets where consumers source their diets. They discuss specific causal pathways in health and physiology, consumer behavior, supply chains and markets, and policy and regulation domains through which food safety and nutrition are linked.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Exploring the Use of the Nutrition-Sensitive Agriculture Design Guide
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Food Systems
Food SecurityNutrition Sensitive Agriculture
USAID Advancing Nutrition speakers provide an overview of the Community of Practice and its goals, discuss how it is using the Nutrition-Sensitive Agriculture Design Guide to facilitate workshops targeting agriculture and economic growth activities that have a nutrition objective, and explain how others can join. This is a webinar.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Counting the True Cost: How Understanding the Real Cost of Food Can Improve Nutrition for All
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Food Systems
Food SecurityMicronutrient Interventions
Food systems approaches such as True Cost and Value Accounting provide holistic assessments of the consequences and benefits of different food and nutrition interventions and evidence to improve nutrition strategies and policies. This webinar was a Nutrition for Growth Summit Side Event.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Global Diet Quality Project
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Food Systems
Micronutrient InterventionsNutrition Assessment, Counseling, and Support (NACS)
The Diet Quality Questionnaire captures dietary adequacy and dietary risk factors for noncommunicable diseases and enables monitoring of trends and comparisons across demographics. The Global Diet Quality Project enables the collection of comparable population-level dietary data within and across countries.