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Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Global Diet Quality Score is Inversely Associated with Nutrient Inadequacy, Low Midupper Arm Circumference, and Anemia in Rural Adults in Ten Sub-Saharan African Countries
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Food Systems
Researchers evaluated the comparative performance of the Global Diet Quality Score (GDQS) against other diet metrics to capture nutrient adequacy and undernutrition. The GDQS performed comparably with the Minimum Dietary Diversity–Women indicator in capturing adequacy outcomes.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Integrating Nutrition and Food Safety in Food Systems Policy and Programming
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Food Systems
Food Safety
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.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Nurturing Care for Every Newborn: Ensuring Every Newborn Survives and Thrives
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Early Childhood Development
BreastfeedingCOVID-19Infant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH)
The thematic brief introduced outlines the five components of nurturing care and presents practical actions to strengthen nurturing environments for newborns, including those who are born early, small, or ill. It is critical to invest in policies, health systems, and community awareness to provide developmentally supportive care. This is a webinar.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Standards for Healthy Eating, Physical Activity, Sedentary Behaviour, and Sleep in Early Childhood Education and Care Settings: A Toolkit
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Early Childhood Development
Adolescent Nutrition
These global standards support early child education and care providers to provide healthy foods and beverages and ensure young children are physically active, avoid excess sedentary time, and get enough sleep in childcare and education settings.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Seen, Counted, Included: Using Data to Shed Light on the Well-Being of Children with Disabilities
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Early Childhood Development
Adolescent NutritionCOVID-19Infant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH)
When absent from official statistics, children and adults with disabilities remain politically and socially invisible, which increases marginalization and potential rights violations.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
COVID-19 and Early Childhood Development in Low- and Middle-Income Countries
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Early Childhood Development
COVID-19Infant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)
Authors describe the nature and scope of existing early childhood development (ECD) evidence related to nurturing care components for young children, including health, nutrition, child protection, opportunities for learning, and responsive caregiving.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Strengthening Psychosocial Stimulation in the Management of Children With Severe Acute Malnutrition: Experience From a Nutrition Rehabilitation Center
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Early Childhood Development
Wasting
Most countries are moving toward home-based management of uncomplicated severe acute malnutrition (SAM) among children. Strengthening the support of sensory and psychosocial stimulation and structured play in facility and community-based care of SAM children will help them to survive and thrive.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Population-Based Approaches for Monitoring the Nurturing Care Environment for Early Childhood Development: A Scoping Review
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Early Childhood Development
Growth Monitoring and Promotion
There are several methodological challenges to building a population-based approach to monitoring nurturing care environments.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
A Family-Centered Intervention to Monitor Children's Development in a Pediatric Outpatient Setting: Design and Feasibility Testing
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Early Childhood Development
Growth Monitoring and Promotion
Integrated developmental monitoring requires continued efforts and engagement on the part of both the health care provider and the families. Findings suggest that developmental monitoring with support for families is acceptable to families and trainees and that the intervention demonstrates operational feasibility.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Tools to Advance Localization: The LEAF and USAID's Locally Led Development Checklist
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Capacity Strengthening
The Local Engagement Assessment Framework (LEAF) is a planning and assessment tool to determine the level of ownership by national and community actors at every level of a project. It helps users determine who should be engaged and how, and provides standardized language about ownership to adapt in different contexts.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
The "Big 5" Topics that LIPs Must Know to Successfully Manage USAID Awards
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Capacity Strengthening
Topics include understanding the USAID Agreement, standard provisions for nongovernmental organizations based outside the United States, cost principles, the 10 percent indirect cost rate, and prime and subaward relationship management. This is a webinar.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Locally Led Monitoring, Evaluation, Research, Learning, and Adapting (MERLA) Solutions
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Capacity Strengthening
Experts discuss their experiences implementing locally led monitoring, evaluation, research, learning, and adapting solutions. This is a webinar.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
USAID Resource Hub
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Capacity Strengthening
The Resource Hub provides insights for new, current, and future local and international partners about how to work with USAID.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
New Tools: Multi-Sectoral Planning and Designing Multi-Stakeholder Platforms
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Capacity Strengthening
The toolkits focus on the design of successful multi-stakeholder platforms to improve intersectoral coordination for nutrition. Stakeholders will learn relevant steps within the country-led process, find guidance on approaches, and identify appropriate and useful resources to support this process.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Global Capacity Needs Assessment Methodology: Integrating Nutrition Objectives Into Agricultural Extension and Advisory Services Programmes and Policies
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Capacity Strengthening
Nutrition Sensitive Agriculture
The methodology examines capacity gaps and opportunities to strengthen individual, organizational, and enabling-environment capacities to integrate nutrition objectives and outcomes into agricultural programs and policies. It also identifies knowledge gaps in training materials on nutrition-sensitive agriculture. It is available in English and French.
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
USAID Advancing Nutrition Nigeria Fact Sheet
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This one-page fact sheet describes USAID Advancing Nutrition's support to the government of Nigeria as it works to strengthen wasting prevention and improve the quality of nutrition services and approaches. The project is also working to generate evidence and test innovative approaches to inform future program design.
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
Partnering for Nutrition-Sensitive Agriculture to Reduce Malnutrition in India Fact Sheet
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Nutrition-Sensitive Agriculture Design Guide Community of Practice
Adolescent NutritionNutrition Sensitive Agriculture
This fact sheet, downloadable in both English and Hindi, describes USAID Advancing Nutrition's work in Assam, India to address malnutrition among socioeconomically disadvantaged families through nutrition-sensitive agriculture and to create mechanisms for the exchange of knowledge and information on nutrition-sensitive agriculture approaches to reducing malnutrition.
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
Utiliser la recherche pour concevoir une stratégie de changement social et comportemental pour une nutrition multisectorielle
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Social and Behavior Change and Gender
Les responsables des programmes de changement social et comportemental (CSC) en matière de nutrition peuvent utiliser cet outil lors de la conception d’un programme ou d’une activité pour transformer les résultats de la recherche en une stratégie de CSC conduisant à des comportements nutritionnels optimaux.
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
Evaluation of Global Experiences in Large-Scale Double-Fortified Salt Programs
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Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning
Anemia
Despite the efficacy of double-fortified salt (DFS) in improving hemoglobin, ferritin, anemia, and iron deficiency anemia, there has been limited experience with its production and distribution at scale within programs. Across the world, program managers, researchers, and salt production companies have jointly attempted to introduce DFS in various settings and circumstances.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Seasonal Variation in Maternal Dietary Diversity is Reduced by Small-Scale Irrigation Practices: A Longitudinal Study
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Food Systems
Maternal Nutrition
In observed areas of rural Ethiopia, where women experienced high seasonal variation in their diets and energy intakes, their dietary diversity was low. This could be partly offset by adopting irrigation practices.