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Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review

Measuring and Assessing Capacity: A Landscape Review

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Capacity Strengthening
This study presents a methodology to generate indicators that help measure the impact of capacity strengthening efforts on performance and resilience.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review

Approaches to Partnership Measurement: A Landscape Review

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Capacity Strengthening Adolescent NutritionInfant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)Maternal Nutrition
While calls for partnership measurement are increasing, no standard approaches or indicators exist. This review recommends developing context-specific measurement approaches. To overcome identified challenges, use multiple indicators and mixed-methods approaches to capture complexity, outcome diversity, and the contributions of partnerships to outcomes.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review

The Relationship between Wasting and Stunting in Young Children: A Systematic Review

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Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning WastingChild Nutrition
Concurrently wasted and stunted children had a higher risk of death and should be considered a high-risk group when targeting treatment. Using weight-for-age Z score and mid-upper arm circumference may be the most effective way to identify children at highest risk of mortality.
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub

Enabling Better Complementary Feeding: Guidance and Workbook

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Improving Women and Children’s Diets in Emergency ContextsSocial and Behavior Change and Gender Complementary FeedingEarly Childhood DevelopmentInfant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)
Social and behavior change (SBC) is necessary to improve all components of feeding young children: adequate food, adequate services, and adequate feeding practices. This workbook highlights challenges and examples specific to quality SBC for improving complementary feeding.
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub

Lipid-Based Nutrient Supplements: Evidence and Program Guidance

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Nutrition in Humanitarian ContextsOptimizing Food Assistance Modalities Complementary FeedingEmergency NutritionFood SecurityInfant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)Micronutrient InterventionsProgram Design
This brief provides information on how to design small- and medium-quantity lipid-based nutrient supplement (LNS-SQ and LNS-MQ) programs that promote improved nutritional status of women and young children in resource-limited settings.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review

Exemplars Data Explorer

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Knowledge Management BreastfeedingHIVInfant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)Micronutrient InterventionsWater, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH)
Users can create and share custom visualizations to interpret data related to stunting and wasting, exclusive breastfeeding, micronutrient supplementation, and other health topics.
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub

Social and Behavior Change Competency Assessment: Tool for Resilience Food Security Activities

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Capacity StrengtheningIdentification and Use of Nutrition CompetenciesNutrition in Humanitarian ContextsSocial and Behavior Change and Gender Behavior Change for NutritionProgram DesignResilience and Food Security Activity (RFSA)
Competencies are critical to job performance and successful social and behavior change (SBC) nutrition interventions. The Social and Behavior Change Competency Assessment tool guides implementing partners of Resilience and Food Security Activities through a process of identifying existing SBC competencies of core staff and building a plan to strengthen and develop further skills.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review

Risks of BMS Products, Baby Feeding Cues, and Newborns’ Nine Instinctive Stages

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Knowledge Management Breastfeeding
Materials focus on the risk of bottles, pacifiers, and formula to breastfeeding and introduce baby feeding cues and nine instinctive stages to breastfeeding. Infographics are available in Burmese, English, and Vietnamese while videos are available in English and Vietnamese.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review

Perspectives On Localization

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Capacity Strengthening
Efforts to increase localization can increase local inclusion and capacity. Challenges include trade-offs among potentially competing objectives, the importance of local voice and institutions, and how to mitigate risks while building pathways for involvement.
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub

Nurturing Care to Improve Early Childhood Development: Kyrgyz Republic Country Profile

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Early Childhood Development Early Childhood Development
To date, there has been limited integration of responsive care and early learning in health and nutrition services. The Nurturing Care Framework provides guidance to help children and families thrive through care for the individual child within a broader enabling environment of capable caregivers, empowered communities, supportive services, and enabling policies (WHO 2018).
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub

Nurturing Care to Improve Early Childhood Development: Cambodia Country Profile

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Early Childhood Development Early Childhood Development
To date, there has been limited integration of responsive care and early learning in health and nutrition services. The Nurturing Care Framework provides guidance to help children and families thrive through care for the individual child within a broader enabling environment of capable caregivers, empowered communities, supportive services, and enabling policies (WHO 2018).
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub

Nurturing Care to Improve Early Childhood Development: Ethiopia Country Profile

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Early Childhood Development Early Childhood Development
To date, there has been limited integration of responsive care and early learning in health and nutrition services. The Nurturing Care Framework provides guidance to help children and families thrive through care for the individual child within a broader enabling environment of capable caregivers, empowered communities, supportive services, and enabling policies (WHO 2018).
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub

Nurturing Care to Improve Early Childhood Development: Bangladesh Country Profile

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Early Childhood Development Early Childhood Development
To date, there has been limited integration of responsive care and early learning in health and nutrition services. The Nurturing Care Framework provides guidance to help children and families thrive through care for the individual child within a broader enabling environment of capable caregivers, empowered communities, supportive services, and enabling policies (WHO 2018).
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub

Growth Monitoring and Promotion in Northern Ghana: A Case Study Narrative

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Nutrition and Health Systems Growth Monitoring and Promotion
Routine growth monitoring and promotion (GMP) of infants and young children provides frequent contacts with caregivers and can serve as an entry point for other essential nutrition and child health and development services.
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Evaluation Planning Tool for USAID Nutrition Programs

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Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning
This guide presents considerations for nutrition program evaluations, including a decision tree and description of options for different types of evaluations, differentiating among them by methodology, questions that can be answered, and resource considerations to aid decision making. Common considerations for five key evaluation components are described.
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The Power of Local Partnerships to Scale Nutrition Programs in India

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Food SystemsMonitoring, Evaluation, and Learning Nutrition Sensitive Agriculture
This blog by USAID Advancing Nutrition and WorldFish describes the success of a USAID-funded nutrition-sensitive aquaculture project implemented by WorldFish, USAID Advancing Nutrition reviewed documents from the project and interviewed WorldFish, USAID, and local partners in Odisha, India to better understand the project’s challenges, successes, and lessons learned.
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Stories from the Forefront: Interviews with Social and Behavior Change Communications Media Professionals

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Social and Behavior Change and Gender Private-Sector Engagement
This guide, developed for USAID's Eat Safe Project, presents behind-the-scenes stories from top practitioners in the field of media-based Social and Behavior Change Communication (SBCC) worldwide; including executive directors, country directors, producers, and researchers.
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub

RFS Food Systems Conceptual Framework

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Food Systems Food Security
USAID's Bureau for Resilience and Food Security (RFS) Food Systems Conceptual Framework articulates the agency's contribution to strengthening food systems and provides high-level operational guidance to RFS staff globally, in line with the overall strategy to build more resilient communities and sustainably reduce hunger, malnutrition and poverty.
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub

WASH and its Links to Nutrition

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Nutrition and Health SystemsNutrition in Humanitarian Contexts Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH)
This Water and Development Technical Brief summarizes the current state of the evidence of the links between WASH and nutrition. It provides guidance about approaches to WASH that are likely to have greater impact on nutrition outcomes and discusses recommendations for USAID WASH programming.
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub

Strengthening Maternal Nutrition in Health Programs: A Guide for Practitioners

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Nutrition and Health Systems Maternal Nutrition
Optimal maternal nutrition during the first 1,000 days is important to improve nutritional status and health outcomes for women and their infants.