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Food Systems Toolkit
42 Policies and Actions to Orient Food Systems Towards Healthier Diets For All
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Food Systems
This report draws on recent evidence to outline 42 policy actions that policymakers and programmers can enact to support food systems in delivering nutritious, high-quality diets for all. You can use this resource to get ideas for where to intervene throughout the food system; including action oriented toward production, supply chains, food environments and consumers. The report includes the…
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
Strengthening Nutrition Activities through Gender Integration
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Social and Behavior Change and Gender
Gender
A brief informed by gender analyses considers how gender differences may affect nutrition services and programming. A key aspect of the social and behavior change work of USAID Advancing Nutrition includes unpacking and responding to the social and gender norms that influence nutrition.
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
Monitoring Social and Behavior Change for Multi-Sectoral Nutrition
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Social and Behavior Change and Gender
High-quality social and behavior change (SBC) design requires multiple steps, beginning with prioritizing behaviors.
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
Using Research to Design a Social and Behavior Change Strategy for Multi-Sectoral Nutrition
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Social and Behavior Change and Gender
Behavior Change for Nutrition
High-quality social and behavior change (SBC) design requires multiple steps, beginning with prioritizing behaviors. After prioritizing behaviors and conducting a desk review and formative research (if necessary), nutrition SBC programmers can use this tool to organize and distill the findings into an evidence-based SBC strategy that leads to optimal nutrition behaviors.
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
Prioritizing Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Behaviors
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Improving Women and Children’s Diets in Emergency ContextsSocial and Behavior Change and Gender
This tool helps nutrition program planners and implementers achieve effective social and behavior change by sharpening their focus on fewer behaviors. Tables and instructions guide users through the four steps needed to prioritize behaviors.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
A Snapshot of Food-Based Dietary Guidelines Implementation in Selected Countries
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Food Systems
While most countries had an official body responsible for implementation, budget allocations, strategies, and plans for implementation, monitoring and evaluation activities were less common. A multi-sectoral food systems approach will facilitate policy alignment to promote healthy eating. This article is behind a paywall.
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
Technical Brief on Costing Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Activities
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Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning
This brief summarizes guidance for planning, tracking, and assessing costs of multi-sectoral nutrition activities. It highlights resources USAID Missions and implementing partners may find useful for conceptualizing costing and presents resources providing detailed guidance on key phases.
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
Définir les compétences en matière de changement social et comportemental pour une nutrition multisectorielle
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Social and Behavior Change and Gender
Cette liste de 52 compétences du CSC guide les managers et les praticiens du CSC pour définir les compétences les plus pertinentes et identifier les lacunes dans les compétences de leurs équipes. Ces compétences décrivent les connaissances, les attitudes et les aptitudes dont le personnel doit faire preuve pour concevoir, mettre en œuvre et évaluer les programmes de CSC.
Monitoring and Evaluation Online Course Repository
Evaluating Public Health Programs at Scale
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Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning
This course provides an introduction to evaluating public health programs at scale. This course focuses on evaluating public health programs and policies in low- and middle-income countries, however, core skills of designing and carrying out an evaluation are applicable to any public health programs and policies.
Monitoring and Evaluation Online Course Repository
Measuring and Modeling Impact in Evaluations
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Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning
This course provides a better understanding of different measures of impact that could be used in the evaluation of a program in the areas of maternal and child health and nutrition.
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
Locally Led Development: Partnering for Improved Nutrition Brief
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Food SafetyFood SecurityNutrition Sensitive Agriculture
USAID Advancing Nutrition conducted a learning activity with a USAID- funded project in India: Scaling Innovative, Nutrition-Sensitive Fisheries Technologies and Integrated Approaches through Partnerships in Odisha, India. We aimed to capture insights from the project’s experiences partnering to improve food security and nutrition outcomes in Odisha State.
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
Community Health Worker Competency List for Nutrition Social and Behavior Change
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Capacity StrengtheningIdentification and Use of Nutrition CompetenciesNutrition in Humanitarian ContextsSocial and Behavior Change and Gender
Program DesignResilience and Food Security Activity (RFSA)
This resource identifies 38 competencies that are important for community health workers (CHWs) to demonstrate in order to carry out high-quality social and behavior change (SBC) activities for improved nutrition. Nutrition project managers and Ministries of Health can use this list as a starting point for assessing, developing, and evaluating CHW SBC skills.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Human Resources for Care of Small and Sick Newborns: The Role of Midwives and Nurses in Protecting, Promoting, and Supporting Breastfeeding
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Knowledge Management
Midwives, nurses and physicians play a critical role in protecting, promoting, and supporting breastfeeding in health facilities. Part of a series coordinated with the Network for Improving Quality of Care for Maternal, Newborn and Child Health and NEST360, this webinar highlights the experiences of practitioners in Nepal and Rwanda.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Getting Food Systems Right from the Start: How They are Failing Young Children and What We Can Do About It?
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Social and Behavior Change and Gender
BreastfeedingInfant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)
Infant and young child feeding practices are normally seen as individual behavior health practices to be protected by health systems interventions. However, globalization of the baby food industry, and the shift of labor and production out of the home, has shaped feeding decisions.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Stronger With Breastmilk Only Initiative: Catalog of Resources
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Social and Behavior Change and Gender
Breastfeeding
The catalog provides strategic guidance and tools to design, implement, and monitor a “Stronger with Breastmilk Only” initiative and stresses that initiatives, regional advocacy, and communication products consider country context. It includes a guide for developing an evidence-driven social and behavioral change strategy. It is available in English and French.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
The Quality of Maternal Nutrition and Infant Feeding Counselling during Antenatal Care in South Asia
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Social and Behavior Change and Gender
BreastfeedingInfant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)Maternal Nutrition
There are evidence gaps about the quality of maternal nutrition and infant feeding counseling during antenatal care and the effectiveness of approaches to improve quality. Research suggests that unequal access to services, limited capacity-strengthening opportunities for frontline workers, and the short duration and frequency of counseling contracts constrain quality.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Maternal and Child Factors Associated with Timely Initiation of Breastfeeding in Sub-Saharan Africa
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Nutrition in Humanitarian Contexts
Breastfeeding
Timely initiation of breastfeeding was lower among married women, working women, women who watched television, women who delivered through caesarean section, and those with multiple births than among women who do not meet those criteria. Policies, behavioral change communication programs, and supportive care are critical to close gaps.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Breastfeeding Protection, Promotion, and Support in Humanitarian Emergencies: A Systematic Review of Literature
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Nutrition in Humanitarian Contexts
BreastfeedingInfant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)
While Infant and Young Children Feeding in Emergency guidelines outline interventions to protect, promote, and support breastfeeding, these recommendations are rarely applied. Research evaluating the influence of interventions aimed at improving breastfeeding in emergency settings is important to encourage and implement optimal breastfeeding practices. This article is behind a paywall.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Mapping Inequalities in Exclusive Breastfeeding in Low- and Middle-Income Countries, 2000–2018
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Nutrition and Health Systems
Breastfeeding
Generating exclusive breastfeeding (EBF) prevalence estimates and assessing progress are critical to identify necessary policy and intervention efforts.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Enablers and Barriers of Exclusive Breastfeeding among Employed Women in Low and Lower Middle-Income Countries
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Nutrition and Health Systems
Breastfeeding
To increase exclusive breastfeeding (EBF) among employed women, employers should offer flexible hours, at least six months maternity leave, and breastfeeding facilities. Identifying modifiable barriers and facilitators may contribute to successful EBF among employed women, thereby reducing mortality and morbidity. This article is behind a paywall.