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Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Exploring the Influence of Social Norms on Complementary Feeding: A Scoping Review of Observational, Intervention, and Effectiveness Studies
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Food SecurityInfant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)Maternal NutritionNutrition Assessment, Counseling, and Support (NACS)Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH)
Social norms and cultural beliefs can be influential barriers or facilitators for adopting improved complementary feeding (CF) practices, but guidance to address norms and beliefs is limited.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Adolescent Nutrition: Current Progress and Looking Ahead
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Adolescent Nutrition
Presenters provide an overview of adolescent nutrition status across seven global regions, discuss how adolescents experience nutrition across the world, and present youth-led solutions to improve nutrition in Indonesia.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Volunteer Community Health and Agriculture Workers Help Reduce Childhood Malnutrition in Tajikistan
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Adolescent NutritionMaternal NutritionWater, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH)
Community volunteers specializing in maternal, newborn, and child health, water, sanitation, and hygiene activities, and agriculture are an effective workforce to improve individual knowledge, attitudes, and practices that result in better nutrition and improve the dietary diversity of women and children.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Series on Maternal and Child Undernutrition Progress
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WastingAdolescent NutritionCOVID-19Infant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)Maternal NutritionMicronutrient Interventions
Three new papers build upon findings from the 2008 and 2013 Series. They conclude that despite modest progress, maternal and child undernutrition remains a major global health concern.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Remote Developmental Evaluation: A Guide for Funders and Practitioners
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COVID-19Nutrition Assessment, Counseling, and Support (NACS)
Developmental Evaluation (DE) seeks to improve programs by strengthening innovation and adaptation. The COVID-19 pandemic has forced a shift from embedding evaluators to engaging remotely. This guide captures broadly applicable learnings and methods for successfully implementing remote DEs. This is a webinar.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
From Programs to Policies: Translating Nutrition Indicators
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Nutrition Assessment, Counseling, and Support (NACS)
Programmers often need technical, project-specific data to evaluate the effectiveness of an evaluation, while advocates frequently use more easily explicable data to illustrate trends at the macro level.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
The State of Evidence and Experiences in Double Fortified Salt (Iodized Salt with Iron)
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AnemiaMicronutrient Interventions
Articles focus on iron fortification practices and the implications of adding iron to salt, and whether double fortification salt (DFS) with iron and iodine reduce anemia, iron deficiency anemia, iron and iodine deficiencies, and functional outcomes.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Mobilising Evidence, Data, and Resources to Achieve Global Maternal and Child Undernutrition Targets and the Sustainable Development Goals: An Agenda for Action
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Adolescent NutritionAnemiaBreastfeedingCOVID-19Emergency NutritionInfant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)Maternal NutritionMicronutrient InterventionsNutrition Assessment, Counseling, and Support (NACS)Nutrition Sensitive AgricultureWater, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH)
New evidence from national and state-level success stories in stunting reduction reinforces the need for multisectoral actions to address underlying determinants of undernutrition and identifies key features of enabling political environments. Well-resourced nutrition data and information systems are essential to support this work.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Introduction to the SIMPLE Macro, a Tool to Increase the Accessibility of 24-Hour Dietary Recall Analysis and Modeling
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Micronutrient InterventionsNutrition Assessment, Counseling, and Support (NACS)
Information on long-term dietary intake is often required for nutrition research or program planning, but surveys routinely use short-term assessments such as 24-hour recalls. Methods to reduce the impact of within-person variation in 24-hour recalls typically require extensive training and skill.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
International Values for Haemoglobin Distributions in Healthy Pregnant Women
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AnemiaMicronutrient Interventions
Given the increased risk of maternal and neonatal mortality that anemia poses, this study aims to help inform re-examination of WHO hemoglobin cut-off points for defining anemia in pregnancy.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Assessing Nutrient Gaps and Affordability of Complementary Foods: New Methods and Their Application in Different Settings
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AnemiaNutrition Assessment, Counseling, and Support (NACS)
This series of articles focuses on nutrient gaps and the affordability of nutritious foods during the complementary feeding period in South Asia and Eastern and Southern Africa, as well as the Comprehensive Nutrient Gap Assessment method for identifying the public health significance of nutrient gaps.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
The Lancet Series on Maternal & Child Undernutrition Progress
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Adolescent NutritionMaternal NutritionWater, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH)
Multi-sectoral nutrition leaders discuss how the evidence base for nutrition; health; food systems; social protection; and water, sanitation, and hygiene interventions has evolved since the first Lancet Series on Maternal & Child Undernutrition was published in 2013. They also identify priority actions to regain and accelerate progress within the next decade. This is a webinar.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Why Tackling Malnutrition Matters for Women's Empowerment
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Adolescent NutritionCOVID-19Maternal Nutrition
While gender equality and women’s empowerment are associated with improved child nutrition, early childhood nutrition also contributes to strong and healthy women. Interventions such as supplying pregnant women with prenatal vitamins can make a significant difference to their financial security and economic empowerment.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Small-Scale Farmers Developing Resilience to COVID-19
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COVID-19Food SecurityResilience
Speakers shed light on how small-scale farmers are dealing with COVID-19, risks to food security for mothers and children, the importance of bringing digital services to farmers, and the advantages of poultry farming over other types of livestock farming. This is a podcast.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Opinion: Protecting Nature's Perfect Food System
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Breastfeeding
Alive & Thrive’s Cost of Not Breastfeeding tool demonstrates the importance of breastfeeding to increase economic productivity and reduce healthcare costs.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Micronutrient Forum 5th Global Conference: CONNECTED 2020
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Adolescent NutritionAnemiaBreastfeedingCOVID-19Emergency NutritionFood SafetyInfant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)Maternal NutritionNutrition Assessment, Counseling, and Support (NACS)Nutrition Sensitive AgriculturePrivate-Sector Engagement
Recently made available to the public at no cost, conference research tracks explore Micronutrient Biology and Status Assessment, Efficacy and Safety of Micronutrient Interventions, Program Effectiveness, Designing an Enabling Environment for Micronutrients, and Food Systems. Slideshows and other written materials accompany recorded presentations.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
How Nutrition-Sensitive Agriculture Programs Can Realize both Nutrition and Gender Equality Goals
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Nutrition Sensitive Agriculture
Ensuring gender transformative outcomes of nutrition-sensitive agriculture programs (NSAPs) requires being intentional about empowering women and transforming gender relations as well as recognizing potential trade-offs between women’s different roles and the unintended consequences of NSAP participation.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Global Financing for Nutrition: 45% ≠ 1%
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WastingAdolescent NutritionEconomic GrowthPrivate-Sector Engagement
More than 45 percent of infant and young child deaths are attributable to undernutrition. However, as this article points out, donor funding for nutrition services is less than 1 percent of donor investment in development as a whole. Despite proven solutions to screen and treat children, underfunding hinders large-scale progress with enormous consequences.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
COVID-19 & Nutrition: Crisis and Opportunity
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COVID-19Food Security
As incomes have declined during the pandemic, families cannot afford nutritious foods while producers and sellers struggle to stay afloat. Health systems are overwhelmed, families are reluctant to seek healthcare, and efforts to stop the spread of COVID-19 are decreasing coverage of other life-saving care.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
2021: Make-or-Break Year to Keep Nutrition Promises to Mothers and Children
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WastingAdolescent NutritionBreastfeedingCOVID-19Maternal Nutrition
Fortifying foods with essential vitamins and nutrients, supporting mothers to breastfeed, treating acute malnutrition, and providing nutrient supplements to mothers and children are proven, cost-effective solutions, but this work remains underfunded, limiting the ability to scale interventions.