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Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Nutrition International Learning Resources
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BreastfeedingCOVID-19Infant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)Maternal NutritionMicronutrient InterventionsNutrition Assessment, Counseling, and Support (NACS)
An online repository for research and knowledge products published by Nutrition International, such as scientific articles, guidelines, fact sheets, policy briefs, and online tools.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Knowledge Management for Handling Nutritional Information
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This short, self-paced knowledge management course, recommended for UNICEF staff, government, civil society, and private sector partners, covers monitoring, evaluation, data management, and ethical considerations for handling nutritional information. There is no paywall but users must register to view this resource.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Expert Panel: 3ie's New Food System Evidence Gap Map Offers a Roadmap of the Field
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Nutrition Assessment, Counseling, and Support (NACS)
The interactive, visual Evidence Gap Map on food systems interventions addresses the broad scope of factors that impact efforts to improve nutrition and point to gaps in research and evaluations.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
42 Policies and Actions to Orient Food Systems towards Healthier Diets for All
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Nutrition Assessment, Counseling, and Support (NACS)
Many policies and actions have the potential to increase the availability, affordability, and acceptability of high-quality, safe, nutritious foods as well as a shift away from nutrient-poor foods. Authors call for assessing synergies and trade-offs between these actions and environmental sustainability and livelihoods.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
The Processed Food Revolution in African Food Systems and the Double Burden of Malnutrition
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Nutrition Assessment, Counseling, and Support (NACS)
Consumption of processed food and food prepared away from home is increasing and while this trend improves access to healthy processed food and is a significant source of jobs for women, it is also linked to rising obesity rates. Policy development should focus on healthy weaning foods to address stunting, taxes on sugar-sweetened beverages, and nutrition labeling.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Seasonality of Diet Costs Reveals Food System Performance in East Africa
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Food Security
The costs of maintaining diets that meet nutrient requirements fluctuate seasonally and point to the need for more targeted investments to improve the year-round delivery of nutrients.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Informal Food Environment is Associated with Household Vegetable Purchase Patterns and Dietary Intake in the DECIDE Study: Empirical Evidence from Food Vendor Mapping in Peri-Urban Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
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HIV
A greater density of vegetable or informal vendors within 500 meters of a household is associated with a higher likelihood of vegetable purchases and lower energy intake. The role of informal and semi-formal food vendors in supporting consumption of nutritious diets should not be discounted.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Nurturing Care for Children with Developmental Delays and Disabilities
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COVID-19Infant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)
This webinar discusses challenges in serving children who have developmental delays and disabilities; presents emerging research; and highlights early identification, capacity building, public awareness, and psychosocial rehabilitation projects. This is a webinar.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Harnessing Global Data for Young Children
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COVID-19Infant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)
Researchers, implementers, and civil society actors discuss challenges in measuring participation in pre-primary education, how to use data to advance human rights law for young children, the economic costs of pre-school closures due to COVID-19, and the need for better global data across the period of child development. This is a webinar.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Impact of Nutrient Supplementation on Maternal Nutrition and Child Growth and Development in Sub‐Saharan Africa: The Case of Small‐Quantity Lipid‐Based Nutrient Supplements
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Micronutrient InterventionsMaternal Nutrition
Small‐quantity lipid‐based nutrient supplements, given alone or as part of an intervention package, improved infant and child growth in most, but not all, clinical trials reviewed. Supplementation may have greater impact if programs also address underlying factors that contribute to growth faltering.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Group-Based Parenting Interventions to Promote Child Development in Rural Kenya: A Multi-Arm, Cluster-Randomised Community Effectiveness Trial
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Infant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)
An integrated child development intervention delivered to mother-child groups by trained community health workers improves cognitive, receptive language, and socioemotional development.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
A Complementary Feeding and Play Intervention Improves the Home Environment and Mental Development among Toddlers in Rural India
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Infant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)
A responsive complementary feeding and play intervention delivered through home visits benefits children's mental development and the caregiving environment. Mothers with a high school education can deliver behavior change communication if trained and supervised.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
The Opportunities and Risks of Digital Technologies in Nutrition Behaviour Change and Capacity Building (Nutrition in a Digital World, Episode 2)
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COVID-19Nutrition Assessment, Counseling, and Support (NACS)
Presenters discuss using mobile phone technology to improve nutrition knowledge and behaviors, delivering e-learning training to frontline nutrition workers, and combating social media misinformation. This is a webinar.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Adapting NTEAM’s Technical Assistance for Nutrition Project in Bangladesh to Support the National Response to the Nutrition Challenges Posed by COVID-19
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COVID-19Emergency NutritionFood SecurityMaternal NutritionNutrition Assessment, Counseling, and Support (NACS)
Nutrition International staff describe efforts to support the Government of Bangladesh in its COVID-19 response planning and implementation and discuss revising guidelines for food basket provision and forecasting the impacts of COVID-19 on malnutrition in detail. The director general of the Bangladesh National Nutrition Council discusses nine prioritized mitigation measures.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Capacity Development with Local Partners: An Organizational Development Process to Support USAID’s Journey to Self-Reliance
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A cycle-based framework for engaging local partners and systems contributes to sustainable organizational capacity development. The report provides guidance on integrating capacity development into project design as well as examples of good practices, challenges, and tools for every stage in the cycle.
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USAID Advancing Nutrition Adolescent Nutrition Resource Bank Launch: Resources to Inspire Action Webinar
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Nutrition and Health SystemsAdolescent Nutrition
Adolescence is a critical time in the life cycle, presenting what is sometimes called a "second window of opportunity" in an individual’s growth and development. USAID Advancing Nutrition believes that the international development community must give greater attention to the nutritional status and practices of this age group.
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
Determinants of Women’s Dietary Diversity and Consumption of Micronutrient-Rich Foods in Winter in the Kyrgyz Republic
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Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning
Maternal Nutrition
Encouraging do-able actions to increase food access and increasing knowledge of good nutrition practices improved women’s diets in the Kyrgyz Republic. Learn more about USAID Advancing Nutrition at the 5th Micronutrient Forum Global Conference.
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
Lessons in Collaboration from DRC to Address Acute Malnutrition Programming in Complex Settings
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Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning
In complex contexts like the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), delivering a holistic continuum of care for nutrition is both critical and difficult to achieve.
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
Use of Household Consumption and Expenditure Survey Data to Predict Quality of the Diet and Potential Strategies to Fill Micronutrient Gaps
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Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning
Household consumption and expenditure survey data has a high potential to—
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
Opportunities to Improve Micronutrient Intake through Food Processing in USAID’s Feed the Future Program
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Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning
Food processing has the potential to improve micronutrient availability, bioavailability, and density. USAID’s Feed the Future projects can increase year-round access to and use of micronutrient-rich foods, in part through food processing.