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Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Generating Demand for Healthy Diets: A Guide to Social Marketing in Nutrition
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Food Systems
Food SafetyFood Systems
This guide provides practical advice, examples, and resources for planning and executing a successful social marketing campaign to improve nutrition outcomes.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Building Forward Better—An Exploration of Nutrition Practices, Food Choice, and Coping Behaviors Among Kenyan Adolescents During COVID-19: Experiences and Program Implications
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Food Systems
Adolescent NutritionCOVID-19Food Systems
Adolescents in Kenya skipped meals and reduced the amount and variety of foods consumed during the COVID-19 pandemic and reported working in the informal sector and selling personal items to support their families.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Is Infant and Young Child-feeding (IYCF) a Potential Double-Duty Strategy to Prevent the Double Burden of Malnutrition among Children at the Critical Age? Evidence of Association from Urban Slums in Pune, Maharashtra, India
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Nutrition in Humanitarian Contexts
WastingBreastfeedingComplementary FeedingInfant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)
This study finds that boys in India had higher rates of stunting and wasting, and bottle feeding increased the odds of wasting, severe stunting, underweight, and obesity. Bottle feeding increased the odds of wasting and severe stunting, and delaying the introduction of complementary feeding increased the odds of severe stunting. Child minimum dietary standards were rarely achieved.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Global Report on Health Equity for Persons with Disabilities
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Early Childhood DevelopmentKnowledge Management
The report documents evidence of health inequities and country experiences advancing health equity, and provides recommendations to health sector decision-makers for country-level action.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Chronic Iron Deficiency and Cognitive Function in Early Childhood
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Early Childhood Development
Micronutrient Interventions
After receiving oral iron, children with chronic iron deficiency demonstrated improved iron status, but continued to have lower cognitive scores compared with children with initial iron sufficiency. Future research could examine outcomes of a screening strategy for the early detection of iron deficiency using serum ferritin. This article is behind a paywall.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Improving Food Systems in Secondary Cities, What Can Be Accomplished Through Multi-Stakeholder Collaboration?
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Capacity Strengthening
Food Systems
Multi-stakeholder platforms that include researchers, policymakers, farmers, and small-scale processors provide significant support for the functionality and increased sustainability of food systems. The report discusses next steps to improve governance and explores novel mixed-farming methods to encourage more diverse diets.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Guidance for the Use of Standard and Non-Standard Recipes in Quantitative 24-Hour Dietary Recall Surveys: The Simple Ingredient Method
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Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning
Authors recommend a simplified calculation method for mixed dishes that allows for disaggregating recipe data to the ingredient level. Identifying ingredient proportions requires collecting or estimating the quantity of each ingredient used and the amount in the prepared mixed dish. Survey planners must explore the pros and cons of collecting standard or nonstandard recipe data.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Identifying and Interrupting Fecal-Oral Pathways in Young Children
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Knowledge Management
Child NutritionInfant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH)
This guide helps Resilience Food Security Activity implementing partners determine whether they need to conduct research to identify and prioritize fecal-oral pathways for infants and young children. It provides guidance about how to design formative research activities and explores appropriate data collection methods for measuring the effectiveness of interventions.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Local Capacity Strengthening Policy
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Capacity Strengthening
The Local Capacity Strengthening Policy provides a cohesive, global approach to guide USAID decisions about why and how to invest in the capacity of local partners.
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
Generating Demand for Healthy Diets: A Guide to Social Marketing in Nutrition
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Food SystemsConsumer Demand for Healthy Diets
Food Systems
This guide supports nutrition program planners by defining, describing, and explaining the process of developing high-quality programs to market healthy diets. This knowledge enables teams to make informed marketing decisions, create strong marketing campaigns, and diagnose and solve marketing challenges. The guide is grounded in real-world experiences.
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
Mapping and Gap Analysis of Tools for Complementary Feeding in Emergencies
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Nutrition in Humanitarian ContextsImproving Women and Children’s Diets in Emergency Contexts
Complementary FeedingEmergency NutritionFood AssistanceInfant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)Wasting
Recognizing the importance of protecting, maintaining, and potentially improving the diets of children under the age of two, there has been an increased focus on supporting infant and young child feeding in emergency contexts in recent years.
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
Wasting and Stunting Special Section in Field Exchange
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Early Childhood Development
WaSt Special Section of Field Exchange includes the following:
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
Covid 19 Learning Series; Case Study 2: On The Role of Entrepreneurs in Supporting Nutrition Services During the Pandemic
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COVID-19Economic GrowthPrivate-Sector Engagement
Case study 2: Adeck Juice Bar, an all-natural smoothie bar run by a young entrepreneur in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
COVID 19 Learning Series; Case Study 1: Western Stone Enterprise
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COVID-19Economic Growth
COVID 19 Learning Series on the role of entrepreneurs in supporting nutrition services during the pandemic.
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
Women's Nutrition: A Summary Of Evidence, Policy and Practice Including Adolescent and Maternal Life Stages
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Social and Behavior Change and Gender
GenderMaternal Nutrition
Malnutrition disproportionately affects women and girls, with more than 1 billion women globally experiencing at least one form of malnutrition.
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
Bringing New Evidence on Undernutrition and Mortality Risk Into Practice
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Early Childhood Development
Emergency Nutrition
This study aims to test whether weight-for-age (WFA) and MUAC can be effectively utilised in existing programmes to capture these children with single and dual deficits and reach considerably more children at a high risk of death.
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
Complementary Feeding in Emergencies Programming in Nigeria
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Early Childhood Development
Complementary FeedingEarly Childhood DevelopmentFood SecurityInfant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)
A case study based on the UNICEF Action Framework for improving the diets of young children during the complementary feeding period.
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
Complementary Feeding in Emergencies Programming in Sudan
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Early Childhood Development
Complementary FeedingEarly Childhood DevelopmentFood SecurityInfant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)
A case study based on the UNICEF Action Framework for improving the diets of young children during the complementary feeding period.
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
Review of Experiences and Direction on Complementary Feeding in Emergencies (CFE): Putting Policy Into Practice
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Early Childhood Development
BreastfeedingComplementary FeedingWater, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH)
This review indicates that the provisions of the Operational Guidance on IFE regarding CFE are not being met. Worryingly, we identified no clear examples of strong CFE preparedness and response; most KIs described common shortfalls and challenges, from coordination and leadership to resourcing, supply chain and poor inter-sector coordination and collaboration.
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
Finding the Best Criteria to Identify Children at High Risk of Mortality
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Adolescent Nutrition
Being concurrently wasted and stunted (WaSt), even at moderate levels, is associated with considerable excess mortality in children comparable to that associated with severe wasting.