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Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Storytelling for Persuasion: Insights from Community Health Workers on How They Engage Family Members to Improve Adoption of Recommended Maternal Nutrition and Breastfeeding Behaviours in Rural Bangladesh
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Nutrition and Health Systems
Adolescent NutritionBreastfeedingMaternal NutritionNutrition Assessment, Counseling, and Support (NACS)
Mothers, fathers, and mothers-in-law in Bangladesh each responded to different types of messaging from community health workers counseling families on maternal, infant, and young child nutrition. Key motivators were improved fetal growth and child intelligence, while improved maternal health was the least motivating outcome, even among mothers.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Can Digitally Enabling Community Health and Nutrition Workers Improve Services Delivery to Pregnant Women and Mothers of Infants? Quasi-Experimental Evidence from a National-Scale Nutrition Programme in India
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Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning
Infant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)Maternal NutritionNutrition Assessment, Counseling, and Support (NACS)
Integrating a mobile app with existing services improved timeliness of home visits and appropriate counseling, especially when existing service levels were low, but did not impact infant and young child feeding practices. Digital enhancements can complement but should not replace other efforts to strengthen health systems and address structural barriers.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
The Sustainable Development Goals Report 2022
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Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning
COVID-19Emergency NutritionGenderGrowth Monitoring and Promotion
Intersecting crises, especially the COVID-19 pandemic, climate change, and conflict, jeopardized the Sustainable Development Goals. Intersecting solutions, including strengthening social protection systems and public services and investing in clean energy, will address root causes of environmental degradation, climate change, and increasing inequality.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Fortified Balanced Energy-Protein Supplementation, Maternal Anemia, and Gestational Weight Gain: A Randomized Controlled Efficacy Trial Among Pregnant Women in Rural Burkina Faso
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Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning
AnemiaMaternal NutritionMicronutrient Interventions
In Burkina Faso, fortified balanced energy-protein supplementation (BEP) did not reduce maternal anemia or increase gestational weight gain when compared with iron–folic acid. Small positive effects of maternal BEP supplementation on birth outcomes support the need for additional investigation of different biochemical and postnatal outcomes.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Exclusive Breastfeeding: Measurement to Match the Global Recommendation
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Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning
Breastfeeding
Twenty-four-hour recalls of exclusive breastfeeding (EBF) often overestimate the percentage of infants exclusively breastfed. Researchers compared five other methods to measure EBF.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Estimating National and Subnational Nutrient Intake Distributions of Global Diets
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Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning
AnemiaGenderMicronutrient InterventionsNutrition Sensitive Agriculture
Researchers found nutrient intake distributions were rarely symmetric, while variability and skewness differed significantly based on nutrient and population subgroup. The shape of nutrient intake distributions strongly influenced estimates of nutrient intake inadequacy.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
USAID Administrator Power on the State of Global Food Security and Nutrition
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Knowledge Management
WastingAdolescent NutritionCOVID-19Emergency NutritionFood SecurityInfant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)Micronutrient InterventionsNutrition Assessment, Counseling, and Support (NACS)
The COVID-19 pandemic, climate change, and conflict have increased the number of acutely food insecure people to historic highs; the war in Ukraine will add to this number, which is projected to reach 323 million people in 2022. USAID, technical experts, and philanthropists pursuing public-private investment discuss steps to combat the worsening crisis. This is a webinar.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
USAID Nutrition Report to Congress FY22
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Knowledge Management
WastingAnemiaBreastfeedingCOVID-19Food SecurityInfant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)Maternal NutritionMicronutrient Interventions
The report discusses country-specific stunting, wasting, anemia, and breastfeeding gains in the face of COVID-19 shocks and the climate crisis.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Programming to Improve Adolescent Nutrition Is Essential—and These Resources Can Help
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Knowledge Management
Adolescent NutritionWater, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH)
The Adolescent Nutrition Resource Bank provides hundreds of policies, program examples, guidance, and tools to help stakeholders design, improve, and expand programs and services. Research to determine how to design effective programs and materials should disaggregate by residence, education, wealth, agency, access to food, culture, and physiological status.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Mom Knows Best: Equipping Mothers in the Kyrgyz Republic with Nutrition Know-How
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Knowledge Management
Adolescent NutritionBreastfeedingComplementary FeedingCOVID-19Infant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)
Counseling for parents focuses on optimal nutrition for families through breastfeeding and infant and young child feeding practices. Training sessions cover proper breastfeeding posture, frequency of breastfeeding, and good maternal diet to support infant health.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Good Nutrition Better Lives, Focus on Africa—Episode 34
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Knowledge Management
BreastfeedingFood SecurityNutrition Sensitive Agriculture
Speakers discuss developing youth agribusiness hubs, adapting to climate change through better rangeland management and improved livestock feed, promoting nutrition in agribusiness, and how healthy diets can contribute to healthy economies through agriculture, among other topics. This is a podcast.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Bite the Talk Ep 14—Nothing about Us without Us
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Knowledge Management
GenderGrowth Monitoring and PromotionPrivate-Sector Engagement
Representatives from youth-driven organizations advocate for young people to be aware, equipped, empowered, and engaged to address food and nutrition issues. Speakers seek greater understanding of how government, business, other development actors, and young people can work together to ensure food system sustainability. This is a podcast with a transcript.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Are Healthy Diets Affordable? Using New Data on Retail Prices and Diet Costs to Guide Agricultural and Food Policy
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Food Systems
Food Security
With a focus on diet costs and affordability, speakers discuss data sources and methods for policy-relevant analyses, implications of global variations, and food policy research and monitoring priorities. They advocate for policy analyses to inform agrifood systems transformation. This is a webinar.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World 2022
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Food Systems
Adolescent NutritionAnemiaBreastfeedingCOVID-19Emergency NutritionFood SecurityGenderGrowth Monitoring and PromotionNutrition Sensitive AgriculturePrivate-Sector EngagementResilience
Governments need to assess how they can reallocate existing public budgets to be more cost-effective and efficient to reduce the cost of nutritious foods and equitably increase the availability and affordability of healthy diets.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Measuring Dietary Diversity: Evaluating a Novel Cell Phone Method to Extend the Reference Period without Increasing the Cognitive Burden on Respondents in Ethiopia
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Food Systems
Adolescent NutritionInfant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)Maternal Nutrition
Collecting dietary diversity data through high-frequency phone call surveys rather than through a one-time, in-person survey produced a lower household dietary diversity score but a higher women’s dietary diversity score, suggesting that the recall period impacts overreporting and underreporting food consumption.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
From Food Price Crisis to an Equitable Food System
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Food Systems
Adolescent NutritionCOVID-19Food SecurityGenderNutrition Sensitive AgriculturePrivate-Sector EngagementResilience
Well-designed emergency cash and food distribution programs, social safety nets, school food programs, integrated nutrition interventions, and universal health care can improve outcomes for those facing food insecurity and malnutrition. These programs can also improve gender equality and climate change resilience.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
The Impact of Climate Change on Food Systems, Diet Quality, Nutrition, and Health Outcomes: A Narrative Review
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Food Systems
COVID-19Food SecurityGenderInfant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)Nutrition Sensitive AgriculturePrivate-Sector EngagementResilience
Sustainable, resilient food systems and climate-smart agriculture are needed to ensure diverse, nutritious diets.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
The Pediatrician’s Role in Supporting Nurturing Care for Early Childhood Development
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Early Childhood Development
BreastfeedingComplementary FeedingFood SecurityInfant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH)
Opportunities to promote early childhood development include ensuring access to good-quality health and nutrition services, making services more supportive of nurturing care, and increasing outreach to families and children with the greatest risk of poor development.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Situational Analysis of Early Childhood Care and Development Services in Ghana
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Early Childhood Development
Growth Monitoring and PromotionInfant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)Nutrition Assessment, Counseling, and Support (NACS)
Recommendations include strengthening responsive care, early learning, safety and security, and counseling and support services.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
How to Engage Men in Nurturing Care across the Life Stages
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Early Childhood Development
GenderInfant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)Maternal Nutrition
This infographic shows how to support men in providing nurturing care from pregnancy to early childhood. It provides a curriculum, guidance, and checklists to train health care providers to increase father engagement.