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Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Rethinking Responsive Feeding: Insights from Bangladesh
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Early Childhood Development
Complementary FeedingInfant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)
Most measures of responsive feeding do not include bidirectional mother-infant responsivity or early learning principles and have not been validated against observations.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Effectiveness of Family-Centered Program for Enhancing Competencies of Responsive Parenting among Caregivers for Early Childhood Development in Rural India
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Early Childhood Development
Adolescent NutritionFood SecurityInfant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)Nutrition Assessment, Counseling, and Support (NACS)
Researchers assessed caregivers’ knowledge and skills about child development and evaluated the effect of an intervention on the home environment, mother-child interactions, and development outcomes in India. Locally adapted curriculum improved competencies and confidence to promote early child development.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Strengthening Policy Research and Analysis Capacity: The Role of Institutional Development Programs
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Capacity Strengthening
Collaborative food systems transformation research can play a valuable role in building long-term capacity to generate policymaking. Panelists and discussants explore lessons learned for strengthening policy research and analysis capacity. This is a webinar.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Expanding Integrated Competency-Focused Health Worker Curricula for Maternal, Infant, and Young Child Nutrition
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Capacity Strengthening
Infant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)Maternal NutritionMicronutrient InterventionsNutrition Assessment, Counseling, and Support (NACS)
To ensure health workers have the knowledge, skills, and confidence to deliver nutrition services and accurate information, they need evidence-based competency standards; tools for learning, teaching, and assessment; and outcome monitoring.
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Social Behavior Change to Improve Maternal Nutrition: Exploring New Resources Webinar
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Social and Behavior Change and Gender
Throughout the life cycle, women have unique nutritional needs, particularly during adolescence, pregnancy, and lactation. Improving women’s nutrition during these periods has multiple benefits for maternal health and wellbeing, newborn and young child survival, health and nutrition, all producing positive effects on the next generations.
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Exploring the Anemia Ecology: A New Approach to an Old Problem Webinar Part I
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Monitoring, Evaluation, and LearningBuilding Global Consensus
Anemia is a multifaceted condition that affects millions of people globally. Part I of this webinar series covered key results of a review by the Anemia Task Force and discuss the implications of these findings.
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
Exclusive Breastfeeding: Measurement to Match the Global Recommendation
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Monitoring, Evaluation, and LearningNutrition and Health Systems
BreastfeedingInfant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)
The World Health Organization (WHO) and United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) recommend exclusive breastfeeding (EBF) for the first 6 months of life. To estimate the proportion of infants that are exclusively breastfed, many agencies use the point prevalence of EBF among infants currently 0–5.9 months of age, as recommended by WHO and UNICEF.
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Complementary Feeding in Emergencies Programming and Resources Webinar
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Nutrition in Humanitarian ContextsImproving Women and Children’s Diets in Emergency Contexts
Experts share findings on complementary feeding in emergencies programming in alignment with the Action Framework, and tools and resources related to complementary feeding in emergencies.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Illustrative Behaviors to Improve Nutrition-Sensitive Agriculture
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Social and Behavior Change and Gender
Food SafetyNutrition Sensitive AgriculturePrivate-Sector EngagementWater, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH)
This tool highlights behaviors related to food supply, food environment, and food and water use and presents examples of what is required to ensure behaviors are nutrition sensitive. It will help activity designers and implementers design more effective approaches to increase the adoption of behaviors to improve nutrition outcomes.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Association Between Intimate Partner Violence and Nutritional Status of Married Nepalese Women
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Social and Behavior Change and Gender
AnemiaGenderMaternal Nutrition
Emotional and physical intimate partner violence (IPV) was significantly associated with increased risk of overweight/obesity, sexual IPV was significantly associated with increased risk of underweight (measured by body mass index), and controlling behavior was significantly associated with increased risk of anemia.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
The Increasing Imperative for Resilient Food Systems in Times of Crisis: What Can Donors Do?
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Nutrition in Humanitarian Contexts
COVID-19Emergency NutritionFood SecurityGenderPrivate-Sector EngagementResilience
The COVID-19 pandemic, skyrocketing food prices, and the war in Ukraine are all impacting food security, and these crises require strategies to address short-term consequences and long-term investments. Donor engagement should focus on coordination, systemic approaches to improve resilience in agriculture, rural development, and food systems.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
The Impact of Food Insecurity on Women and Girls: Research from Pibor and Akobo Counties, Jonglei State, South Sudan
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Nutrition in Humanitarian Contexts
WastingAdolescent NutritionCOVID-19Emergency NutritionFood SecurityGenderMaternal NutritionWater, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH)
Acute food insecurity has impacted women and girls in many ways. Collecting firewood to sell has increased the risk of gender-based violence and robbery, while girls’ school attendance has decreased due to increased workload and more forced and early marriages. Women have lost significant control of productive resources and household decision-making.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Food Distributions in Myanmar: Responding to the COVID-19 Pandemic and the Coup d’État
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Nutrition in Humanitarian Contexts
Complementary FeedingCOVID-19Emergency NutritionFood SecurityInfant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)Maternal NutritionMicronutrient InterventionsWater, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH)
Working with communities to identify the lowest cost, most nutrient-dense, and culturally acceptable foods will ensure more successful food distribution.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Navigating Transitions: Current Global Challenges in School-Age and Adolescent Health
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Nutrition and Health Systems
Adolescent NutritionCOVID-19Gender
Speakers discuss the impact of, and response to, the COVID-19 pandemic in South Asia, the future of adolescent health and well-being in sub-Saharan Africa, and the delivery of arts-based sexual and mental health education with Indigenous youth.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Re-Imagining Technical Assistance for Maternal, Newborn, & Child Health and Health Systems Strengthening
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Nutrition and Health Systems
Adolescent NutritionInfant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)
Stakeholders defined current concerns with technical assistance, identified their root causes, and developed innovative and context-specific solutions. Developing a more collaborative and less dependent relationship between governments and donors and shifting from siloed projects to more holistic and patient-centered work are important.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
How AI Is Transforming Maternal Health Care in Vietnam
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Knowledge ManagementNutrition and Health Systems
Adolescent NutritionAnemiaBehavior Change for NutritionBreastfeedingCOVID-19GenderInfant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)Maternal NutritionNutrition Assessment, Counseling, and Support (NACS)
The Momby app is a virtual assistant that provides nutritional advice and education on fetal development, bonding practices, essential newborn care, and breastfeeding. Users can make health care appointments and ask questions in real time. The app also features a version for fathers.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Iron, Folic Acid, and Multiple Micronutrient Supplementation Strategies during Pregnancy and Adverse Birth Outcomes in Botswana
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Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning
AnemiaMaternal NutritionMicronutrient Interventions
Researchers tested four supplementation strategies and found that women who used multiple micronutrient supplementation had lower risk of preterm and very preterm births and low and very low birthweight when compared with other supplementation protocols.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Making the Most of Existing Research: An Evidence Gap Map of the Effects of Food Systems Interventions in Low-Income and Middle-Income Countries
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Food Systems
AnemiaFood SecurityFood SystemsGenderMaternal NutritionMicronutrient InterventionsNutrition Assessment, Counseling, and Support (NACS)Nutrition Sensitive Agriculture
The most common interventions to address malnutrition included providing supplements, fortification, food, nutrition classes, and peer support and counseling. Anthropometry, micronutrient status, and diet quality and adequacy were the most common outcomes.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Impacts of Consumption of Ultra-Processed Foods on the Maternal-Child Health: A Systematic Review
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Food Systems
Adolescent NutritionMaternal Nutrition
Consuming large quantities of ultra-processed food had negative impacts on women’s health during pregnancy and lactat
Adolescent Nutrition Resource Bank
Restrictions on the Marketing of Unhealthy Food and Non-Alcoholic Beverages to Children Advocacy Cartoons
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Adolescent NutritionFood Security
These cartoons are part of a larger advocacy package developed by UNICEF to support the design, implementation, enforcement, and evaluation of various strategies aimed at ensuring a safe and healthy food environment to prevent childhood overweight and obesity.