USAID Advancing Nutrition develops, curates, packages, and shares multi-sectoral nutrition knowledge to help you stay on top of developments and evidence in global nutrition programming.
USAID Advancing Nutrition speakers provide an overview of the Community of Practice and its goals, discuss how it is using the Nutrition-Sensitive Agriculture Design Guide to facilitate workshops targeting agriculture and economic growth activities that have a nutrition objective, and explain how others can join. This is a webinar.
Food systems approaches such as True Cost and Value Accounting provide holistic assessments of the consequences and benefits of different food and nutrition interventions and evidence to improve nutrition strategies and policies. This webinar was a Nutrition for Growth Summit Side Event.
Food SystemsMicronutrient InterventionsNutrition Assessment, Counseling, and Support (NACS)
The Diet Quality Questionnaire captures dietary adequacy and dietary risk factors for noncommunicable diseases and enables monitoring of trends and comparisons across demographics. The Global Diet Quality Project enables the collection of comparable population-level dietary data within and across countries.
Global Diet Quality Score is Inversely Associated with Nutrient Inadequacy, Low Midupper Arm Circumference, and Anemia in Rural Adults in Ten Sub-Saharan African Countries
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Food Systems
Researchers evaluated the comparative performance of the Global Diet Quality Score (GDQS) against other diet metrics to capture nutrient adequacy and undernutrition. The GDQS performed comparably with the Minimum Dietary Diversity–Women indicator in capturing adequacy outcomes.
Integrating Nutrition and Food Safety in Food Systems Policy and Programming
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Food SystemsFood Safety
Malnutrition and foodborne disease are interrelated in terms of physiology, human behavior, and policy and have large public health and economic costs. While these two issues are often addressed separately in policy, programs, and research, a more integrated approach to address them within the food system is needed.
Nurturing Care for Every Newborn: Ensuring Every Newborn Survives and Thrives
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Early Childhood DevelopmentBreastfeedingCOVID-19Infant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH)
The thematic brief introduced outlines the five components of nurturing care and presents practical actions to strengthen nurturing environments for newborns, including those who are born early, small, or ill. It is critical to invest in policies, health systems, and community awareness to provide developmentally supportive care. This is a webinar.
Standards for Healthy Eating, Physical Activity, Sedentary Behaviour, and Sleep in Early Childhood Education and Care Settings: A Toolkit
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Early Childhood DevelopmentAdolescent Nutrition
These global standards support early child education and care providers to provide healthy foods and beverages and ensure young children are physically active, avoid excess sedentary time, and get enough sleep in childcare and education settings.
Seen, Counted, Included: Using Data to Shed Light on the Well-Being of Children with Disabilities
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Early Childhood DevelopmentAdolescent NutritionCOVID-19Infant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH)
When absent from official statistics, children and adults with disabilities remain politically and socially invisible, which increases marginalization and potential rights violations.
COVID-19 and Early Childhood Development in Low- and Middle-Income Countries
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Early Childhood DevelopmentCOVID-19Infant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)
Authors describe the nature and scope of existing early childhood development (ECD) evidence related to nurturing care components for young children, including health, nutrition, child protection, opportunities for learning, and responsive caregiving.
Strengthening Psychosocial Stimulation in the Management of Children With Severe Acute Malnutrition: Experience From a Nutrition Rehabilitation Center
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Early Childhood DevelopmentWasting
Most countries are moving toward home-based management of uncomplicated severe acute malnutrition (SAM) among children. Strengthening the support of sensory and psychosocial stimulation and structured play in facility and community-based care of SAM children will help them to survive and thrive.
A Family-Centered Intervention to Monitor Children's Development in a Pediatric Outpatient Setting: Design and Feasibility Testing
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Early Childhood DevelopmentGrowth Monitoring and Promotion
Integrated developmental monitoring requires continued efforts and engagement on the part of both the health care provider and the families. Findings suggest that developmental monitoring with support for families is acceptable to families and trainees and that the intervention demonstrates operational feasibility.
Tools to Advance Localization: The LEAF and USAID's Locally Led Development Checklist
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Capacity Strengthening
The Local Engagement Assessment Framework (LEAF) is a planning and assessment tool to determine the level of ownership by national and community actors at every level of a project. It helps users determine who should be engaged and how, and provides standardized language about ownership to adapt in different contexts.
The "Big 5" Topics that LIPs Must Know to Successfully Manage USAID Awards
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Capacity Strengthening
Topics include understanding the USAID Agreement, standard provisions for nongovernmental organizations based outside the United States, cost principles, the 10 percent indirect cost rate, and prime and subaward relationship management. This is a webinar.
New Tools: Multi-Sectoral Planning and Designing Multi-Stakeholder Platforms
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Capacity Strengthening
The toolkits focus on the design of successful multi-stakeholder platforms to improve intersectoral coordination for nutrition. Stakeholders will learn relevant steps within the country-led process, find guidance on approaches, and identify appropriate and useful resources to support this process.
Global Capacity Needs Assessment Methodology: Integrating Nutrition Objectives Into Agricultural Extension and Advisory Services Programmes and Policies
The methodology examines capacity gaps and opportunities to strengthen individual, organizational, and enabling-environment capacities to integrate nutrition objectives and outcomes into agricultural programs and policies. It also identifies knowledge gaps in training materials on nutrition-sensitive agriculture. It is available in English and French.
This one-page fact sheet describes USAID Advancing Nutrition's support to the government of Nigeria as it works to strengthen wasting prevention and improve the quality of nutrition services and approaches. The project is also working to generate evidence and test innovative approaches to inform future program design.
Partnering for Nutrition-Sensitive Agriculture to Reduce Malnutrition in India Fact Sheet
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Nutrition-Sensitive Agriculture Design Guide Community of PracticeAdolescent NutritionNutrition Sensitive Agriculture
This fact sheet, downloadable in both English and Hindi, describes USAID Advancing Nutrition's work in Assam, India to address malnutrition among socioeconomically disadvantaged families through nutrition-sensitive agriculture and to create mechanisms for the exchange of knowledge and information on nutrition-sensitive agriculture approaches to reducing malnutrition.