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.
Utiliser la recherche pour concevoir une stratégie de changement social et comportemental pour une nutrition multisectorielle
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Social and Behavior Change and Gender
Les responsables des programmes de changement social et comportemental (CSC) en matière de nutrition peuvent utiliser cet outil lors de la conception d’un programme ou d’une activité pour transformer les résultats de la recherche en une stratégie de CSC conduisant à des comportements nutritionnels optimaux.
Evaluation of Global Experiences in Large-Scale Double-Fortified Salt Programs
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Monitoring, Evaluation, and LearningAnemia
Despite the efficacy of double-fortified salt (DFS) in improving hemoglobin, ferritin, anemia, and iron deficiency anemia, there has been limited experience with its production and distribution at scale within programs. Across the world, program managers, researchers, and salt production companies have jointly attempted to introduce DFS in various settings and circumstances.
Seasonal Variation in Maternal Dietary Diversity is Reduced by Small-Scale Irrigation Practices: A Longitudinal Study
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Food SystemsMaternal Nutrition
In observed areas of rural Ethiopia, where women experienced high seasonal variation in their diets and energy intakes, their dietary diversity was low. This could be partly offset by adopting irrigation practices.
Suivi de l’évolution sociale et du changement de comportement dans le cadre d’une nutrition multisectorielle
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Social and Behavior Change and Gender
Les responsables des programmes de changement social et comportemental en matière de nutrition peuvent utiliser cet outil pendant la conception et la mise en oeuvre du programme pour sélectionner des indicateurs, suivre les progrès et procéder à des adaptations.
Renforcer la nutrition maternelle dans les programmes de santé: un guide pour les practiciens
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Nutrition and Health SystemsMaternal Nutrition
Ce guide actualisé fournit des recommandations étape par étape pour ajouter ou renforcer les composantes de nutrition maternelle dans les programmes ou les services fournis par le système de santé, y compris les actions visant à renforcer le système de santé global et l’environnement favorable.
Отзывчивый уход для улучшения развития в раннем детстве: страновой профиль Кыргызской Республики
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Early Childhood DevelopmentEarly Childhood Development
Данный профиль объединяет национальные данные вместе с информацией о национальной политике и программах, для выделения как потребностей, так и возможностей для содействия оптимальному развитию детей в Кыргызской Республике.
Comparing Costs and Cost-Efficiency of Platforms for Micronutrient Powder (MNP) Delivery to Children in Rural Uganda
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Monitoring, Evaluation, and LearningMicronutrient Interventions
Undernutrition remains a serious threat to the health and wellbeing of women and children in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). This peer-reviewed publication describes a study supported by USAID Advancing Nutrition to compare costs and cost-efficiency of platforms for micronutrient powder (MNP) delivery to children in rural Uganda.
The Strategic Agenda for At-Scale Nutrition Social and Behavior Change Communication
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Social and Behavior Change and GenderBehavior Change for Nutrition
The strategic agenda is a blueprint for creating social and behavior change communication programs that contribute to the widespread social and individual behavior changes needed to meet broad nutrition commitments.
This one-page fact sheet describes USAID Advancing Nutrition's support to the government of Niger as it works to reduce malnutrition and micronutrient deficiencies by addressing the prevalence of anemia among women of reproductive age (WRA) and adolescents, as well as vitamin A deficiency among children under 5. A version of this document is available in French.
Les choses à faire et à ne pas faire en matière de changement social et comportemental
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Social and Behavior Change and GenderBehavior Change for Nutrition
Cet outil aide les planificateurs et les exécutants de programmes de nutrition à améliorer la qualité à chaque étape de nutrition multisectorielle et changement social et comportemental, de la conception à la livraison, le monitorage, et l’adaptation.
Monitoring and Evaluation Online Course Repository
Introduction to DHS Nutrition Indicators
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Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning
This DHS Nutrition Indicators course is designed to orient national stakeholders such as professionals from ministries of health, civil society, and multilaterals to the nutrition indicators reported in The DHS Program surveys and how to interpret them. Both generalists and technical staff who work in nutrition, as well as policy makers and program managers, will benefit from this course.
Household-level Consumption Data Can Be Redistributed for Individual-level Optifood Diet Modeling: Analysis from Four Countries
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Monitoring, Evaluation, and LearningFood Systems
Improving dietary quality requires changes across food and agriculture systems to improve access to affordable nutritious foods, especially for women and young children. Local, national, and global leaders need reliable data to inform policies that strengthen the food systems families depend on.
Women and girls have unique nutritional requirements throughout the life cycle—especially during adolescence, before and during pregnancy, and while breastfeeding.
Suitability of Data Collection Methods, Tools, and Metrics for Evaluating Market Food Environments in Low- and Middle-Income Countries
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Food SystemsMonitoring, Evaluation, and LearningFood Systems
This peer-reviewed publication describes a study conducted by USAID Advancing Nutrition to identify assessments (methods, tools, and metrics) suitable for evaluating market food environments in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). Findings highlight suitable assessments and recommended adaptations to existing assessments to strengthen market food environment evaluation in LMICs.
Monitoring, Evaluation, and LearningBuilding Global ConsensusCOVID-19Resilience
This comprehensive nutrition and COVID-19 pandemic analytical framework focuses on the pathways connecting the secondary impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on nutrition outcomes in both children and adults.
Strengthening Nutrition Activities through Gender Integration
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Social and Behavior Change and GenderGenderGrowth Monitoring and PromotionNutrition Assessment, Counseling, and Support (NACS)
A brief informed by gender analyses considers how gender differences may affect nutrition services and programming. A key aspect of the social and behavior change work of USAID Advancing Nutrition includes unpacking and responding to the social and gender norms that influence nutrition. The brief includes a review of staff learning and examples of gender integration across the project.
Nourishing Heroínas in Mozambique: Understanding, Designing with, and Tailoring Nutrition Interventions to Adolescent Girls
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Social and Behavior Change and GenderAdolescent Nutrition
A human-centered design approach to creating behavior change interventions can help identify users’ motivations, abilities, and opportunities. While time consuming and resource intensive, continuous learning through ideation, prototyping, and iteration provides valuable insights into users’ realities. This paper is available in English and Portuguese.
Complexity-Aware Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning for Social and Behavior Change Interventions
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Social and Behavior Change and GenderInfant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)
Contextual, temporal, and interpretive complexities impact most social and behavior change interventions. These complexity-aware tools include an advocacy brief; a core set of indicators related to collaborating, learning, and adapting; and a checklist to improve consistency and completeness of intervention documentation.
Maternal Diets in India: Gaps, Barriers, and Opportunities
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Social and Behavior Change and GenderGenderMaternal NutritionNutrition Sensitive Agriculture
Food unavailability and poor economic situations, limited exposure to nutrition counseling, food restrictions and beliefs, adverse family influence and gender norms, and gaps in knowledge constrain healthy diets.