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Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Program Guidance Engaging Family Members in Improving Maternal and Child Nutrition
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Social and Behavior Change and Gender
Infant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)Maternal Nutrition
Due to their influence on decision-making, there is a strong case for engaging fathers, grandparents, and other key family members in maternal and child nutrition programs. Their involvement increases awareness of recommended practices and can increase supportive attitudes and behaviors including exclusive breastfeeding and complementary feeding practices.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Counseling Is a Relationship Not Just a Skill: Re-Conceptualizing Health Behavior Change Communication by India’s Accredited Social Health Activists
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Social and Behavior Change and Gender
Infant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)
The ability of accredited social health activists to improve health outcomes depends on their relationships with families and the support from the health system. Training to improve interpersonal communication and develop strong relationships with community members will improve their efficacy as health behavior change communicators.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Bringing Greater Precision to Interactions between Community Health Workers and Households to Improve Maternal and Newborn Health Outcomes in India
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Social and Behavior Change and Gender
BreastfeedingInfant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)Maternal Nutrition
Community health worker (CHW) presence, number, and timing of visits, counseling, and behavior change messaging strategies, and focus on specific household members are associated with recommended maternal and newborn care practices, including early initiation of and exclusive breastfeeding.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
USAID Local Capacity Development Policy
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Capacity Strengthening
Core local development policy principles include responding to local priorities, leveraging local strengths and assets, being mindful of and mitigating unintended consequences of engagement, and nurturing local ownership through partnerships based on mutuality.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Decolonizing Global Health: Perspectives from Nurses and Midwives
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Capacity Strengthening
Panelists discuss the history of communities most affected by interventions being left out of priority setting, funding structures, program design, and implementation. They outline steps to dismantle these inequities and ensure that future policy and programmatic work is community-led, responsive, and people-centered. This is a webinar.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
An Approach to Building Equitable Global Health Research Collaborations
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Capacity Strengthening
The authors present a model for developing productive, equitable research partnerships between researchers and practitioners from high- and low-income countries. Model elements include mission and goal alignment, meaningful training and mentoring, capacity building, and co-authorship principles.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Transforming Capacity-Strengthening in an Era of Sustainable Development
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Capacity Strengthening
District health managers (DHMs) are charged with turning policies and resources into accessible and high-quality health services, but resource uncertainty and limited decision-making authority limit their ability to do so. Successful capacity strengthening requires understanding individual, organizational, and contextual factors that influence the work of DHMs.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
A Review of Leadership and Capacity Gaps in Nutrition-Sensitive Agricultural Policies and Strategies for Selected Countries in Sub-Saharan Africa and Asia
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Capacity Strengthening
Nutrition Sensitive Agriculture
In assessing the degree to which agricultural policies, programs, and investments are nutrition-sensitive, authors argue that there is limited capacity to translate policy and program instruments into effective action. This article is behind a paywall.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Research, Development and Capacity Building for Food and Nutrition Security in Sub-Saharan Africa
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Capacity Strengthening
Food Security
Improving food and nutrition security requires broad access to secondary, tertiary, and vocational education and skill development training, and women’s leadership and engagement in training. It also requires commitment to research and development, biotechnology, indigenous knowledge, and information and communication technologies.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Global Nutrition Cluster | Roles and Responsibilities of Nutrition Cluster Partners within the Cluster Approach at Country Level
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Nutrition in Humanitarian Contexts
This graphic provides guidance on partners' roles in needs assessment and analysis, strategic response planning, resource mobilization, implementation and monitoring, operational peer review, and evaluation. It also provides detailed steps for coordination, information management, and preparedness. Available in English and Arabic.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Experiences of the Integrated Management of Acute Malnutrition (IMAM) Programme in Nepal: From Pilot to Scale Up
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Nutrition in Humanitarian Contexts
WastingEmergency NutritionInfant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)Maternal Nutrition
This program addresses severe wasting in the context of humanitarian crises. Sustainability relies on a government-owned and -managed approach, a strong policy framework, national and devolved governance architecture, commitment and dedicated financing, and services integrated within a well-developed community health system and delivered by skilled government health workers.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Improving Nutritional Status among Urban Poor Children in Sub-Saharan Africa: An Evidence-Informed Delphi-Based Consultation
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Nutrition in Humanitarian Contexts
Infant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)
Little is known about how urbanization influences infant and young child (IYC) feeding practices, and evidence-based interventions to improve IYC health/nutrition among the urban poor are lacking. To maximize effectiveness, future complementary feeding interventions should include an assessment of diet quality and consider nutrition-sensitive factors during development and evaluation.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Fortified Blended Flour Supplements Displace Plain Cereals in Feeding of Young Children
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Nutrition in Humanitarian Contexts
BreastfeedingInfant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)
Lipid-based nutritional supplements and fortified blended flours are widely used to increase nutrient density of children's diets and improve health. Due to their small stomach size and rapid growth velocity, infants need higher nutrient density foods than do other family members.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Nutritional Interventions: Multiple Micronutrient and Vitamin D Supplements during Pregnancy
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Nutrition and Health Systems
Micronutrient InterventionsMaternal Nutrition
This guideline includes updated recommendations include multiple micronutrient and vitamin D supplement during pregnancy. Viewers must request an invitation to watch this webinar but there is no fee to do so.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
WHO Antenatal Care Recommendations for a Positive Pregnancy Experience: Nutritional Interventions Update: Multiple Micronutrient Supplements during Pregnancy
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Nutrition and Health Systems
Micronutrient InterventionsMaternal Nutrition
This guideline includes updated recommendations include multiple micronutrient supplements and vitamin D supplements during pregnancy.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Field Exchange 63
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Nutrition and Health Systems
WastingAdolescent NutritionInfant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)Micronutrient Interventions
The articles in this South Asia edition focus on integrating nutrition interventions into primary health care to prevent and treat wasting, integrating management of children with acute malnutrition in pediatric inpatient facilities, supporting healthy growth in infants in low-resource settings, integrating screening for acute malnutrition into the vitamin A supplementation campaign in the Rohi
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Insights on Exclusive Breastfeeding Norms in Kinshasa: Findings from a Qualitative Study
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Nutrition and Health Systems
Breastfeeding
Focus group discussions with young first-time mothers (FTMs), male partners, mothers, and mothers-in-law to identify norms that influence exclusive breastfeeding found important barriers. For instance, FTMs believed exclusive breastfeeding was uncommon and would result in social sanctions from the community.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Characteristics and Outcomes of Neonatal SARS-CoV-2 Infection in the UK: A Prospective National Cohort Study Using Active Surveillance
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Nutrition and Health Systems
COVID-19
This study, conducted among babies with confirmed SARS-CoV-2 infection in the first 28 days of life who received inpatient care, found that infection following birth to a mother with perinatal SARS-CoV-2 infection was unlikely, and vertical transmission rare. This supports current international guidance to avoid separation of mother and baby.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Combined IYCF with Small-Quantity Lipid-based Nutrient Supplementation Is Associated with a Reduction in Anemia
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Nutrition and Health Systems
AnemiaGrowth Monitoring and Promotion
Researchers analyzed data from 2,995 children after an intervention area received enhanced infant and young child feeding counseling and daily small-quantity lipid-based nutrient supplementation for infants 6–12 months and a control area received the standard counseling package without the nutrient supplementation.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Questionnaire Modules: Food Insecurity Experience Scale (FIES from FAO)
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Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning
Food Security
The FIES questionnaire comprises eight questions that measure moderate and severe household food insecurity. The module asks respondents to self-report their access to food of sufficient quantity and quality for the last 12 months. Questions focus on a lack of money and resources to obtain food.