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Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
A Virtual Training of Trainers: Adaptations from COVID-19
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COVID-19Nutrition Sensitive Agriculture
Rise Against Hunger staff discuss shifting to a virtual training-of-trainers model in South Sudan due to COVID-19. This is a webinar.
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
New Partnerships Initiative and USAID Advancing Nutrition
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Capacity Strengthening
USAID Advancing Nutrition has funding available through the New Partnerships Initiative (NPI) to support organizations to implement multi-sectoral nutrition projects in USAID global health priority countries.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
A Learning and Sharing “Café”: IYCF Programming Adaptations in the Context of COVID-19 – Second Cafe
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Social and Behavior Change and Gender
BreastfeedingCOVID-19Infant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)
This platform encourages countries to share lessons learned and experiences with adapting infant and young child feeding (IYCF) programs during COVID-19. It provides videos on breastfeeding and complementary feeding, social media content on IYCF, a detailed review of counseling packages for IYCF, and materials focusing on feeding when COVID is suspected or confirmed.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Managing Nutrition Myths and Misconceptions During COVID-19: Technical Brief
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Social and Behavior Change and Gender
BreastfeedingCOVID-19
Misinformation has led to unnecessary separation of infants and mothers with suspected or confirmed COVID-19 infection during delivery and breastfeeding. It has also led to mistrust of the health care system, delayed care-seeking of nutrition services, and limited uptake of COVID-19 preventive practices.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Make Me a Change Agent: An SBC Resource for WASH, Agriculture, and Livelihoods Activities
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Social and Behavior Change and Gender
Economic GrowthWater, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH)
This guide focuses on training frontline workers to promote behavior change related to water, sanitation, and hygiene, agriculture, and livelihoods. The highly participatory training includes lessons on effective communication, facilitation, negotiation, social and behavior change, action planning, quality improvement, and giving and receiving feedback.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Guidance on SBC for Nutrition During COVID-19: Technical Brief
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Social and Behavior Change and Gender
COVID-19Infant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)
Practitioners must find new ways to engage families and communities while following physical distancing guidelines and may need to adapt messaging and calls to action to acknowledge the reality of people’s daily lives.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Men's Nutrition Knowledge is Important for Women's and Children's Nutrition in Ethiopia
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Social and Behavior Change and Gender
Maternal NutritionNutrition Assessment, Counseling, and Support (NACS)
Men's nutrition knowledge has significant, positive, and additive associations with households', children's, and women's dietary diversity. Research exploring how nutrition knowledge is gendered and how to engage men in programming may lead to better nutrition outcomes.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Gender Accommodative Versus Transformative Approaches: A Comparative Assessment within a Post-Harvest Fish Loss Reduction Intervention
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Social and Behavior Change and Gender
A gender transformative approach encourages critical awareness of gender norms, challenges gender-based work and resource allocations, and addresses power relationships between women and others in the community. It encourages women and men to jointly identify shifts in norms or behaviors they would like to see and provides space to test new ways of engaging.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Prevention, Early Detection and Treatment of Wasting in Children 0-59 Months through National Health Systems in the Context of COVID-19
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Nutrition in Humanitarian Contexts
WastingCOVID-19Emergency NutritionInfant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)
This document adapts existing guidance on service delivery for the prevention, early detection, and treatment of child wasting in the context of COVID-19.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Global Nutrition Cluster: 2020 Mid-Year Report (Jan-Jun)
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Nutrition in Humanitarian Contexts
WastingEmergency Nutrition
The Global Nutrition Cluster has developed a COVID-19 Coordination Resource Site, a COVID-19 Nutrition in Emergencies Resource Site, and technical briefs, podcasts, and webinars focusing on COVID-19 and nutrition.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Evidence and Guidance Note on the Use of Cash and Voucher Assistance for Nutrition Outcomes in Emergencies
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Nutrition in Humanitarian Contexts
WastingEmergency NutritionFood SecurityMicronutrient InterventionsMaternal Nutrition
Cash and voucher assistance can improve maternal and child nutrition by increasing individuals’ ability to purchase goods and access services. Conditional transfers increase participation in nutrition social behavior change activities and preventive health services.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Resilience of Local Food Systems and Links to Food Security – A Review of Some Important Concepts in the Context of COVID-19 and Other Shocks
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Nutrition in Humanitarian Contexts
COVID-19Food SecurityResilience
Structural issues such as bad roads and limited markets impact geographic and economic isolation, while additional shocks such as COVID-19 have devastating impacts on food security and resilience. It is important to simultaneously focus on the initial impacts of the shock, such as crop destruction and the multiple consequences of COVID-19, and on recovery actions.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Impacts of COVID-19 on Childhood Malnutrition and Nutrition-Related Mortality
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Nutrition in Humanitarian Contexts
WastingCOVID-19Economic GrowthFood SecurityInfant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)
Authors expect COVID-19 to exacerbate all forms of malnutrition, and estimate that people facing acute food insecurity will nearly double to 265 million this year.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Protecting, Promoting and Supporting Breastfeeding: The Baby-Friendly Hospital Initiative for Small, Sick and Preterm Newborns
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Nutrition and Health Systems
BreastfeedingInfant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)
Poor planning for breastfeeding, inconsistent advice, misinformation, lack of knowledge or time, and facility policies impact breastfeeding small, sick, and preterm infants.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Baby-Friendly Hospital Initiative Training Course for Maternity Staff
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Nutrition and Health Systems
Breastfeeding
Many health workers lack training to support women to establish and sustain breastfeeding. This resource provides guidance for leaders to plan a course and select trainers and participants. The trainer's guide contains slides and other materials to facilitate the course, while the participant manual provides worksheets, checklists, and job aids.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Maternal Diets Matter for Children's Dietary Quality: Seasonal Dietary Diversity and Animal-Source Foods Consumption in Rural Timor-Leste
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Nutrition and Health Systems
Maternal NutritionNutrition Sensitive Agriculture
Women's dietary quality and education levels are strong predictors of children's dietary diversity and consumption of animal-source foods, while seasonality impacts diversity and consumption. Production, affordability, and consumption of nutrient‐dense foods require widespread market access and sustained nutrition‐sensitive programs.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Making the Health System Work for the Delivery of Nutrition Interventions
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Nutrition and Health Systems
WastingMicronutrient InterventionsMaternal Nutrition
Successful delivery of nutrition interventions requires a skilled and motivated health workforce, an effective supply chain, demand for services, and access to services. Programs should encourage delivery of nutrition interventions at every client-provider interaction and should actively generate demand for both general and nutrition services.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Barriers and Facilitators to Growth Monitoring and Promotion in Nepal: Household, Health Worker and Female Community Health Volunteer Perceptions
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Nutrition and Health Systems
Growth Monitoring and Promotion
Growth assessment, analysis of growth status, and counseling are important factors in measuring growth monitoring and promotion (GMP). Research finds that providers and beneficiaries view GMP as secondary to curative services. Distance, long lines, and crying children hinder engagement, while provider knowledge, skills, and training are barriers.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
The Sensitivity of Anthropometric Estimates to Errors in the Measurement of Height, Weight, and Age for Children Under Five in Population-Based Surveys
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Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning
Adolescent NutritionInfant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)
Height-for-age (HAZ), weight-for-age (WAZ), and weight-for-height (WHZ) scores for children under 5 years are based on a transformation of height, weight, and age into bivariate relationships.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Nutrition Information Management, Surveillance and Monitoring in the Context of COVID-19 Brief No. 2
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Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning
COVID-19Nutrition Assessment, Counseling, and Support (NACS)
This brief provides recommendations for undertaking a nutrition situation analysis and estimating its magnitude, monitoring impacts of COVID-19, and pursuing alternative data collection strategies. Even once restrictions have been lifted, practitioners should conduct harm-versus-risk analyses to assess the necessity of the data despite health and safety risks.