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.
Inclusive Food System Transformations for Healthy Diets: National Experiences with a Global Challenge
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Food SystemsFood Security
Each country’s food system is unique. Although context-specific approaches are critical to transforming food systems for better nutrition, policymakers and implementers can learn from each other's successes and challenges.
FAO e-Learning Academy: Sustainable Food Value Chains for Nutrition
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Food SystemsNutrition Sensitive Agriculture
This recently released online course on improving nutrition through agriculture and food systems targets implementers and policymakers. It covers the basics of a value chain approach, fundamental entry points and pathways for improving nutrition, and processes for designing activities and interventions.
Food SystemsNutrition and Health SystemsCOVID-19Food SecurityNutrition Sensitive Agriculture
Given a confluence of events—from COVID-19 to the Nutrition Growth Summit—2020 is an ideal time for the international community to make progress toward better nutrition. To mobilize support, the report outlines actions that policymakers and partners can take to reduce the burdens of malnutrition.
WASH, Nutrition and Child Growth: Webinar Series for Implementing Partners
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Early Childhood DevelopmentFood SystemsNutrition and Health SystemsFood SafetyNutrition Sensitive AgricultureWater, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH)
This series of three webinars focuses on the growing body of evidence that persistent exposure to fecal matter causes delays in infant and young child growth and that interventions must go beyond water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) to prevent infection.
The Nurturing Care Framework – The Education and Health Nexus
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Early Childhood DevelopmentNutrition in Humanitarian ContextsNutrition and Health SystemsInfant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)
Panelists from the International Rescue Committee, USAID, and PATH participated in a webinar to explain how their organizations incorporate the Nurturing Care Framework into humanitarian settings, nutrition programs, and the health sector.
The Brain Architects Podcast: COVID-19 Special Edition: A Different World
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Early Childhood DevelopmentCOVID-19
Caregivers and health care workers caring for children through the current pandemic can listen to this series of podcasts on child development for advice and support.
Human Resources and Curricula Content for Early Child Development Implementation: Multicountry Mixed Methods Evaluation
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Early Childhood DevelopmentInfant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)
Researchers evaluated 32 responsive caregiving and early learning projects in 17 low- and middle-income countries on 4 continents to identify human resources and curricula critical for program implementation
Household Food Insecurity and Early Childhood Development: Longitudinal Evidence from Ghana
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Early Childhood DevelopmentFood Security
An analysis of longitudinal information on preschool-age children and their households in Ghana informs this study. Authors focus on the relationship between three levels of food-insecure households and early childhood development domains across three years.
All Children Surviving and Thriving: Re-envisioning UNICEF’s Conceptual Framework of Malnutrition
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Early Childhood DevelopmentNutrition in Humanitarian ContextsWasting
The authors of this commentary propose a revision to UNICEF’s malnutrition conceptual framework, adding responsive care, learning opportunities, and safety and security components to health and nutrition.
Engaging Family Members for Improved Maternal and Child Nutrition in Low- and Middle-Income Countries Webinar
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This webinar shared results of scoping and mixed methods reviews of studies examining behavioral interventions to increase family support for recommended maternal and child nutrition practices in low- and middle-income countries.
USAID Advancing Nutrition, the Agency’s flagship multi-sectoral nutrition project, seeks public comments on our research protocol titled, Laboratory Protocol for Comparative Evaluation of Blood Sampling Methods and Analytical Devices in the Measurement of Hemoglobin in Population Surveys. The public comment period is from June 2, 2020 to September 2, 2020.
Social and Behavior Change and GenderBreastfeedingInfant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)Maternal Nutrition
This user-friendly tool supports project staff, country offices, USAID staff, and Mission staff when designing, implementing, and evaluating social and behavior change programs for multi-sectoral nutrition. The list of prioritized nutrition-specific behaviors cover six critical areas from diet and care during pregnancy to managing diarrhea and wasting.
Defining Social and Behavior Change Competencies for Multi-Sectoral Nutrition: A List for Assessing, Developing, and Evaluating Staff Skills
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Capacity StrengtheningIdentification and Use of Nutrition CompetenciesSocial and Behavior Change and GenderBehavior Change for Nutrition
This tool identifies 52 social and behavior change competencies—knowledge, skills, and attitudes—that project staff must demonstrate to design, implement, and evaluate the SBC components of multi-sectoral nutrition programs.
Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning Expertise on USAID Advancing Nutrition Brochure
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Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning
This two-page brief describes the range of monitoring, evaluation, and learning expertise and tools USAID Advancing Nutrition can offer in support of USAID efforts to collect, use, and adapt data for multi-sectoral nutrition programs.
Lessons from Using Cluster-Randomized Evaluations to Build Evidence on Large-Scale Nutrition Behavior Change Interventions
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Monitoring, Evaluation, and LearningSocial and Behavior Change and Gender
Collaborative program evaluations using randomized controlled trials, among other methods, can provide substantive insight into nutrition behavior change interventions. This paper describes lessons learned from efforts led by the Alive & Thrive global nutrition initiative.
Monitoring, Evaluation, and LearningNutrition and Health SystemsSocial and Behavior Change and Gender
The Social Norms Exploration Tool, also referred to as SNET, is a learning and action tool that helps programs understand a community’s social norms by conducting a social norms exploration.
Social Determinants of Health: Roles of Structure and Agency
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Early Childhood DevelopmentNutrition and Health SystemsSocial and Behavior Change and Gender
This presentation by Dr. Carol Underwood of Johns Hopkins Center for Communication Programs provides a look into the social determinants of health, ranging from economic opportunity to crime rates, and what affects change in those determinants. Dr.
Sick Child Feeding Practice and Associated Factors Among Mothers of Children Less Than 24 Months Old, in Burayu Town, Ethiopia
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Nutrition and Health SystemsSocial and Behavior Change and GenderBreastfeedingInfant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)
It is important to optimize infant and young child feeding (IYCF), especially in the first 2 years of life, if a child is to develop to his or her full potential. Researchers conducted this study to assess IYCF practices among mothers with children under 24 months of age in Burayu Town, Ethiopia.