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Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
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Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
ENN's Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Programme Case Studies
Knowledge Management
The Emergency Nutrition Network conducted case studies of three “high achieving” SUN countries (Bangladesh, Ethiopia, and Niger) with a strong track record in championing and improving undernutrition at a sub-national level.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Economic Evaluation of Multisectoral Actions for Health and Nutrition
Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning
Economic evaluations and metrics related to the costs and benefits of agriculture, food, and livelihood strategies can be highly complex. To bolster understanding of these evaluations, the Agriculture, Nutrition & Health Academy published this technical brief, which discusses economic evaluation typologies, existing economic evaluation guidelines, and the challenges and complexity of cost-…
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
DataDENT Indicator Mapping Technical Brief
Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning
A landscape assessment of nutrition data visualization tools by DataDENT (Data for Decisions to Expand Nutrition Transformation) found that these tools often report on various indicators without uniform definitions.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Capturing Cost Data: A First-mile Problem
Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning
In this blog post, economist Alaka Holla walks through the preliminary considerations and challenges of collecting cost data.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Linking Climate Change, Gender and Nutrition: Approaches, Highlights and the Way Forward
Food Systems
In this webinar, speakers from the Gender, Climate Change and Nutrition Integration Initiative and the USAID Bureau for Food Security discussed how to integrate resilience, gender, and nutrition into program interventions to maximize development impact.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Supporting Nutrition-Sensitive Agriculture through Neglected and Underutilized Species—Operational Framework
Food Systems
In this report, Investing in Rural People and Biodiversity International provides an operational framework to help Investing in Rural People project development teams integrate neglected and underutilized species into their activities.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Trade, Nutrition, and Sustainable Food Systems
Food Systems
This paper identifies three key starting points to make progress toward this goal: 1) the public health sector should acknowledge that because trade has the potential to enhance as well as hinder health outcomes, it deserves further attention; 2) public health actors need to be better prepared with the right language to push for better policy; and 3) public health actors need to frame nutrition…
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
The Relative Caloric Prices of Healthy and Unhealthy Foods Differ Systematically across Income Levels and Continents
Food Systems
This paper aims to quantify the link between price and dietary indicators and nutrition outcomes. Pulling from existing databases, it determines the relative caloric prices for foods across different categories, such as animal source foods and starchy staples, in 176 countries.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
The Effect of Food Price Changes on Consumer Purchases: A Randomised Experiment
Food Systems
This study used a virtual supermarket to emulate different food price and subsidy scenarios and determine the effect of price changes on the consumer's total food basket.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Field Exchange Special Issue on the Continuum of Care for Acute Malnutrition
Nutrition in Humanitarian ContextsNutrition and Health Systems
This special edition takes stock of current acute malnutrition programming efforts, including successes and ongoing challenges, through a curated summary of 8 field articles, 19 research studies, and 1 evaluation.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Spatial Typology for Targeted Food and Nutrition Security Intervention
Nutrition in Humanitarian Contexts
This study describes a typology to help programmers identify food security priority areas and target interventions using limited data.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Leveraging Human Nutrition through Livestock Interventions: Perceptions, Knowledge, Barriers and Opportunities in the Sahel
Nutrition in Humanitarian Contexts
This paper asserts that limited animal source food interventions are incorporated into development programming, using USAID Feed the Future initiatives as an example.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Effects of Microbiota-directed Foods in Gnotobiotic Animals and Undernourished Children
Nutrition in Humanitarian Contexts
This paper examines the links among therapeutic diets, microbiota development, and the growth recovery of children in Bangladesh.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
The Science Behind the First 1,000 Days: Linking Nutrition, Brain Development, and Nurturing Care
Early Childhood Development
In this webinar, Dr. Sarah Cusick, Assistant Professor in the Department of Pediatrics at the University of Minnesota, provided an overview of how nutrient deficiency in the first 1,000 days can lead to long-term dysfunction and how application of the general principles of nutrient and brain interaction can help inform programming.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Nurturing Care Framework for Early Childhood Development: Dissemination and Uptake Since May 2018
Early Childhood Development
One year after WHO, UNICEF, the World Bank, and partners launched the Nurturing Care Framework, they published this report on efforts by countries around the world to adopt it.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Nutrition, Hygiene and Stimulation Education for Impoverished Mothers in Rural Uganda: Effect on Maternal Depression Symptoms and Their Associations to Child Development Outcomes
Early Childhood Development
Maternal depression is linked to poor developmental outcomes in young children.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Improving Parenting Practices and Development for Young Children in Rwanda: Results from a Randomized Control Trial
Early Childhood Development
The first years of life have long-term impacts on children’s development across language, cognitive, social-emotional, and motor domains, yet evidence on critical parent-young child interactions in low-income settings is scarce.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Early Childhood Development and Stunting: Findings from the MAL-ED Birth Cohort Study in Bangladesh
Early Childhood Development
A recent study in Bangladesh, where 36 percent of under‐5 children are stunted, explored the differences in child development between non-stunted and stunted.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
The Continental Nutrition Accountability Scorecard: A Call for Better Advocacy and Accountability for Nutrition Investments in Africa
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Knowledge Management
GenderMicronutrient Interventions
Recommendations to tackle malnutrition in all its forms include increasing budgetary allocations for multi-sectoral nutrition plans, enforcing compliance with mandatory food fortification legislation, increasing women’s and girls’ empowerment, and ensuring timely collection of high-quality data.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Integrating Nutrition Services into Health Care Systems Platforms: Where are We and Where Do We Go from Here
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Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning
Food Systems
Papers explore barriers and facilitators to integrating maternal and child nutrition into health care services. Addressing financing, health information systems, health workforce, supplies and technology, governance, and service delivery issues are as critical as engaging in robust implementation science research.