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Global Food Security Strategy (GFSS) Kenya Country Plan
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Food Systems
Food Security
This plan describes the key drivers of food insecurity, malnutrition, and poverty in Kenya and serves as an overarching framework for integrated food security and nutrition programming.
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
Food Security and Agriculture Core Course
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Food Systems
Food Security
The Global Food Security Strategy (GFSS) calls for expanding work in improving nutrition and resilience. This course underscores the U.S. Agency for Development (USAID) focus on food security development and incorporates USAID’s vision for food security and agriculture development under the GFSS. The course is designed for USAID staff implementing Feed the Future country-level activities.
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
Enhancing Nutrition And Food Security During The First 1,000 Days Through Gender-Sensitive Social And Behavior Change
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Food Systems
Food Security
This technical resource guide, along with the complementary technical brief, is designed to strengthen the capacity of development practitioners working in nutrition and food security to plan, implement, and evaluate gender-sensitive social and behavioral change programming in order to improve nutritional outcomes for pregnant and lactating women and children under 2.
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
Desk Review of Programs Integrating Family Planning with Food Security and Nutrition
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Food Systems
Food Safety
This report synthesizes learnings from 102 health and multisectoral programs, including a rich set of program examples and three case studies, to illustrate the various ways programs are integrating family planning with nutrition and food security interventions.
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
Comparing Household Food Consumption Indicators to Inform Acute Food Insecurity Phase Classification
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Food Systems
Food Security
An important Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) component is the Acute Food Insecurity Reference Table for Household Group Classification (household reference table), which provides qualitative, graduated descriptions of five acute food insecurity phases, along with thresholds for key household-level outcome indicators that can be used to classify the severity of acute food ins
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
Community Mobilization on Food and Nutrition Security: Materials for Community Development Officers and Mobilizers in Uganda
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Food Systems
Food Security
The Food and Nutrition Technical Assistance Project (FANTA) and the Uganda Ministry of Gender, Labour and Social Development worked together to develop a user-friendly package of materials to strengthen the capacity of community development officers and mobilizers to improve food and nutrition security within communities in Uganda.
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Achieving Nutritional Impact and Food Security through Agriculture
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Food Systems
Food Security
This four-page fact sheet summarizes ways that agriculture projects can maximize nutrition and food security for women, children, and other vulnerable groups. It offers examples of what works and what does not and recommends design strategies that can increase nutritional benefits.
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A Guide to Developing a Knowledge Management Strategy for a Food Security and Nutrition Program
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Food Systems
Food Security
The purpose of this guide is to assist teams to develop a knowledge management strategy that focuses on improving performance and the quality of implementation within food security and nutrition programs. The guide aims to provide practical guidance to staff at different levels within development organizations.
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Essential Nutrition Actions and Essential Hygiene Actions Framework
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Food Systems
Nutrition Sensitive Agriculture
The Essential Nutrition Actions framework delivers a set of evidence-based interventions to improve nutritional status during the first 1,000 days, targeting pregnant and lactating women and their young children. The framework defines the right action to be taken by the right person at the right time in the life cycle.
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
Agricultural Market Systems Behavior Change Wheel
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Social and Behavior Change and Gender
The Change Wheel describes behavior change that market actors could progress through in order to become more inclusive.
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
Advanced Workshop on Designing for Behavior Change: Focus on Activities
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Social and Behavior Change and Gender
This 3-day curriculum was developed for experienced Designing for Behavior Change (DBC) practitioners. It emphasizes the important step of designing activities that directly link to the results of formative research. The DBC approach was developed to help designers think more critically when developing and reviewing a behavior change strategy.
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‘Perception matters’: New insights into the subjective dimension of resilience in the context of humanitarian and food security crises
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Food Systems
Emergency NutritionResilience
In this article, the authors investigate the relevance of people’s perceptions about their own ability to handle current and future events (referred to as "subjective resilience") in the context of emerging literature on resilience in relation to humanitarian and food security interventions. They hypothesize that subjective resilience is key in strengthening people’s resilience.
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Feed the Future Learning Agenda Literature Review: Improving Resilience of Vulnerable Populations
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Food Systems
Emergency NutritionResilience
International and humanitarian development actors are increasingly adopting resilience as an organizing concept for food security policy and program development.
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Enhancing Resilience to Severe Droughts: What Works?
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Food Systems
Emergency NutritionResilience
Can investing in resilience mitigate the worst impacts of recurrent humanitarian crises, preserving development gains? To answer this question, Mercy Corps conducted a study in USAID-funded Pastoralist Areas Resilience Improvement through Market Expansion (PRIME) project areas affected by the 2015–2016 El Niño drought in Ethiopia.
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Constant Gardeners: An Impact Assessment of Permagardens in Karamoja, Uganda - A Climate Smart Agriculture Approach
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Food Systems
Nutrition Sensitive Agriculture
This report presents the results of an impact assessment of permagarden activities in Karamoja, Uganda. The aim of the study was to assess whether the permagarden activities strengthened the resilience of households to cope with and recover from food insecurity in the region. The permagarden method combines the concepts of permaculture and bio-intensive agriculture, and uses locally available…
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"Grow Together" Campaign in Cambodia: A Game-changer for Children’s Healthy Growth
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Social and Behavior Change and Gender
Grow Together is a social and behavior change communication campaign strategically designed to reduce stunting in rural Cambodia. The campaign promoted the sustained use of key practices in health and nutrition; water, sanitation, and hygiene; and agriculture.
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Building a Shared Vision for Good Nutrition, Growth, and Development in the Community
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Food Systems
Economic Growth
There is broad agreement that nutrition is a multi-sectoral problem, yet nutrition-related services are often still delivered in sector-specific silos. Recognizing the many factors affecting nutrition, countries around the world have developed multi-sectoral strategies, policies, and plans for addressing malnutrition.
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Giving Children the Best Start in Life: Integrating Nutrition and Early Childhood Development Programming within the First 1,000 Days
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Nutrition and Health Systems
This technical note explores the interaction between nutrition and early childhood development during the first 1,000 days, examines how programs are integrating the two areas, and outlines the potential impact that integrated programs can have on improving a child’s growth and development.
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
Barrier Analysis on Maize Harvest and Post-Harvest Practices
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Food Systems
Nutrition Sensitive Agriculture
This barrier analysis survey aimed to identify what prevents vulnerable families from adopting good agricultural practices in Guatemala, specifically during harvest and post-harvest, to prevent mycotoxins (the toxic chemical produced by fungi) in maize, which has been shown to contribute to stunting in children under 5.
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Integrating Food and Nutrition Security and Early Childhood Development in Community Development Programming: Monitoring and Supervision Tool
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Nutrition and Health Systems
This monitoring and supervision tool was largely developed to monitor the integration of food and nutrition security and early childhood development issues (with an emphasis on communicating and playing with children) into community development programming in Uganda.