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USAID Nutrition Resource Hub

Infant and Young Child Feeding Image Bank (Resource Collection)

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Infant and Young Child Feeding Recommendations BreastfeedingInfant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)
The Infant and Young Child Feeding (IYCF) Image Bank is a collection of over 900 images, developed from adaptations of UNICEF’s Community Infant and Young Child Feeding Counselling Package.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review

Accounting for Dietary Deprivations in Rural Africa: Poor Households, Poor Farms, or Poor Food Environments?

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Food Systems Food SecurityFood Systems
This analysis of datasets from rural Nigeria, Ethiopia, and Tanzania produced evidence of the important role of wealth and livestock diversification in reducing dietary deprivation and the strong association of local farming systems with dietary outcomes.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review

Briefing Note: WHO Guideline on the Prevention and Management of Wasting and Nutritional Oedema (Acute Malnutrition) in Infants and Children Under 5 Years

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Nutrition and Health Systems WastingBreastfeeding
Mothers and infants at risk of poor growth and development should be cared for as a unit and breastfeeding support is critical. Not all children with moderate wasting need specially formulated food and programmers should prioritize those who need this support based on certain risk factors.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review

Addressing Overweight and Obesity in LMICs in the Realm of Rural Development and Food Systems

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Food Systems Food Systems
Results from a literature review and five country examples show that most food system-related interventions use traditional approaches such as food package labeling, price manipulation, and changing the food environment but there is a gap in the evidence on what works.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review

Promoting a Continuum of Care for Wasted Children: Lessons Learned from Democratic Republic of Congo Webinar

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Nutrition in Humanitarian Contexts Wasting
Speakers shared learning on coordination and collaboration with the aim of strengthening the continuum of care for the treatment and prevention of wasting in children under five and the ready-to-use therapeutic food supply chain. This is a webinar. It is available in English and French.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review

A Guidance Package for Developing Digital Tracking and Decision-Support Tools for Growth Monitoring and Promotion Services

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Nutrition and Health Systems BreastfeedingComplementary FeedingGrowth Monitoring and PromotionInfant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)
This guidance package facilitates the development of country-specific digital tools for delivery and supervision of growth monitoring and promotion services. It provides recommendations to save time and resources; reduce duplication of effort, errors, and inconsistencies; and ensure fidelity to global guidance.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review

Nutrition and Feeding of Children with Feeding Difficulties and Disabilities: Gaps, Progress, and Opportunities

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Early Childhood Development BreastfeedingChild NutritionInfant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)
This review offers recommendations including strengthening systems to improve identification, early intervention, and inclusion of children with complex needs in primary health care settings; expanding the availability of specialized services; and providing direct support to families to address social determinants that affect nutrition outcomes.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review

Improvement of Community Health Worker Counseling Skills through Early Childhood Development (ECD) Videos, Supervision, and Mentorship: A Mixed Methods Pre-Post Evaluation from Tanzania

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Early Childhood Development Gender
In Tanzania, the use of training videos and greater supervision and mentorship were associated with improvements in community health worker performance in providing nurturing care counseling and engaging fathers, especially in home settings.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review

Strengthening the Capacity of State Committees for Food and Nutrition to Support Enhanced Multi-Sectoral Coordination and Programming

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Capacity Strengthening
This capacity assessment of State Committees for Food and Nutrition suggests several steps for strengthening them, including establishing and supporting functional committees at the local government level, improving resource mobilization, and establishing and improving monitoring and evaluation systems.
Event

Enhancing Food Environment Assessment Tools for LMICs: Lessons from a Pilot Study in Liberia, Honduras, Nigeria, and Timor-Leste Webinar

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Food SystemsMonitoring, Evaluation, and Learning
Food environments play a significant role in shaping food purchasing and consumption behaviors, affecting diets and nutrition.
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub

Building the Competency of Health Professionals in the Kyrgyz Republic for the Baby-Friendly Hospital Initiative

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Nutrition and Health Systems Breastfeeding
This qualitative case study describes the Kyrgyz Republic's experience with health professional competency building related to breastfeeding counselling and support.
Event

Strengthening the Capacity of Local Organizations for Nutrition Outcomes: Local Perspectives and Ways Forward Webinar

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Capacity Strengthening
Local perspectives on localization framed through the learning agenda, with an emphasis on looking to the future of locally-led development and nutrition.
Event

Programming Small-Quantity Lipid-Based Nutrient Supplements: Lessons Learned and Tool to Strengthen Implementation Webinar

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Nutrition in Humanitarian Contexts
Strong evidence shows that preventive small-quantity lipid-based nutrient supplements improve survival, growth, and development of children 6-24 months of age.
Event

The "So What": Leveraging Evaluative Data to Adapt Social and Behavior Change Nutrition Programming Workshop

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Social and Behavior Change and Gender
This workshop aims to provide valuable insights on how to use evaluative social and behavior change data to tackle common issues in program implementation.
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub

Kenya Nutrition Advocacy, Communication, and Social Mobilization Strategy, 2022-2027

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Behavior Change for NutritionChild NutritionCOVID-19Food SystemsGrowth Monitoring and PromotionMaternal NutritionMicronutrient InterventionsNutrition Sensitive AgriculturePrivate-Sector Engagement
The Ministry of Health in collaboration with other Ministries, Departments Agencies, development partners and other key stakeholders have developed the Kenya Nutrition Advocacy, Communication, and Social Mobilisation (ACSM) Strategy (2022–2027).
Adolescent Nutrition Resource Bank

Special Issue "Nutrition Guidelines for Adolescent Growth and Development"

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Adolescent NutritionFood Security
Although adolescence is a nutrition-sensitive phase of growth, nutritional guidelines specifically focusing on this age group are limited, particularly those that focus on nutritional problems related to energy and macronutrient excess and micronutrient deficiencies.
Adolescent Nutrition Resource Bank

Interventions to Improve Dietary Intake Behaviors among Children and Adolescents

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Adolescent Nutrition
This paper utilizes a case study approach to explore the proximate determinants of dietary intake as well as the food behaviors of caregivers, children, and adolescents.
Adolescent Nutrition Resource Bank

Adolescent Health Club Discussion Guide

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Adolescent NutritionReproductive Health
The Liberia Ministry of Health and partners developed this guide for adolescent health education with support from Breakthrough ACTION Liberia. Health club supervisors and peer educators will use this guide in both communities and schools to educate young people aged 13–16 years on sexual and reproductive health.
Adolescent Nutrition Resource Bank

Children's and Adolescents' Characteristics and Interactions with the Food System

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Adolescent NutritionFood Systems
This article describes age-specific characteristics that inform how children and adolescents interact with their food systems and how that relationship influences their diets, using the socio-ecological framework.
Adolescent Nutrition Resource Bank

Conceptual Framework for Food Systems for Children and Adolescents

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Adolescent NutritionFood Systems
The article describes the Innocenti Framework, its purpose, and how it conceptualizes the dynamic linkages between the elements of food systems to highlight the importance of continuously shaping food systems to deliver nutritious, safe, affordable, and sustainable diets to children and adolescents.