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A collection of publications, tools, and technical resources from USAID and its projects, including USAID Advancing Nutrition. Go to the Hub ›
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Adolescent Nutrition Resource Bank ›
Anemia Toolkit ›
COVID-19 Nutrition Resources ›
Diet Assessment Decision Tool ›
Enabling Better Complementary Feeding ›
Feeding and Disability Resource Bank ›
Food Systems Toolkit ›
Infant & Young Child Feeding Image Bank ›
Measuring What it Takes to Provide Care ›
Monitoring and Evaluation Online Course Repository ›
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Nutrition Resources and Tools Across the USAID Program Cycle ›
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Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Coordination at the Heart of the SUN Movement in Mali: The Role of Multi-Stakeholder and Multi-Sectoral Platforms
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Capacity Strengthening
Nutrition Sensitive Agriculture
This case study identifies the local definition of multi-stakeholder/multi-sectoral platforms and country-level governance arrangements and structures for them. It discusses key achievements and emerging challenges faced by these platforms and how to sustain progress. This report is available in English and French.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Stronger Food and Nutrition Security Impacts from More Intense Project Participation: Evidence from a Multi-Country Intervention Program
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Capacity Strengthening
GenderNutrition Assessment, Counseling, and Support (NACS)Nutrition Sensitive AgricultureResilienceWater, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH)
Households targeted for programming were more likely to be food secure, targeted women and children were more likely to consume a nutrient-adequate diet, and each additional intervention increased the probability of achieving positive nutrition outcomes. Stakeholders should diversify intervention packages and enable and incentivize beneficiaries to participate in multiple interventions.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Nutrition Capacity Assessment of Agriculture Extension Services in Nigeria
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Capacity Strengthening
Food SafetyNutrition Assessment, Counseling, and Support (NACS)Nutrition Sensitive Agriculture
Deploying agriculture extension agents to deliver nutrition services requires sufficient staffing, better transportation, additional training, and improvements in organizational capacity. It also requires addressing contextual factors, including worker safety. This article is behind a paywall.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
USAID Nawiri Framework
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Knowledge Management
Acute MalnutritionFood SecurityGender
This web-based tool captures key learning from an exploration of local drivers of persistent acute malnutrition and design interventions based on evidence, local context, community strengths and assets, and feasibility for government scale-up.
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
USAID Advancing Nutrition Tanzania Final Report
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Nutrition Sensitive Agriculture
USAID Advancing Nutrition first became active in Tanzania in 2019, fiscal year (FY) 2020. The USAID Mission in Tanzania, in collaboration with the government through the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) and the Tanzania Food and Nutrition Center (TFNC), designed a scope of work for USAID Advancing Nutrition.
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
Niger SBC Strategy
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Adolescent NutritionAnemiaBehavior Change for NutritionComplementary FeedingMaternal NutritionMicronutrient Interventions
From fiscal year 2021, USAID Advancing Nutrition is undertaking an activity to reduce the prevalence of anemia caused by iron deficiency among women of reproductive age and adolescents and vitamin A deficiency (VAD) among children under five in the Resilience in the Sahel Enhanced (RISE) II zones of intervention.
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
Factors Influencing the Use of Iron and Vitamin A Supplementation and Improved Dietary Practices, Formative Research Findings from Maradi and Zinder, Niger
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Anemia
USAID Advancing Nutrition Niger conducted formative research in the Maradi and Zinder regions to better understand factors that support or inhibit the program’s desired objectives: reducing the prevalence of anemia among women of reproductive age (WRA) and adolescents and vitamin A deficiency (VAD) among children under five in the USAID Resilience in the Sahel Enhanced (RISE) II zones of interv
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Understanding Infant and Young Child Feeding Measurement: A Comparative Analysis of Data Collection Methods for Dietary Data Webinar
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Early Childhood Development
Optimal dietary intake is pivotal for children's growth and development.
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In Search of Better Anemia Estimates: USAID Advancing Nutrition’s HEmoglobin MEasurement Project Webinar
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Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning
Estimating the prevalence of anemia in populations depends on accurate and precise measurement of hemoglobin (Hb) concentration from blood samples. The type of blood sample used for Hb measurement - capillary or venous - and the device on which the sample is measured - an autoanalyzer or hemoglobinometer like HemoCue® Hb- can result in different Hb values.
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
USAID Advancing Nutrition Mozambique Final Report
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The Government of the Republic of Mozambique (GRM) has made reducing malnutrition one of its key economic and health priorities. Despite recent decades of impressive economic growth and investments in food security and nutrition, the prevalence of malnutrition has remained high, with 38 percent stunting and 6 percent wasting among children under five years of age (MISAU, INE, and ICFI 2011).
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Virtual Convening on Improving Nutrition among Children with Feeding Difficulties and Children with Disabilities
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Feeding and Disability
Access learning and tools to help improve nutritional care for children with feeding difficulties and children with disabilities.
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
Complementary Feeding in Emergencies Programming in Myanmar: A Case Study Based on the UNICEF Action Framework
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Nutrition in Humanitarian ContextsImproving Women and Children’s Diets in Emergency Contexts
Complementary FeedingEmergency Nutrition
The 2020 UNICEF report titled "Improving Young Children’s Diets during the Complementary Feeding Period" provides an Action Framework to improve the diets of children 6–23 months of age. This report is one of four case studies that use the Action Framework as a tool to examine the efforts in emergency contexts to support complementary feeding.
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
Complementary Feeding in Emergencies Programming in Yemen: A Case Study Based on the UNICEF Action Framework
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Nutrition in Humanitarian Contexts
Complementary FeedingEmergency Nutrition
The 2020 UNICEF report titled "Improving Young Children’s Diets during the Complementary Feeding Period" provides an Action Framework to improve the diets of children 6–23 months of age. This report is one of four case studies that use the Action Framework as a tool to examine the efforts in emergency contexts to support complementary feeding.
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
Exemples de comportements pour améliorer l’agriculture sensible à la nutrition
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Social and Behavior Change and Gender
Behavior Change for Nutrition
Les systèmes alimentaires constituent l’épine dorsale des régimes alimentaires mondiaux. Ce document fournit une liste illustrative de comportements sensibles à la nutrition fondés sur des données probantes afin de susciter des idées et des discussions entre les concepteurs et les responsables de la mise en oeuvre des activités.
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
Nutrition Programs Adapt to COVID-19: Lessons for Future Shocks
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Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning
COVID-19
The coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic has caused unprecedented challenges to public health and disrupted nutrition programs globally. USAID Advancing Nutrition conducted a learning activity to document COVID-19-related adaptations within USAID-funded nutrition investments to identify practices we can share to mitigate current and future challenges to nutrition program implementation.
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
Services de nutrition de première ligne : Rôles, responsabilités et formation initiale
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Capacity Strengthening
Une main-d'oeuvre qualifiée est essentielle pour fournir des services de nutrition en première ligne ou au niveau des soins de santé primaires et, en fin de compte, pour obtenir de meilleurs résultats en matière de santé.
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What Does Nutrition Cost? New Resources in Costing Complex Nutrition Interventions Webinar
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Food Systems
Sustaining multi-sectoral nutrition programs and services depends on nutrition financing. How much does it cost?
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Highlighting the Importance of Caregiver Support to Improve Nutrition and Nurturing Care Behaviors at IMNHC 2023
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Early Childhood Development
Elevating caregiver wellbeing as part of holistic nurturing care and sharing tools to support caregivers in providing optimal newborn nutrition.
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
Factors Influencing Iron and Vitamin A Supplementation and Improved Dietary Practices: Formative Research Findings from Maradi and Zinder, Niger
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Micronutrient Interventions
USAID Advancing Nutrition Niger conducted formative research in the Maradi and Zinder regions to better understand factors that support or inhibit the program’s desired objectives: reducing the prevalence of anemia among women of reproductive age (WRA) and adolescents and vitamin A deficiency (VAD) among children under five in the USAID Resilience in the Sahel Enhanced (RISE) II zones of interv
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
USAID Advancing Nutrition Ghana Integration of Food and Nutrition Security into District Medium-Term Development Plans
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Food Security
Ghana has made some progress towards reducing malnutrition in recent years, but it remains a key development concern and requires a multi-sectoral approach to planning, financing, and coordinating actions to tackle it.