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Optimizing Diets by Using Local Foods for Improved Nutrition for Women and Children
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USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
India SBC Rapid Assessment
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Social and Behavior Change and Gender
Behavior Change for NutritionCOVID-19Economic GrowthGenderMaternal Nutrition
USAID Advancing Nutrition conducted social and behavior change (SBC) formative research in the three intervention districts of Tinsukia, Goalpara, and Barpeta in Assam to inform the project’s SBC activities.
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Elevating Nutrition in Pre-Service Training: A Competency-Based Tool to Assess Coverage of Nutrition Content Webinar
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Capacity StrengtheningIdentification and Use of Nutrition Competencies
Quality pre-service training forms the foundation of all nutrition services, equipping health professionals with the competencies required to deliver quality services from day one on the job. However, nutrition content is often outdated and can be difficult to integrate into pre-service training.
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Strategies, Standards, and Regulations to Increase Access to Safe and Nutritious Foods Webinar
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Food Systems
Raising awareness of and promoting the adoption and enforcement of food safety standards requires government agencies to collaborate closely.
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
Nurturing Young Children through Responsive Feeding
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Early Childhood DevelopmentResponsive Care and Early Learning Addendum for IYCF Counseling
Child NutritionComplementary FeedingEarly Childhood Development
This brief explains what is meant by responsive feeding and how to create the enabling environments for caregivers to responsively feed their young children.
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
M&E Online Course Repository (Resource Collection)
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Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning
Many Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning (MEL) courses, developed by USAID and other organizations, are available to USAID Mission and project staff. The resources in this online M&E Course Repository, will help meet your current needs.
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
Measuring What it Takes to Provide Care (Resource Collection)
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Social and Behavior Change and Gender
Adolescent NutritionChild NutritionInfant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)Mental Health
This toolkit presents measures of caregiver resources that are relevant to the care of young children and nutrition outcomes. These include mental health, healthy stress levels, perceived physical health, safety and security, equitable gender attitudes, self-efficacy, social support, and time sufficiency.
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
Food Systems Toolkit (Resource Collection)
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Food Systems
Food SystemsWater, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH)
USAID and USAID Advancing Nutrition curated the Food Systems Toolkit which is focused on a set of tools to support USAID Missions and partners in putting a food systems approach into action. The toolkit comprises resources that provide practical guidance on how to design, implement, and measure concrete activities that improve diets and nutrition through food systems.
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
Diet Assessment Decision Tool (Resource Collection)
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Diet Quality Measurement
Food Systems
This tool makes it easier for practitioners and decision makers to understand dietary patterns and nutrient intake. Such information is critical to design, monitor, and evaluate efforts to improve diets. The decision tool provides existing data sources and data collection tools related to the different target groups and diet questions below.
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
Anemia Toolkit (Resource Collection)
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Micronutrient Measurement
Anemia
Anemia is a global public health problem imposing a health burden on individuals at different life stages. This searchable toolkit includes over 100 resources organized into five sections related to anemia—
Biology
Assessment
Interventions
Policies and Programs
Anemia Landscape
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
Adolescent Nutrition Resource Bank (Resource Collection)
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Adolescent Nutrition
Adolescent Nutrition
Adolescence is a critical time in the life cycle, presenting what is sometimes called a "second window of opportunity" in an individual’s growth and development.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Intrahousehold Power Inequalities and Cooperation: Unpacking Household Responses to Nutrition-Sensitive Agriculture Interventions in Rural India
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Social and Behavior Change and Gender
GenderNutrition Sensitive Agriculture
Higher levels of household cooperation within the family and women's relative power may influence children’s and mothers’ dietary diversity in Odisha and increase the impact of nutrition-sensitive agriculture interventions. Further research should investigate constraints that families face and how interventions can respond to heterogeneity in household dynamics.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
The Volume and Monetary Value of Human Milk Produced by the World's Breastfeeding Mothers: Results from a New Tool
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Nutrition and Health Systems
Breastfeeding
The Mothers’ Milk Tool enumerates the economic risk of not protecting, promoting, and supporting women’s capacity for breastfeeding and encourages countries to consider breastfeeding in food balance sheets and economic production statistics.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Measurement of Diets That Are Healthy, Environmentally Sustainable, Affordable, and Equitable: A Scoping Review of Metrics, Findings, and Research Gaps
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Food Systems
Food Systems
Researchers recommend using indicators and metrics that link social and economic issues to more commonly assessed diet-climate-planetary ecology relationships and integrating processed food products in analyses to better reflect consumer choices.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
The Effect of Interventions Distributing Home Fortification Products on Infant and Young Child Feeding (IYCF) Practices: A Systematic Narrative Review
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Nutrition and Health Systems
BreastfeedingInfant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)Micronutrient InterventionsNutrition Assessment, Counseling, and Support (NACS)
Small-quantity lipid-based nutrient supplements and micronutrient powders can address nutrient gaps for young children in low-resource settings. Programs that combine home fortification products with infant and young child feeding (IYCF) interventions may also contribute to improved IYCF practices in some settings.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Anthropometric Criteria for Best-Identifying Children at High Risk of Mortality: A Pooled Analysis of Twelve Cohorts
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Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning
WastingChild NutritionGrowth Monitoring and PromotionInfant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)
Researchers compared several anthropometric diagnostic criteria to assess risk of child mortality. The best indicators were weight-for-age Z-score (WAZ) <−2, mid-upper arm circumference (MUAC) <125 mm, MUAC < 115 mm or WAZ < −3, and WAZ < −3.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of the Prevalence of Childhood Undernutrition in North Africa
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Nutrition in Humanitarian Contexts
Child Nutrition
Stunting and wasting was particularly widespread in Sudan, Egypt, Libya, and Morocco while underweight was highest in Sudan.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Children’s and Adolescents’ Rising Animal-Source Food Intakes in 1990–2018 Were Impacted by Age, Region, Parental Education, and Urbanicity
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Food Systems
Adolescent NutritionChild NutritionFood SystemsGender
Data from 185 countries indicated that mean animal-source foods (ASF) intake was 1.9 servings per day. Intake was similar between boys and girls but higher among urban children with educated parents. Consumption varied by age from 0.6 servings for children under age 1 to 2.5 servings per day for those ages 15–19.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
The Effects of Multiple Micronutrient Fortified Beverage and Responsive Caregiving Interventions on Early Childhood Development, Hemoglobin, and Ferritin among Infants in Rural Guatemala
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Early Childhood Development
AnemiaInfant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)Micronutrient Interventions
In an area of Guatemala with high rates of anemia and iron deficiency, a multiple micronutrient-fortified beverage improved infants’ socioemotional development. There were no intervention effects on other measures of child development, hemoglobin, or ferritin.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Targeted and Innovative Support is Helping Locally Elected Representatives in India Ensure Families Receive Support to Improve Nutrition Outcomes
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Capacity Strengthening
AnemiaGenderMaternal NutritionMicronutrient InterventionsWater, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH)
A new app helps locally elected officials understand the concept of optimal nutrition, learn about public welfare services, understand their role in ensuring that every household can access them, and conduct effective Village Health, Sanitation, and Nutrition Committee meetings.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Virtual Convening on Improving Nutrition among Children with Feeding Difficulties and Children with Disabilities
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Early Childhood Development
Infant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)Nutrition Assessment, Counseling, and Support (NACS)
This convening engaged experts working in nutrition, health, and disability programming; policy making and advocacy; and research in discussions around opportunities to improve nutritional care for children with feeding difficulties and children with disabilities.