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Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Resources for Community Health Workers: Strengthening Nutrition Counseling through Empathetic Care
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Social and Behavior Change and Gender
Infant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)
This webinar highlights resources developed by Breakthrough ACTION Nigeria using human-centered design to help community health workers improve nutrition counseling. Speakers discuss the Infant and Young Child Feeding Image Bank and how to adapt materials to local contexts and engaged in a question-and-answer session.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Women’s Empowerment: An Essential Ingredient for Improved Nutrition in India
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Social and Behavior Change and Gender
WastingAdolescent NutritionChild NutritionCOVID-19GenderInfant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)Maternal NutritionNutrition Sensitive Agriculture
Participants in this study prioritized joint decision-making between women and men about agriculture-related household assets and women’s use of improved practices to grow nutrient-dense vegetables and fruits or to fish for household consumption and sales.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Opening the Box on How Gender and Intrahousehold Dynamics Affect What South Asia Eats: Why, How, and Who
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Social and Behavior Change and Gender
Food SystemsGender
To better understand why people consume the foods they do, this blog examines issues of food access, availability, and affordability; taste and preferences; power dynamics; and whose preferences matter most. It also examines how food is procured and prepared, the challenges of doing so, who decides why certain foods are consumed, and who performs food-related tasks.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Nourishing Connections: Community Health Worker Job Aid
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Social and Behavior Change and Gender
GenderInfant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)
This booklet provides detailed activities and instructions for community health workers (CHWs) to assess caregiver nutrition knowledge, attitudes, and practices; listen carefully; provide compassionate counseling on child feeding through tailored discussions and problem solving; and develop an action plan.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
The Relationship Between the Gendered Norm of Eating Last and Mental Health of Newly Married Women in Nepal: A Longitudinal Study
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Social and Behavior Change and Gender
Gender
Using women’s eating last as an indicator of women’s status in Nepal, researchers found that women who always ate last had an expected depressive symptom severity greater than women who did not eat last, regardless of household food security status.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Undernourished and Overlooked: A Global Nutrition Crisis in Adolescent Girls and Women
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Nutrition and Health Systems
Adolescent NutritionAnemiaEmergency NutritionGenderInfant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)Maternal NutritionMicronutrient Interventions
This report examines the current status, trends, and inequities in the nutritional status of adolescent girls and women of reproductive age, and the complex cultural, programmatic, and policy barriers they face in accessing nutritious diets, utilizing essential nutrition services, and benefiting from positive nutrition and care practices.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Learning from Health System Actor and Caregiver Experiences in Ghana and Nepal to Strengthen Growth Monitoring and Promotion
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Nutrition and Health Systems
Growth Monitoring and Promotion
Growth monitoring and promotion programs do not always focus on the growth trend for the early detection of growth faltering and preventive actions. Countries should invest in service delivery (e.g., a decision-making algorithm) and demand generation (e.g., integrating this work with responsive care and early learning efforts).
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Complementary and Alternative Metrics for Tracking Population-Level Trends in Child Linear Growth
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Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning
Child NutritionGrowth Monitoring and PromotionInfant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)
Several linear growth metrics derived from anthropometric datasets may be alternatives to or complement stunting prevalence in tracking global progress in child health and nutrition. Further research is critical to explore the real-world use of these metrics.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Antenatal Multiple Micronutrient Supplements Versus Iron-Folic Acid Supplements and Birth Outcomes: Analysis by Gestational Age Assessment Method
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Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning
AnemiaMaternal NutritionMicronutrient Interventions
Trials performing ultrasounds for gestational age assessment found benefits of multiple micronutrient supplements (MMS) on low birthweight, preterm birth, and small for gestational age. These analyses strengthen the evidence for the transition from iron-folic acid supplements to MMS in antenatal care programs.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Coffee and Chai Chat Spotlighting New Global Data and Actions Needed on Hidden Hunger
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Knowledge Management
AnemiaMaternal NutritionMicronutrient Interventions
Experts discuss how to enhance data collection and identify the best sources of information, modeling methods used to derive estimates of micronutrient deficiencies and data gaps, hidden hunger among women, and priorities for action. This is a series of webinars.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Inside Look: How UNICEF is Tackling the Global Nutrition Crisis for Women and Girls
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Knowledge Management
WastingAdolescent NutritionAnemiaCOVID-19Emergency NutritionGenderInfant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)Maternal NutritionMicronutrient Interventions
A UNICEF nutrition specialist discusses breaking the cycle of malnutrition, the importance of addressing dangerous social and gender norms, the role of multiple micronutrient supplements and social protection programs in addressing malnutrition, and how addressing individual nutrition benefits society as a whole.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Building Momentum for Nutrition: Putting Proven Tools to Work
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Knowledge Management
WastingAnemiaBreastfeedingCOVID-19Infant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)Maternal NutritionMicronutrient InterventionsNutrition Assessment, Counseling, and Support (NACS)
This interactive webpage discusses challenges related to addressing nutrition, including COVID-19, climate change, and conflict. It presents cost-effective and evidence-based solutions and tools for ending severe malnutrition, discusses the goals of the Global Malnutrition Prevention and Treatment Act, and highlights USAID MOMENTUM’s work in several countries.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
A Decade of Progress and Action for the Future: Preventing Child and Maternal Deaths, 2023–2030
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Knowledge Management
This report presents successful innovations, lessons learned, and important approaches to build and sustain momentum and global commitment to improve maternal and child survival.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
USAID Agency Learning and Evidence Month 2023
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Food Systems
Food SystemsResilience
Webinar topics include operational effectiveness; resilience to shocks; climate change; addressing corruption, migration, and forced displacement; diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility; affirmative development; locally led development; and partnering for sustainability. This is a series of webinars.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
The State of Food Systems Worldwide: Counting Down to 2030
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Food Systems
Food SystemsResilience
This paper presents the process used to construct the first global food systems baseline to track changes and underscore the importance of food systems-specific monitoring and transformation agendas. While data are available for most domains, off-farm livelihoods, food loss and waste, and governance represent critical data gaps.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Understanding the Relationship between WASH and Malnutrition: Analysis of Anthropometric Data of Children Attending WASH-Supported Schools in Ogun State, Nigeria
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Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning
Child NutritionGrowth Monitoring and PromotionWater, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH)
The intervention group demonstrated lower levels of stunting and underweight but higher levels of wasting in Nigeria. Regardless of water, sanitation, and hygiene programming exposure, underweight, stunting, and wasting were significantly lower among older children. This article is behind a paywall.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Sustainable Aquatic Foods (Sea Vegetables and Bivalves) Toolkits for Chefs, Food Service Professionals, and Healthcare Professionals
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Food Systems
Food Systems
These evidence-based tools and resources support chefs, food service operators, leaders in consumer packaged goods, and nutrition professionals in promoting and marketing bivalves and sea vegetables.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Sustainable Development Outlooks to Subsistent Apiculture in a Transition: The Case of Ethiopia
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Food Systems
Using locally developed top-bar hives rather than traditional beehives increases annual honey production in Ethiopia by 40 percent, but development initiatives continue to overwhelmingly focus on traditional hives. This article is behind a paywall.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Maladaptation in Food Systems and Ways to Avoid it
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Food Systems
Food Systems
The author reviews current literature and examples of outcomes that may increase risk or vulnerability to climate change and discusses prevention strategies.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Impact Evaluation of the SHARPE Programme in Ethiopia: Academic Report
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Nutrition in Humanitarian Contexts
Gender
Robust markets for digital financial services are emerging, but the lowest enrollment rates have been among women and refugees. A randomized trial of the Strengthening Host and Refugee Populations program in Ethiopia encouraged high-volume customers to refer other customers and receive a small bonus for doing so, leading to increased enrollment generally but not among women and refugees.