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Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Food Insecurity and Malnutrition in West and Central Africa at 10-Year High as Crisis Spreads to Coastal Countries
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Nutrition in Humanitarian Contexts
WastingChild NutritionCOVID-19Emergency NutritionInfant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)Maternal NutritionPrivate-Sector EngagementWater, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH)
Global acute malnutrition is growing due to the unaffordability of a diversified nutritious diet; conflict; population displacement; and reduced access to social services, farming land, and fodder.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
School-Based Health and Nutrition Interventions Addressing Double Burden of Malnutrition and Educational Outcomes of Adolescents in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: A Systematic Review
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Nutrition and Health Systems
Adolescent Nutrition
This review highlights the need for contextually appropriate, integrated, and multi-component school-based interventions to address all forms of malnutrition and improve education outcomes among adolescents.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Achieving Food Security Through a Food Systems Lens
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Food Systems
Food SystemsInfant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)Resilience
This book chapter examines how food security has been framed and addressed historically. The author stresses the importance of a food systems approach to addressing the increasingly complex dynamics that impact food security.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Global Launch of the Nurturing Care Handbook and Practice Guide
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Early Childhood Development
Child NutritionEconomic GrowthInfant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)Maternal Nutrition
The handbook and guide provide practical guidance, training materials, tools, and examples for implementing the Nurturing Care Framework in various settings and strengthen advocacy and capacity strengthening efforts. This is a webinar.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Applying a Systems Thinking Approach to Early Childhood Development
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Early Childhood Development
Child NutritionCOVID-19Infant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)Maternal Nutrition
Speakers discuss how the COVID-19 pandemic, climate change, and other disruptions could prompt innovation and how applying systems thinking could help address longstanding challenges, such as scaling interventions, sustainability, and equity. This is a webinar.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Estimating the Cost and Affordability of Healthy Diets: How Much do Methods Matter?
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Food Systems
Food Systems
While the cost and affordability of a healthy diet (CoAHD) metric is widely used, little is known about the accuracy and sensitivity of CoAHD indicators. Proposed methodological improvements significantly change estimates of healthy diet affordability, indicating the need for further research.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Nutritional Care for Children with Feeding Difficulties and Disabilities: A Scoping Review
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Child Nutrition
Policies, programs, evidence, and funding to support children with feeding difficulties and disabilities and their families are insufficient.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Effects of Engaging Fathers and Bundling Nutrition and Parenting Interventions on Household Gender Equality and Women's Empowerment in Rural Tanzania: Results from EFFECTS, a Five-Arm Cluster-Randomized Controlled Trial
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Early Childhood Development
Child NutritionGenderMaternal Nutrition
Engaging fathers and bundling nutrition and parenting programs impacted gender attitudes, the frequency of communication between parents, and women's dietary diversity.
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
WastingFood 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.
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 NutritionInfant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)
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.