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Zimbabwe HCD: Commitment Card
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The Commitment Card includes guidance for using a commitment card in care group meetings and home visits, an adaptable template for creating a commitment card, and an illustrative commitment card and lead mother monitoring form developed around the Amalima Loko program. The aim of the prototype is to support family engagement and support for recommended behaviors.
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Zimbabwe HCD: Look and Learn Guide
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Look-and-Learn Guide shares tips for preparing lead mothers and facilitating a look-and-learn. During these care group meetings, a hosting lead mother and promoter invite visiting lead mothers to observe a care group session. After the meeting, the lead mothers and promoter debrief to share recommendations and reflections on the session.
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Zimbabwe HCD: Drama Development Guide
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The Drama Development Guide provides two adaptable templates for facilitating the development and optional performance of an original drama based on care group member experiences and priorities. The guide was designed to be used by lead mothers.
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Zimbabwe HCD: Simple Job Aid for Reflections Session
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This job aid for reflection sessions provides an adaptable template for facilitating a care group meeting to reflect on behaviors tried or discussed in the previous module or meeting. The template includes welcome exercises, illustrative discussion prompts, and facilitation tips. It was designed to be used by lead mothers.
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Призыв к действию: Приоритетные Планы Действий На Национальных Уровнях По Итогам Консультации С У Частием Шести Стран
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Capacity Strengthening
Nutrition Assessment, Counseling, and Support (NACS)
Инвестирование в профессиональную подготовку является особенно эффективным и устойчивым подходом к совершенствованию услуг в области питания в широких масштабах.
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Social and Behavior Change Design: Handbook for Resilience Food Security Activities During the Refinement Period
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Nutrition in Humanitarian Contexts
Behavior Change for Nutrition
The purpose of this handbook is to orient Resilience Food Security Activities (RFSA) partners with step-by-step instructions for social and behavior change best practices, providing practical tools for each milestone during the refinement period. Seven milestones are used to organize the best practice instructions and tools in (loosely defined) time periods in the refinement period.
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Technical Brief: Promoting Improved Nutrition through Private Sector Engagement in Assam, India
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Nutrition Sensitive Agriculture
Over the course of USAID Advancing Nutrition’s implementation in Assam, India between 2021 and 2023, the project reflected on the challenges to and opportunities for engagement with private sector and other supporting actors to drive increased agricultural productivity, particularly among female producers, for improved diets.
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Gender Considerations for Nutrition-sensitive Agriculture Programming in Assam, India
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Nutrition Sensitive Agriculture
USAID Advancing Nutrition conducted a gender analysis and social and behavior change (SBC) formative research that illuminated critical barriers impeding women's meaningful participation in and ability to benefit from agriculture and livelihood development activities in Assam, India.
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Report on Dietary Behavior Change Formative Research
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Behavior Change for Nutrition
The results of the formative research presented here correspond to communities in municipalities in western Honduras, where a study was carried out among mothers, fathers and grandmothers in the intervention areas of USAID Advancing Nutrition Honduras, to determine the factors that are influencing eating behaviors.
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Responsive Care and Early Learning (RCEL) Addendum (Resource Collection)
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Behavior Change for NutritionChild NutritionEarly Childhood DevelopmentInfant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)
The foundation of the RCEL Addendum is a set of seven illustrated counseling cards that include key messages and practical tips for counselors to share with caregivers. The counseling cards are complemented by job aids for counselors on topics such as steps for structuring counseling visits and tips to support children with disabilities during counseling sessions.
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Resilience Food Security Activity (RFSA) Resource Collection
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Food SecurityResilienceResilience and Food Security Activity (RFSA)
USAID Advancing Nutrition has developed tools and guidance to support USAID’s Resilience Food Security Activity (RFSA) partners and emergency nutrition partners in strengthening their programming. Created with input from and reviews by RFSA partners, these resources cover a range of topics.
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Emergency Nutrition Resource Collection
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Emergency Nutrition
This resource collection aims to help program managers design and implement more holistic and integrated emergency nutrition programming by improving understanding of a variety of mechanisms including cash and voucher assistance, targeted lipid-based nutrient supplementation, agriculture, social and behavior change, complementary feeding, and wasting management.
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Learning with Care Groups through Participatory Research in Malawi: Prototype—Skills
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This is an adaptable template for facilitating a care group meeting to review and practice key soft skills and technical competencies. The template includes welcome exercises, soft skills and technical competency exercises, illustrative discussion prompts, and facilitation tips. It was designed to be used by care group leaders.
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Learning with Care Groups through Participatory Research in Malawi: Prototype—Look and Learn
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During a look-and-learn, a hosting care group leader and promoter invite visiting care group leaders to observe a care group session. After the meeting, the care group leaders and promoter debrief to share recommendations and reflections on the session. The guide was designed to be used by a hosting care group leader and/or a promoter.
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Learning with Care Groups through Participatory Research in Malawi: Prototype—Community Leader Support
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This guidance is for facilitating a Village Development Committee forum focused on care groups, and guidance and an adaptable tool for Village Leaders to monitor and support care group quality.
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Small-Quantity Lipid-Based Nutrient Supplements: What to Communicate to Program Participants- Annex 1
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Small-Quantity Lipid-Based Nutrient Supplements: What to Communicate to Program Participants - Annex I. Counseling Cards for Adaptation.
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Integrated Nurturing Care Activity to Improve Early Childhood Outcomes in Mozambique: Qualitative Findings Brief
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Early Childhood Development
Early Childhood DevelopmentInfant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)
USAID Advancing Nutrition implemented a mixed-method quasi-experimental evaluation to understand the experience and effects of integrating responsive caregiving and early learning (RCEL) content and supporting and monitoring ECD within a community-led group-based intervention in Mozambique.
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Feasibility and Acceptability of Integrating Responsive Care and Early Learning Counseling with Nutrition Services: Experiences and Learnings from Implementation Research in Ghana and the Kyrgyz Republic
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Early Childhood Development
Early Childhood Development
This report details the process that USAID Advancing Nutrition used to develop, adapt, and test the RCEL Addendum in two settings and the associated findings and lessons on the package’s feasibility and acceptability.
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Evaluation of an Integrated Nurturing Care Activity to Improve Early Childhood Outcomes in Mozambique
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Early Childhood Development
Early Childhood Development
USAID Advancing Nutrition collaborated with Transform Nutrition to study the effect of an integrated program that included responsive care, early learning, nutrition, and sanitation and hygiene activities on early childhood development outcomes in 12 districts in Nampula province, Mozambique.
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Report on Mapping of Sectoral and Multi-Sectoral Coordination Mechanisms for Nutrition in Kisumu County
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Nutrition Sensitive Agriculture
This report examines the existing coordination platforms across the nutrition specific and sensitive sectors to inform alignment of multi-sectoral nutrition in Kisumu County.