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Enhancing Food Environment Assessment Tools for LMICs: Lessons from a Pilot Study in Liberia, Honduras, Nigeria, and Timor-Leste Webinar
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Food SystemsMonitoring, Evaluation, and Learning
Food environments play a significant role in shaping food purchasing and consumption behaviors, affecting diets and nutrition.
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
Building the Competency of Health Professionals in the Kyrgyz Republic for the Baby-Friendly Hospital Initiative
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Nutrition and Health Systems
Breastfeeding
This qualitative case study describes the Kyrgyz Republic's experience with health professional competency building related to breastfeeding counselling and support.
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Strengthening the Capacity of Local Organizations for Nutrition Outcomes: Local Perspectives and Ways Forward Webinar
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Capacity Strengthening
Local perspectives on localization framed through the learning agenda, with an emphasis on looking to the future of locally-led development and nutrition.
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Programming Small-Quantity Lipid-Based Nutrient Supplements: Lessons Learned and Tool to Strengthen Implementation Webinar
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Nutrition in Humanitarian Contexts
Strong evidence shows that preventive small-quantity lipid-based nutrient supplements improve survival, growth, and development of children 6-24 months of age.
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The "So What": Leveraging Evaluative Data to Adapt Social and Behavior Change Nutrition Programming Workshop
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Social and Behavior Change and Gender
This workshop aims to provide valuable insights on how to use evaluative social and behavior change data to tackle common issues in program implementation.
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
Kenya Nutrition Advocacy, Communication, and Social Mobilization Strategy, 2022-2027
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Behavior Change for NutritionChild NutritionCOVID-19Food SystemsGrowth Monitoring and PromotionMaternal NutritionMicronutrient InterventionsNutrition Sensitive AgriculturePrivate-Sector Engagement
The Ministry of Health in collaboration with other Ministries, Departments Agencies, development partners and other key stakeholders have developed the Kenya Nutrition Advocacy, Communication, and Social Mobilisation (ACSM) Strategy (2022–2027).
Adolescent Nutrition Resource Bank
Special Issue "Nutrition Guidelines for Adolescent Growth and Development"
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Adolescent NutritionFood Security
Although adolescence is a nutrition-sensitive phase of growth, nutritional guidelines specifically focusing on this age group are limited, particularly those that focus on nutritional problems related to energy and macronutrient excess and micronutrient deficiencies.
Adolescent Nutrition Resource Bank
Adolescent Health Club Discussion Guide
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Adolescent NutritionReproductive Health
The Liberia Ministry of Health and partners developed this guide for adolescent health education with support from Breakthrough ACTION Liberia. Health club supervisors and peer educators will use this guide in both communities and schools to educate young people aged 13–16 years on sexual and reproductive health.
Adolescent Nutrition Resource Bank
Interventions to Improve Dietary Intake Behaviors among Children and Adolescents
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Adolescent Nutrition
This paper utilizes a case study approach to explore the proximate determinants of dietary intake as well as the food behaviors of caregivers, children, and adolescents.
Adolescent Nutrition Resource Bank
Children's and Adolescents' Characteristics and Interactions with the Food System
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Adolescent NutritionFood Systems
This article describes age-specific characteristics that inform how children and adolescents interact with their food systems and how that relationship influences their diets, using the socio-ecological framework.
Adolescent Nutrition Resource Bank
Conceptual Framework for Food Systems for Children and Adolescents
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Adolescent NutritionFood Systems
The article describes the Innocenti Framework, its purpose, and how it conceptualizes the dynamic linkages between the elements of food systems to highlight the importance of continuously shaping food systems to deliver nutritious, safe, affordable, and sustainable diets to children and adolescents.
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Behaviors for Better Complementary Feeding: A Social and Behavior Change Workshop Series
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Social and Behavior Change and Gender
This interactive workshop series brought together implementers to explore nutrition SBC best practices from a new perspective. Participants learned about what nutrition programmers are doing and how to achieve positive complementary feeding results using an evidence-based, behavior-centered approach through storytelling, videos, discussions, and hands-on exercises.
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
Nutrition Coordination Structure For Tanzania 2023
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Brief outlining nutrition coordination structures in Tanzania as defined by the National Multi-sectoral Nutrition Action Plan NMNAPs I (2016–2021) and II (2021–2026). The PMO is mandated to coordinate government business including the work of all ministries, departments, and agencies that are responsible for delivering nutrition-sensitive interventions.
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
Scoping Review: SBC in Protracted Nutrition Emergencies
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Nutrition in Humanitarian ContextsSocial and Behavior Change and Gender
Adolescent NutritionBehavior Change for NutritionInfant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)Maternal NutritionWater, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH)
We identified a range of guidance and standards; toolkits; evidence reviews, briefs, and case studies; and project-specific documents (see the Results and Findings section for document summaries). Project specific documents demonstrated that some implementers are using SBC methods, approaches, and platforms that are similar to nutrition SBC work in recovery or development contexts.
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
Tanzania Resource Mobilization Strategy
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Knowledge Management
Economic GrowthPrivate-Sector Engagement
For the last two decades, Tanzania has significantly improved nutrition outcomes and made noteworthy efforts in integrating nutrition within key national development agendas. In 2016, the government of the United Republic of Tanzania (URT) launched the National Multi-sectoral Nutrition Action Plan (NMNAP) to scale up multi-sectoral nutrition actions.
Anemia Toolkit
Predicted Effects and Cost-Effectiveness of Wheat Flour Fortification for Reducing Micronutrient Deficiencies, Maternal Anemia, and Neural Tube Defects in Yaoundé and Douala, Cameroon
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Anemia
This paper presents estimates of the cost-effectiveness of a mandatory wheat flour fortification program for reducing cases of micronutrient deficiencies of iron, zinc, folate, vitamin B12, anemia and neural tube defects, and disability-adjusted life years in urban Cameroon.
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Overview of the 2023 Joint Malnutrition Estimates and Strengthening Anthropometric Data Collection to Improve Future Estimates Webinar
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Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning
UNICEF, WHO, and the World Bank recently released the 2023 Joint Child Malnutrition Estimates (JME). Generation of the JME can be hampered by poor quality data, which is why the WHO UNICEF Technical Expert Advisory Group on Nutrition Monitoring (TEAM) has established a working group on anthropometry data quality.
Anemia Toolkit
Combined IYCF with Small-Quantity Lipid-Based Nutrient Supplementation is Associated with a Reduction in Anemia but No Changes in Anthropometric Status of Young Children from Katanga Province of the DRC: A Quasi-Experimental Effectiveness Study
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Anemia
This study evaluates the impact of an infant and young child feeding intervention (with small-quantity lipid-based nutrient supplements) on anemia and growth in children aged 6–18 months in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Anemia Toolkit
Accelerating Action to Reduce Anemia: Review of Causes and Risk Factors and Related Data Needs
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Anemia
This narrative review describes the causes and risk factors, and related data needs for reducing anemia for different population subgroups within a country and presents principles for the design and implementation of effective strategies to prevent and treat anemia.
Anemia Toolkit
Diagnosing Anemia: Challenges Selecting Methods, Addressing Underlying Causes, and Implementing Actions at the Public Health Level
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Anemia
This narrative review describes methods, equipment, and sample-related and quality control aspects of hemoglobin measurement for the diagnosis of anemia.