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Count Me In: Count Me In is SPOON's mHealth App to Promote Nutrition and Safe Feeding for Vulnerable Children
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Complementary FeedingInfant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)
This brief provides an overview of SPOON's Count Me In application, which enables caregivers to screen for and treat nutrition and feeding problems.
Disability Resource Bank
Working with Children with Developmental Disabilities and their Caregivers: A Training Programme for Non-Specialists in Low Resource Settings
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Early Childhood DevelopmentGrowth Monitoring and PromotionInfant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)
This training equips staff with an overview of childhood disabilities; an understanding of how to use daily activities to promote health, development, and well-being; and the skills to use the MAITS Guide for Parents.
Disability Resource Bank
Your Baby's Developmental Milestones
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Early Childhood DevelopmentInfant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)
Caregivers can use "Your Baby's Developmental Milestones" to understand and recognize their child's social, emotional, linguistic, cognitive, and physical milestones in the first 1,000 days.
Disability Resource Bank
Eating and Drinking Ability Classification System (EDACS)
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Early Childhood DevelopmentInfant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)
The EDACS aims to help speech and language therapists and parents to describe five distinct levels of ability of children with Cerebral Palsy using the key features of safety and efficiency.
Disability Resource Bank
Care for Child Development (CCD) Package
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Early Childhood DevelopmentGrowth Monitoring and PromotionInfant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)
The CCD Package guides health workers and other counselors as they help families build stronger relationships with their children and solve problems in caring for them at home.
Disability Resource Bank
Supporting Families for Nurturing Care: Resource Modules for Home Visitors
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Behavior Change for NutritionEarly Childhood DevelopmentInfant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)
This training package contains four modules focused on disability awareness, inclusion, and identification.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
How Can Nutrition Research Better Reflect the Relationship Between Wasting and Stunting in Children? Learnings from the Wasting and Stunting Project
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Nutrition in Humanitarian Contexts
Adolescent NutritionEmergency NutritionFood SecurityGenderGrowth Monitoring and PromotionInfant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH)
Authors discussed how to design and finance research with a wasting and stunting lens to better understand, prevent, and treat child undernutrition. Lessons learned focused on the interactions and relationships between children's weight loss and linear growth faltering, factors driving different types of undernutrition, and the importance of identifying and targeting those most at risk.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Systematic Evidence and Gap Map of Research Linking Food Security and Nutrition to Mental Health
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Food SystemsNutrition and Health Systems
Adolescent NutritionBreastfeedingComplementary FeedingFood SecurityGrowth Monitoring and PromotionHIVInfant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)Maternal NutritionMicronutrient Interventions
The relationship between depression and diets and anthropometry was most common in the literature, while the connection between infant and young child feeding and anxiety, stress, and mental well-being were least studied.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Can Digitally Enabling Community Health and Nutrition Workers Improve Services Delivery to Pregnant Women and Mothers of Infants? Quasi-Experimental Evidence from a National-Scale Nutrition Programme in India
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Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning
Infant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)Maternal NutritionNutrition Assessment, Counseling, and Support (NACS)
Integrating a mobile app with existing services improved timeliness of home visits and appropriate counseling, especially when existing service levels were low, but did not impact infant and young child feeding practices. Digital enhancements can complement but should not replace other efforts to strengthen health systems and address structural barriers.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
USAID Administrator Power on the State of Global Food Security and Nutrition
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Knowledge Management
WastingAdolescent NutritionCOVID-19Emergency NutritionFood SecurityInfant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)Micronutrient InterventionsNutrition Assessment, Counseling, and Support (NACS)
The COVID-19 pandemic, climate change, and conflict have increased the number of acutely food insecure people to historic highs; the war in Ukraine will add to this number, which is projected to reach 323 million people in 2022. USAID, technical experts, and philanthropists pursuing public-private investment discuss steps to combat the worsening crisis. This is a webinar.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
USAID Nutrition Report to Congress FY22
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Knowledge Management
WastingAnemiaBreastfeedingCOVID-19Food SecurityInfant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)Maternal NutritionMicronutrient Interventions
The report discusses country-specific stunting, wasting, anemia, and breastfeeding gains in the face of COVID-19 shocks and the climate crisis.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Mom Knows Best: Equipping Mothers in the Kyrgyz Republic with Nutrition Know-How
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Knowledge Management
Adolescent NutritionBreastfeedingComplementary FeedingCOVID-19Infant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)
Counseling for parents focuses on optimal nutrition for families through breastfeeding and infant and young child feeding practices. Training sessions cover proper breastfeeding posture, frequency of breastfeeding, and good maternal diet to support infant health.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Measuring Dietary Diversity: Evaluating a Novel Cell Phone Method to Extend the Reference Period without Increasing the Cognitive Burden on Respondents in Ethiopia
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Food Systems
Adolescent NutritionInfant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)Maternal Nutrition
Collecting dietary diversity data through high-frequency phone call surveys rather than through a one-time, in-person survey produced a lower household dietary diversity score but a higher women’s dietary diversity score, suggesting that the recall period impacts overreporting and underreporting food consumption.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
The Impact of Climate Change on Food Systems, Diet Quality, Nutrition, and Health Outcomes: A Narrative Review
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Food Systems
COVID-19Food SecurityGenderInfant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)Nutrition Sensitive AgriculturePrivate-Sector EngagementResilience
Sustainable, resilient food systems and climate-smart agriculture are needed to ensure diverse, nutritious diets.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
The Pediatrician’s Role in Supporting Nurturing Care for Early Childhood Development
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Early Childhood Development
BreastfeedingComplementary FeedingFood SecurityInfant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH)
Opportunities to promote early childhood development include ensuring access to good-quality health and nutrition services, making services more supportive of nurturing care, and increasing outreach to families and children with the greatest risk of poor development.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Situational Analysis of Early Childhood Care and Development Services in Ghana
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Early Childhood Development
Growth Monitoring and PromotionInfant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)Nutrition Assessment, Counseling, and Support (NACS)
Recommendations include strengthening responsive care, early learning, safety and security, and counseling and support services.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
How to Engage Men in Nurturing Care across the Life Stages
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Early Childhood Development
GenderInfant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)Maternal Nutrition
This infographic shows how to support men in providing nurturing care from pregnancy to early childhood. It provides a curriculum, guidance, and checklists to train health care providers to increase father engagement.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Rethinking Responsive Feeding: Insights from Bangladesh
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Early Childhood Development
Complementary FeedingInfant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)
Most measures of responsive feeding do not include bidirectional mother-infant responsivity or early learning principles and have not been validated against observations.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Effectiveness of Family-Centered Program for Enhancing Competencies of Responsive Parenting among Caregivers for Early Childhood Development in Rural India
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Early Childhood Development
Adolescent NutritionFood SecurityInfant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)Nutrition Assessment, Counseling, and Support (NACS)
Researchers assessed caregivers’ knowledge and skills about child development and evaluated the effect of an intervention on the home environment, mother-child interactions, and development outcomes in India. Locally adapted curriculum improved competencies and confidence to promote early child development.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Expanding Integrated Competency-Focused Health Worker Curricula for Maternal, Infant, and Young Child Nutrition
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Capacity Strengthening
Infant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)Maternal NutritionMicronutrient InterventionsNutrition Assessment, Counseling, and Support (NACS)
To ensure health workers have the knowledge, skills, and confidence to deliver nutrition services and accurate information, they need evidence-based competency standards; tools for learning, teaching, and assessment; and outcome monitoring.