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Exclusive Breastfeeding: Measurement to Match the Global Recommendation
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Monitoring, Evaluation, and LearningNutrition and Health Systems
BreastfeedingInfant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)
The World Health Organization (WHO) and United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) recommend exclusive breastfeeding (EBF) for the first 6 months of life. To estimate the proportion of infants that are exclusively breastfed, many agencies use the point prevalence of EBF among infants currently 0–5.9 months of age, as recommended by WHO and UNICEF.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Food Distributions in Myanmar: Responding to the COVID-19 Pandemic and the Coup d’État
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Nutrition in Humanitarian Contexts
Complementary FeedingCOVID-19Emergency NutritionFood SecurityInfant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)Maternal NutritionMicronutrient InterventionsWater, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH)
Working with communities to identify the lowest cost, most nutrient-dense, and culturally acceptable foods will ensure more successful food distribution.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Re-Imagining Technical Assistance for Maternal, Newborn, & Child Health and Health Systems Strengthening
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Nutrition and Health Systems
Adolescent NutritionInfant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)
Stakeholders defined current concerns with technical assistance, identified their root causes, and developed innovative and context-specific solutions. Developing a more collaborative and less dependent relationship between governments and donors and shifting from siloed projects to more holistic and patient-centered work are important.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
How AI Is Transforming Maternal Health Care in Vietnam
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Knowledge ManagementNutrition and Health Systems
Adolescent NutritionAnemiaBehavior Change for NutritionBreastfeedingCOVID-19GenderInfant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)Maternal NutritionNutrition Assessment, Counseling, and Support (NACS)
The Momby app is a virtual assistant that provides nutritional advice and education on fetal development, bonding practices, essential newborn care, and breastfeeding. Users can make health care appointments and ask questions in real time. The app also features a version for fathers.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Child Alert: Severe Wasting
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Nutrition in Humanitarian Contexts
WastingAdolescent NutritionCOVID-19Infant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)
Donors should fully fund the scale-up of early prevention and treatment, provide multi-year funding, and ensure that budgets include ready-to-use therapeutic food allocations. Governments should integrate early prevention and treatment programs into national primary health and nutrition care systems and services—and protect child nutrition investments from budget cuts.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Breastfeeding and Humanitarian Emergencies: The Experiences of Pregnant and Lactating Women during the Earthquake in Abruzzo, Italy
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Nutrition in Humanitarian Contexts
BreastfeedingInfant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)
Findings include the central role of partner and family support, the need for spaces where mothers can share experiences and practices with each other, the lack of breastfeeding support after hospital discharge, and the inappropriate donation and distribution of breastmilk substitutes.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Innovative New App Launched to Train, Support, and Motivate Frontline Nutrition Workers in Gujarat State, India
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Adolescent NutritionAnemiaBreastfeedingInfant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)Maternal NutritionNutrition Assessment, Counseling, and Support (NACS)
The app provides frontline health workers with real-time support to problem-solve, get answers to questions, and participate in trainings. The platform collects feedback on service quality and provides anonymous feedback about supervision. The app collates and analyzes data, which helps government officials monitor program quality and identify performance gaps.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Estimates of a Multidimensional Index of Nurturing Care in the Next 1000 Days of Life for Children in Low-Income and Middle-Income Countries: A Modelling Study
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Early Childhood Development
Infant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)
Most children are not receiving minimally adequate nurturing care. Further investments in indicator measurement and resources for preschool-age children are important, particularly for low-income populations and in the domains of responsive caregiving, early learning, safety, and security. This article is behind a paywall.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Child Diet and Mother–Child Interactions Mediate Intervention Effects on Child Growth and Development
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Early Childhood Development
Infant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)
Child diet and mother–child interactions improved children's cognitive, language, and motor development and had indirect effects on socio-emotional development. Leveraging these interactions may improve intervention effects on child outcomes.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Data for Infant and Young Child Feeding and Minimum Dietary Diversity for Women: Understanding New Guidelines, Evidence, and Survey Tools Webinar
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Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning
Infant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)Maternal Nutrition
Presenters share new global guidance on indicators, their experience with developing and using updated guidelines, pilot results from using these indicators, and country-specific adaptations of questions. This is a webinar.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Diet Assessment Decision Tool
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Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning
Infant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)Maternal Nutrition
The tool helps practitioners better understand dietary patterns and nutrient intake, which are critical to designing, monitoring, and evaluating efforts to improve diets. Diet assessments and related interventions should focus on children 6–23 months of age and pregnant women, as evidence shows these groups are vulnerable to malnutrition.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Health Outcomes Associated with Micronutrient-Fortified Complementary Foods in Infants and Young Children Aged 6–23 Months: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
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Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning
AnemiaComplementary FeedingInfant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)Micronutrient Interventions
Fortified complementary foods are effective in preventing anemia in infants and young children 6–23 months of age in malaria-endemic regions. Researchers should investigate the effects of complementary food fortification globally, including in regions where malaria is not endemic.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Improving Feeding of Young Children during and after Illness: A Behavioral Design Approach
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Social and Behavior Change and Gender
BreastfeedingInfant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)
Several behavioral factors discourage and make caregivers feel powerless against constraints to feeding their children well.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Factors Influencing the Practice of Exclusive Breastfeeding and Other Infant Feeding Practices in the First Six Months of Life in West and Central Africa
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Social and Behavior Change and Gender
BreastfeedingInfant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)
It is important to identify and understand motivations of people who influence infant feeding and care practices as well as factors that facilitate and prevent exclusive breastfeeding when designing interventions. Social and behavior change interventions grounded in this understanding are critical to tailor responses that are respectful, genuine, and acceptable to the families and communities.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
The Impact of Climate Change on Children's Nutritional Status in Coastal Bangladesh
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Nutrition in Humanitarian Contexts
Infant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)
Excess heat at birth had negative effects on the nutritional status of very young children, while humidity had positive effects on children's mid-upper arm circumference. Explanations include consequences of weather fluctuations on the extent of pasture, cropland, and rain-fed lands planted with rice and other crops, and on mother's age at first marriage. This article is behind a paywall.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
How Should We Measure Nutrition Programs' Impact? Considering the Limitations of Stunting as the “Gold Standard” Indicator
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Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning
Infant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)
This report summarizes strengths and limitations of relying on stunting as an indicator of project impact.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Field Exchange: Special Section on WaSt
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Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning
Infant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)
Articles focus on wasting and stunting risk factors among internally displaced people, understanding sex differences in childhood malnutrition, scaling child wasting prevention and treatment in the context of stunting prevention, nutrition impact and positive practices, and promoting linear growth when treating child wasting, among others.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
How Hinga Weze Supported Smallholder Farmers to Improve Crop Productivity, Incomes, and Nutritional Status
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Knowledge Management
Infant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)Maternal NutritionNutrition Sensitive Agriculture
Hinga Weze trained and supported farmers, partnered with financial institutions and business development service providers to create agricultural loan products, created and strengthened solidarity savings groups, and strengthened extension services.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Do Engaging Fathers and Bundling Nutrition and Parenting Interventions Improve Young Child Diets and Development and Promote Gender Equality?
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Early Childhood Development
GenderInfant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH)
Bundled interventions produced greater benefits for child development, child diets, nutrition and parenting practices, and household gender equality than nutrition-only interventions. Engaging couples benefited child diets, maternal and paternal care practices, household gender equality, and women’s empowerment more than interventions for mothers only.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
WHO Recommendations on Maternal and Newborn Care for a Positive Postnatal Experience
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Early Childhood Development
BreastfeedingInfant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)Maternal Nutrition
Recommendations focus on improving the quality of essential, routine postnatal care for women and newborns receiving facility- or community-based care in any resource setting. This report includes accompanying materials.