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Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Responsive Care and Early Learning Addendum for IYCF Counseling
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Early Childhood Development
Infant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)Nutrition Assessment, Counseling, and Support (NACS)
The Responsive Care and Early Learning Addendum package includes illustrated counseling cards; training materials; and a guide for planning, adaptation, and implementation. It is designed for use in both individual and group counseling sessions.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Measurement Tools and Indicators for Assessing Nurturing Care for Early Childhood Development: A Scoping Review
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Early Childhood Development
Infant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)
Nurturing care encompasses good health, adequate nutrition, opportunities for early learning, responsive caregiving, and safety and security, but there is insufficient focus on measuring the last three. Additional research is important to establish optimal measures and indicators for assessing nurturing care, especially for early learning and responsive caregiving.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Caregiver Parenting Practices, Dietary Diversity Knowledge, and Association with Early Childhood Development Outcomes among Children Aged 18–29 Months in Zanzibar, Tanzania: A Cross-Sectional Survey
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Early Childhood Development
Infant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)
Researchers found a positive association between the frequency of caregiver-child interactions and knowledge of adequate dietary diversity and early childhood development outcomes. This aligns with global evidence that promoting early stimulation, play and learning opportunities, and dietary diversity can improve developmental outcomes.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Building SBC Capacity Focus of Innovative Blended Learning Program in West and Central Africa
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Capacity Strengthening
BreastfeedingCOVID-19Infant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)Maternal Nutrition
The blended learning program, which aims to build capacity to integrate social and behavior change (SBC) into nutrition programs, includes an online course as well as coaching support and live lectures to increase accountability. Despite occasional connectivity issues and a heavy reading load, participants reported learning practical skills, including developing costed SBC action plans.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Translating Multisectoral Nutrition Policy into Community Practice: Participation of Nutrition Officers in Tanzania Fosters Effective Collaborative Strategies to Improve Child Nutrition
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Capacity StrengtheningNutrition and Health Systems
Adolescent NutritionInfant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)
Multidisciplinary action teams bridged communication gaps between administrators and implementers; made progress on advocacy, collaboration, and budgeting for nutrition; and initiated multi-sectoral nutrition (MSN) program implementation in communities. Teams provided actionable guidance for putting MSN policy into practice and leveraging staff capacity.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Nutrition and Climate Change—Current State of Play: Scoping Review
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Nutrition in Humanitarian Contexts
Child NutritionInfant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)Maternal Nutrition
Complex, multi-directional pathways link nutrition and climate change. It is critical for sectors to work together and develop more holistic systematic approaches to address the threats of climate change to healthy and sustainable diets for populations vulnerable to undernutrition and crises.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Strategies for Infant and Young Child Feeding in Climate-Related Emergencies
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Nutrition in Humanitarian Contexts
Food SafetyInfant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)Maternal Nutrition
Experts discuss policies that support women by protecting families from predatory marketing and providing skilled breastfeeding support. They highlight case studies of disaster preparedness that focus on infant feeding safety and discuss strategies to protect and support maternal, infant, and young child nutrition. This is a webinar.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Improving Treatment of Wasting in Children through iCCM
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Nutrition and Health Systems
Infant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)
Speakers share policy, programmatic, and operational learnings from integrating community-based management of acute malnutrition with integrated community case management. This is a webinar and slide deck presentation.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Global Challenges Mean That Advancing Nutrition is More Important than Ever
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Knowledge Management
Adolescent NutritionCOVID-19Emergency NutritionInfant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)Maternal NutritionMicronutrient Interventions
The global nutrition community saw the COVID-19 pandemic as a rallying call and galvanized support to prevent backsliding and improve nutrition around the world.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Marketing the US$ 55 Billion Formula Milk Industry
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Social and Behavior Change and Gender
Infant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)
Aggressive marketing practices used by the formula milk industry impact families’ decisions about how to feed their babies and young children. The webinar launching the report is available in Arabic, English, French, Portuguese, Russian, and Spanish.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Focusing on Social Norms: A Practical Guide for Nutrition Programmers to Improve Women’s and Children’s Diets
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Social and Behavior Change and Gender
Infant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)Maternal Nutrition
This guide is for program planners and implementers developing norms-responsive activities within nutrition-sensitive or nutrition-specific programming. It includes tips and tools to improve program outcomes by understanding and responding to social norms and incorporates background on how to identify norms and monitor and measure change.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Maternal and Paternal Involvement in Complementary Feeding in Kaduna State, Nigeria: The Continuum of Gender Roles in Urban and Rural Settings
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Social and Behavior Change and Gender
Complementary FeedingGenderInfant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)
Household gender roles influence infant and young child feeding behaviors and may contribute to suboptimal complementary feeding practices through inequitable household decision making, intra-household food allocation, and limited paternal support for resources and caregiving, especially in rural areas.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Child Nutrition in Disaster: A Scoping Review
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Nutrition in Humanitarian Contexts
Adolescent NutritionBreastfeedingEmergency NutritionFood SecurityInfant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)Micronutrient Interventions
To ensure that children receive nutrition support in disaster to prevent malnutrition, this study recommends an explicit and well-coordinated approach that includes preparedness; advocacy; policy development; periodic nutritional assessments and nutritional support; and nutrition education for children, families, and aid workers.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Health and Nutrition Research and Evidence Digest
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Nutrition and Health Systems
COVID-19Emergency NutritionInfant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH)
This edition presents evaluations from various projects, including a nutrition project in Ethiopia, a maternal and child health project in Sri Lanka, and a family planning project in Democratic Republic of the Congo and Somalia.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Q&A: The Manufacture of Breastmilk Substitute Products is Pumping Tons of CO2 into the Atmosphere
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Food Systems
BreastfeedingEmergency NutritionInfant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)
The speaker discusses the environmental impacts of breastmilk substitutes and the need for governments to regulate misleading marketing messages, provide sufficient paid leave, and ensure better maternity care to support breastfeeding.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Decisions to Start, Strengthen, and Sustain Food Fortification Programs: An Application of the Grading of Recommendations Assessment, Development, and Evaluation (GRADE) Evidence to Decision (EtD) Framework in Nigeria
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Food Systems
Infant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)Micronutrient Interventions
Gaps in program design and implementation constrain the impact of food fortification. Using the GRADE EtD framework can strengthen the decision-making processes for health systems and public health, as well as improve program design, delivery, and health impacts.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Assessing the Nurturing Care Content of UNICEF's Community-Infant and Young Child Feeding Counselling Package: Gaps, Best Practices, and Lessons Learned
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Early Childhood Development
Infant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)
Country-level best practices can address nurturing care elements missing from the generic UNICEF Community-Infant and Young Child Feeding Counseling Package. Sharing these practices will help countries prioritize context-driven, evidence-informed decisions.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Exchangeable Zinc Pool Size Reflects Form of Zinc Supplementation in Young Children and Is Not Associated with Markers of Inflammation
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Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning
Adolescent NutritionInfant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)Micronutrient Interventions
Researchers commonly use serum or plasma zinc and proxy indicators to assess zinc status, but each has limitations. Longitudinal zinc supplementation affected exchangeable zinc pool (EZP) size and reflected the expected difference in bioavailability for two forms of supplementation.
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
Guide du programme : Impliquer les membres de la famille dans l’amélioration de la nutrition maternelle et infantile
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Social and Behavior Change and GenderGender Equality and Women’s Empowerment
Infant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)Maternal Nutrition
Le présent guide traduit les résultats de la recherche en recommandations pratiques pour des interventions qui impliquent effcacement les membres de la famille dans les soins et l’alimentation des enfants.
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
Focusing on Social Norms: A Practical Guide for Nutrition Programmers to Improve Women’s and Children’s Diets
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Social and Behavior Change and Gender
Behavior Change for NutritionComplementary FeedingInfant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)Maternal Nutrition
Social norms influence the meaning and value of food as well as roles and expectations. Updated in 2023 after user testing, this guide is for nutrition program planners and implementers planning norm-responsive activities within nutrition-sensitive or nutrition-specific programming.