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Adolescent Nutrition Resource Bank
Maternal, Infant, Young Child and Adolescent Nutrition Action Plan 2020-2025
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Adolescent NutritionInfant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)Maternal Nutrition
This action plan is the Ugandan Ministry of Health's 5-year plan to reduce all forms of malnutrition in mothers, infants, young children, and adolescents. The action plan's objectives include to increase adolescents' access to nutrition-specific services and to strengthen school nutrition programs to promote optimal adolescent nutrition for improved health.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Famine and Food Crises: Urgent and Coordinated Action Needed to Avert Wide-Scale Catastrophe
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Nutrition in Humanitarian Contexts
Emergency NutritionInfant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH)
Coordinated anticipatory action and rapid response must be multi-sectoral and based on early data sharing, joint analyses, and agreed priorities.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Fact Sheet: Biden-Harris Administration Announces Plans for $11 Billion to End Malnutrition at Global Nutrition Summit
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Knowledge Management
Adolescent NutritionBreastfeedingInfant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)
This investment will give governments and communities skills and resources to improve health, diets, and nutrition by supporting communities in crisis with emergency food and nutrition assistance. Greater investment will also help build resilient health systems and sustainable food systems to overcome setbacks posed by the pandemic, the global climate crisis, and recurring conflict.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Health Chat Featuring USAID Chief Nutritionist Shawn Baker
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Knowledge Management
Adolescent NutritionBreastfeedingCOVID-19Emergency NutritionFood SecurityInfant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)Maternal NutritionMicronutrient InterventionsNutrition Sensitive AgriculturePrivate-Sector Engagement
Increased investments to offset the consequences of COVID-19, expand social safety nets, and protect access to nutrition services, nutritious foods, and vitamin and mineral supplementation are critical. USAID’s Shawn Baker discusses the importance of closing financing gaps for private-sector engagement in the nutrition sector, and both stabilizing and reforming food systems for nutrition.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
U.S. Government Global Nutrition Coordination Plan 2021–2026
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Knowledge Management
Adolescent NutritionCOVID-19Food SafetyFood SecurityInfant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)Maternal NutritionMicronutrient Interventions
This interagency effort works to strengthen the impact of diverse nutrition investments across the government through better communication and collaboration and by linking research to program implementation.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
USAID Maternal Nutrition: Preventing Malnutrition in Women and Girls
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Knowledge Management
Adolescent NutritionBreastfeedingFood SecurityInfant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)Maternal Nutrition
Women and girls have unique nutritional requirements throughout the life cycle, especially during adolescence, before and during pregnancy, and while breastfeeding. USAID investments seek to protect nutrition throughout the life cycle to ensure that all women and children are well-nourished and can live healthy and productive lives. This is a video.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Africa Regional Overview of Food Security and Nutrition
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Knowledge Management
COVID-19Food SecurityInfant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)Maternal NutritionMicronutrient Interventions
Increasing numbers of Africans experience hunger and suffer widespread micronutrient deficiencies; overweight and obesity are significant public health concerns as well. A common vision, strong political leadership, and effective cross-sectoral collaboration, are essential to identify and implement sustainable solutions that transform agrifood systems to deliver healthy, affordable diets.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Nurturing Care for Every Newborn: Ensuring Every Newborn Survives and Thrives
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Early Childhood Development
BreastfeedingCOVID-19Infant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH)
The thematic brief introduced outlines the five components of nurturing care and presents practical actions to strengthen nurturing environments for newborns, including those who are born early, small, or ill. It is critical to invest in policies, health systems, and community awareness to provide developmentally supportive care. This is a webinar.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Seen, Counted, Included: Using Data to Shed Light on the Well-Being of Children with Disabilities
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Early Childhood Development
Adolescent NutritionCOVID-19Infant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH)
When absent from official statistics, children and adults with disabilities remain politically and socially invisible, which increases marginalization and potential rights violations.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
COVID-19 and Early Childhood Development in Low- and Middle-Income Countries
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Early Childhood Development
COVID-19Infant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)
Authors describe the nature and scope of existing early childhood development (ECD) evidence related to nurturing care components for young children, including health, nutrition, child protection, opportunities for learning, and responsive caregiving.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Complexity-Aware Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning for Social and Behavior Change Interventions
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Social and Behavior Change and Gender
Infant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)
Contextual, temporal, and interpretive complexities impact most social and behavior change interventions. These complexity-aware tools include an advocacy brief; a core set of indicators related to collaborating, learning, and adapting; and a checklist to improve consistency and completeness of intervention documentation.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Small-Quantity Lipid-Based Nutrient Supplements for the Prevention of Child Malnutrition and Promotion of Healthy Development: Overview of Individual Participant Data Meta-Analysis and Programmatic Implications
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Nutrition in Humanitarian Contexts
Adolescent NutritionInfant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)Micronutrient InterventionsNutrition Assessment, Counseling, and Support (NACS)Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH)
Co-packaging small-quantity lipid-based nutrient supplements with interventions that focus on preventing and controlling prenatal and child infections, improving health care access, and promoting early child development may have a greater impact than interventions alone.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Nutrition Counseling and Care During and After Childhood Illness Literature Review: Evidence from African Countries
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Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning
Infant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)Nutrition Assessment, Counseling, and Support (NACS)
The review proposes recommendations to improve caregiver practices, strengthen the quality of feeding counseling during illness, address evidence gaps related to feeding care during illness, and identify enablers and barriers to those providing optimal feeding counseling and support after illness or during recovery.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Fed to Fail? The Crisis of Children’s Diets in Early Life
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Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning
Adolescent NutritionCOVID-19Infant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)
Policies and programs to improve young children’s diets are not prioritized and are being further eroded by the coronavirus pandemic. UNICEF calls on governments and partners to work collectively to transform food, health, and social protection systems. The report is available in Arabic, English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, and Russian.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Predictors of Complementary Feeding Practices among Children Aged 6–23 Months in Five Countries in the Middle East and North Africa Region
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Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning
Infant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)
Findings showed that maternal education and age, paternal education and wealth, culture and geographic location, and utilization of health services were associated with minimum dietary diversity, minimum meal frequency, and minimum acceptable diet.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Dietary Diversity and Undernutrition in Children Aged 6–23 Months in Sub-Saharan Africa
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Nutrition and Health Systems
Adolescent NutritionInfant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)
Given the role that dietary diversity plays in the health status of children, implementing nutrition-specific interventions and strengthening existing interventions to improve infant and young child feeding practices is particularly important in countries where the prevalence of adequate minimum dietary diversity is low and undernutrition is high.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Beyond Stunting: Complementary Indicators for Monitoring and Evaluating USAID Nutrition Activities
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Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning
Infant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)Maternal Nutrition
Recent literature has critically examined the use of stunting as an indicator for evaluating the impact of nutrition interventions. The guidance document suggests approaches and indicators to measure the results of nutrition programs in a comprehensive and meaningful way.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
U.S. Government Global Food Security Strategy 2022–2026
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Food Systems
Adolescent NutritionCOVID-19Emergency NutritionFood SecurityInfant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)Maternal NutritionNutrition Sensitive AgricultureResilience
This updated strategy responds to the challenges of the moment. Priorities include collaborating with local partners to address challenges to inclusion by intentionally engaging all actors, working to address the effects of climate change on agriculture, and adopting practices to counter the negative impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Approaches to Partnership Measurement: A Landscape Review
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Capacity Strengthening
Adolescent NutritionInfant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)Maternal Nutrition
While calls for partnership measurement are increasing, no standard approaches or indicators exist. This review recommends developing context-specific measurement approaches. To overcome identified challenges, use multiple indicators and mixed-methods approaches to capture complexity, outcome diversity, and the contributions of partnerships to outcomes.
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
Enabling Better Complementary Feeding: Guidance and Workbook
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Improving Women and Children’s Diets in Emergency ContextsSocial and Behavior Change and Gender
Complementary FeedingEarly Childhood DevelopmentInfant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)
Social and behavior change (SBC) is necessary to improve all components of feeding young children: adequate food, adequate services, and adequate feeding practices. This workbook highlights challenges and examples specific to quality SBC for improving complementary feeding.