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USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
Lipid-Based Nutrient Supplements: Evidence and Program Guidance
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Nutrition in Humanitarian ContextsOptimizing Food Assistance Modalities
Complementary FeedingEmergency NutritionFood SecurityInfant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)Micronutrient InterventionsProgram Design
This brief provides information on how to design small- and medium-quantity lipid-based nutrient supplement (LNS-SQ and LNS-MQ) programs that promote improved nutritional status of women and young children in resource-limited settings.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Exemplars Data Explorer
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Knowledge Management
BreastfeedingHIVInfant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)Micronutrient InterventionsWater, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH)
Users can create and share custom visualizations to interpret data related to stunting and wasting, exclusive breastfeeding, micronutrient supplementation, and other health topics.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
New Tools for High-Quality Nutrition Social and Behavior Change Programming
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WastingInfant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)
These tools help harmonize design, implementation, monitoring, and evaluation of nutrition social and behavior change programs. They emphasize prioritizing behaviors that will impact outcomes, addressing critical factors that influence priority nutrition behaviors, and developing activities with a clear pathway between behaviors, factors, and interventions.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Infant and Young Child Feeding in Emergencies Hub
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Emergency NutritionInfant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)
The IYCFEHub curates resources focused on infant and young child nutrition in emergencies and humanitarian contexts.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Effect of Feeding Practices on Nutritional Status of Infant and Young Children Residing in Urban Slums of Berhampur: A Decision Tree Approach
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WastingBreastfeedingInfant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)
Exclusive breastfeeding (EBF), early initiation of breastfeeding (EIBF), and minimum dietary diversity (MDD) predicted wasting. Stunting predictors included EBF, minimum meal frequency, and MDD, while underweight predictors included EBF, EIBF, and MDD.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Building Better Breastfeeding Counselling Programmes: New Tools for Implementation
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BreastfeedingInfant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)Nutrition Assessment, Counseling, and Support (NACS)
This webinar provides an overview of breastfeeding-related tools, including implementation guidance on counseling women to improve breastfeeding practices; a training course for infant and young child feeding counseling; operational guidance for breastfeeding counseling in emergencies; and an advocacy brief about the role of midwives and nurses in protecting, promoting, and supporting breastfee
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
The View from Development Donor Countries, featuring USAID Chief Nutritionist Shawn Baker
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Adolescent NutritionAnemiaCOVID-19Emergency NutritionInfant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)Maternal NutritionMicronutrient InterventionsNutrition Sensitive AgriculturePrivate-Sector Engagement
While evidence-based solutions exist and progress has been made to improve food systems and nutrition, the pandemic has reduced the delivery of nutrition services and has impacted every system that people rely on for good nutrition.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Advancing Nutrition: The Fight for Health of Children and Mothers in South Kyrgyzstan
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Adolescent NutritionBreastfeedingInfant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)Micronutrient InterventionsWater, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH)
Four in ten children in remote areas of the Kyrgyz Republic are at risk for anemia and less than 20 percent of children ages 6–23 months consume a minimum acceptable diet. This video, which is available in English, Russian, and Kyrgyz, highlights USAID Advancing Nutrition’s work with families in very remote areas.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Responsive Feeding Recommendations: Harmonizing Integration into Dietary Guidelines for Infants and Young Children
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Infant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)
Evidence-based responsive feeding (RF) recommendations should be incorporated into dietary guidance for infant and young child feeding and grounded in responsive parenting and feeding frameworks.
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
Stunting: Considerations for Use as an Indicator in Nutrition Projects
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Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning
Infant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)Maternal Nutrition
This literature review summarizes the strengths and limitations of stunting as an indicator of nutrition interventions’ impact and informed the companion guidance document below, which suggests approaches and indicators for comprehensively and meaningfully measuring the results of nutrition programs.
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
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
This guidance document suggests approaches and indicators for comprehensively and meaningfully measuring the results of nutrition programs.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Getting Food Systems Right from the Start: How They are Failing Young Children and What We Can Do About It?
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Social and Behavior Change and Gender
BreastfeedingInfant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)
Infant and young child feeding practices are normally seen as individual behavior health practices to be protected by health systems interventions. However, globalization of the baby food industry, and the shift of labor and production out of the home, has shaped feeding decisions.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
The Quality of Maternal Nutrition and Infant Feeding Counselling during Antenatal Care in South Asia
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Social and Behavior Change and Gender
BreastfeedingInfant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)Maternal Nutrition
There are evidence gaps about the quality of maternal nutrition and infant feeding counseling during antenatal care and the effectiveness of approaches to improve quality. Research suggests that unequal access to services, limited capacity-strengthening opportunities for frontline workers, and the short duration and frequency of counseling contracts constrain quality.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Breastfeeding Protection, Promotion, and Support in Humanitarian Emergencies: A Systematic Review of Literature
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Nutrition in Humanitarian Contexts
BreastfeedingInfant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)
While Infant and Young Children Feeding in Emergency guidelines outline interventions to protect, promote, and support breastfeeding, these recommendations are rarely applied. Research evaluating the influence of interventions aimed at improving breastfeeding in emergency settings is important to encourage and implement optimal breastfeeding practices. This article is behind a paywall.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
First-Food Systems Transformations and the Ultra-Processing of Infant and Young Child Diets: The Determinants, Dynamics, and Consequences of the Global Rise in Commercial Milk Formula Consumption
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Food Systems
BreastfeedingInfant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)
Increasing formula sales are linked to rising incomes, urbanization, social norms, women's work, medicalization, and the globalization of the industry. Companies use diverse and aggressive marketing techniques to grow their markets, including product diversification, digital marketing, and health professional co-optation.
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
USAID Breastfeeding: Providing a Healthy Start for a Healthy Future
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Early Childhood DevelopmentKnowledge ManagementNutrition and Health SystemsGender Equality and Women’s Empowerment
BreastfeedingEarly Childhood DevelopmentInfant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)Maternal NutritionNutrition Assessment, Counseling, and Support (NACS)
For more than 40 years, the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) has promoted breastfeeding to save lives, prevent malnutrition, and enhance the long-term health and prosperity of women and children. By promoting breastfeeding in programs and policies, USAID is helping families chart productive and prosperous for their children and supporting communities to thrive.
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
Engaging Family Members in Maternal, Infant and Young Child Nutrition Activities in Low‐ and Middle‐Income Countries: A Systematic Scoping Review
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Nutrition and Health SystemsSocial and Behavior Change and Gender
Adolescent NutritionBreastfeedingInfant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)
Recent guidelines recommend involving fathers, grandmothers, and other family members in maternal and child nutrition programs, but there is a gap in understanding on how to implement such interventions.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
The Social Norms Atlas: Understanding Global Social Norms and Related Concepts
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Infant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)Maternal Nutrition
While there is interest and funding to explore how social norms concepts and theory might facilitate social norms change, the success of applying these concepts and theory has been inconsistent. The Social Norms Atlas provides guidance to increase social norms knowledge and strengthen understanding of social norms relevant to particular sectors.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Modality Decision Tool: Nutrition Addendum
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Emergency NutritionFood SecurityInfant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)Maternal NutritionMicronutrient InterventionsResilience
This tool provides guidance for implementing partners to apply a nutrition lens to the selection of appropriate food assistance modalities and presents considerations in alignment with the four Modality Decision Tool concepts of appropriateness, feasibility, objective, and cost.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Maintaining Essential Nutrition Services to Underfive Children in Yemen: A Programmatic Adaptation Amidst the COVID-19 Pandemic
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COVID-19Emergency NutritionInfant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)
The WHO has adapted the services it provides within the nutrition surveillance system (NSS), therapeutic feeding centers (TFC), and isolation units (IU) to respond to the pandemic. The Yemen case study discussed in this article may serve as a roadmap for other countries that intend to undertake similar adaptations.