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Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Affordability of Nutritious Foods for Complementary Feeding
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Infant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)
Inadequate quantity and quality of foods during the complementary feeding period impact growth and development and have immediate and long-term consequences. Affordability assessments indicate that liver, small fish, dark green leafy vegetables, milk, and eggs are the most affordable sources to address nutritional shortfalls.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Influence of Enhanced Nutrition and Psychosocial Stimulation in Early Childhood on Cognitive Functioning and Psychological Well-Being in Guatemalan Adults
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Infant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)
Findings from Guatemala suggest childhood nutritional supplementation and psychosocial stimulation have long-lasting effects on cognitive ability, executive function, and psychological well-being in adults.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Father Involvement in the Care of Children Born Small and Sick in Rwanda: Association with Children's Nutrition and Development
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Infant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)
Paternal involvement in the care of children in rural Rwanda born preterm, low birth weight and/or with hypoxic ischemic encephalopathy is limited. Significant factors associated with father involvement included smaller household size, maternal engagement in decision-making and learning activities, and being on‐track in developmental milestones for problem solving.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Child Health Redesign
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Adolescent NutritionInfant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)Maternal Nutrition
Greater understanding of the interconnectedness of maternal, newborn, child, and adolescent health led the World Health Organization and UNICEF to shift away from an exclusive focus on under-5 survival and toward an integrated ecological life course perspective. Authors call for greater integration of disability in children and adolescents into the global health agenda.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Global IYCF e-Learning Course Reaching Health Workers Around the World
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Infant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)
This free course, based on the World Health Organization’s Combined Course on Growth Assessment and Infant and Young Child Feeding Counselling and supplemental content, has been adapted to deliver an immersive, interactive e-learning opportunity. While participants report that the course is of high quality and enrollments are increasing, few finish the course.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Case Studies Show How Medical Colleges in India Can Improve the Quality of MIYCN Service Delivery
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Infant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)Maternal Nutrition
By revising the undergraduate curriculum and updating service delivery protocols at hospitals, medical colleges are building the capacity of future generations of medical practitioners to deliver evidence-based maternal nutrition and infant and young child nutrition services.
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
Modality Decision Tool: Nutrition Addendum
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Nutrition in Humanitarian ContextsOptimizing Food Assistance Modalities
Emergency NutritionFood AssistanceFood SecurityInfant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)Maternal NutritionMicronutrient Interventions
The Modality Decision Tool (MDT) Nutrition Addendum aids implementing partners to apply a nutrition lens to the selection of appropriate food assistance modalities (cash, vouchers, or in-kind) for the nutritionally vulnerable.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Interventions to Improve Dietary Intake Behaviors among Children and Adolescents
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Adolescent NutritionInfant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)Micronutrient Interventions
The authors explored cultural-ecological factors affecting behavioral interventions to improve diet quality. The results offer insights about facilitators and barriers to uptake of such interventions and highlight implications for planning and monitoring future interventions.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Behavioral Insights into Micronutrient Powder Use for Childhood Anemia in Arequipa, Peru
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Infant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)Micronutrient Interventions
Barriers to using micronutrient powder (MNP) include previous experiences with health care providers, inconvenient access to MNP, and the absence of reminders to provide MNP. Providing culturally relevant messaging and encouraging changes to feeding routines can lower barriers. Health care provider training should encourage positive interpersonal interactions when initiating MNP.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
A Cluster-Randomized Trial to Test Sharing Histories as a Training Method for Community Health Workers in Peru
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WastingInfant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)
The Sharing Histories training method, whereby community health workers (CHWs) recount their own childbearing and childrearing experiences, improved CHW effectiveness with literate mothers in reducing stunting. Stunting among children of illiterate mothers may have involved unaddressed determinants of stunting. The abstract is available in Spanish.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Adolescent Nutrition Resource Bank
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Knowledge Management
Adolescent NutritionFood SafetyFood SecurityInfant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)Nutrition Sensitive Agriculture
The Adolescent Nutrition Resource Bank is a collection of over 150 resources gathered, summarized and presented in a user-friendly online platform.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
A Review of the Humanitarian Nutrition Response in North-East Nigeria
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Emergency NutritionInfant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)
Rapid response to nutrition crises must balance scale-up demands with support for existing systems and capacities. This requires strong coordination to ensure government ownership, prevent duplication of services, improve data quality, and track and forecast supply needs.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
A Review of Nutrition-Related Service Delivery Packages: What They Train Providers to Deliver
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Infant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)
Results of a review by USAID Advancing Nutrition emphasize the importance of promoting responsive caregiving and early learning, and supplementing training to ensure that health workers can tailor counseling to individual breastfeeding challenges, particularly in emergency contexts.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Misalignment of Global COVID-19 Breastfeeding and Newborn Care Guidelines with World Health Organization Recommendations
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BreastfeedingCOVID-19Infant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)
Guidance during the pandemic should weigh risks posed by COVID-19 transmission against the protection provided by skin-to-skin contact, early initiation of breastfeeding, continued breastfeeding, and rooming-in. Recommendations against these practices should not be made without compelling evidence.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Breastfeeding Practices after a Counselling Intervention for Factory Workers in Bangladesh
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BreastfeedingInfant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)
Breastfeeding practices of factory workers in a peer counseling intervention group were significantly better than those in the control group. Factories employing female workers should consider providing skilled community‐based peer counselors to improve infant health outcomes.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
The COVID-19 Infant Feeding Research Interest Group and Working Group Online
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BreastfeedingCOVID-19Infant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)
These multidisciplinary groups of international experts identify and share what research indicates about safe infant feeding practices during the COVID-19 pandemic, as well as pinpointing research needs. Hosted by USAID Advancing Nutrition, the online platform provides recordings of monthly meetings, resource materials, and links to register for meetings and news.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Measuring Malnutrition in All Its Forms: An Update of the Net State of Nutrition Index to Track the Global Burden of Malnutrition at Country Level
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WastingAdolescent NutritionGrowth Monitoring and PromotionInfant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)Maternal NutritionNutrition Assessment, Counseling, and Support (NACS)
Adding female adult overweight and preschooler vitamin A deficiency indicators to the Net State of Nutrition Index captures important dimensions of malnutrition. Including these indicators will help policymakers tailor policies and interventions, track changes in the burden of malnutrition over time, and measure the success of investments and programs.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Introducing a Suite of Low-Burden Diet Quality Indicators That Reflect Healthy Diet Patterns at Population Level
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Growth Monitoring and PromotionInfant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)Maternal NutritionNutrition Assessment, Counseling, and Support (NACS)
Moderate-to-strong associations between food-group scores and 11 global dietary recommendations exist. Food-group consumption data can track progress of countries and populations toward meeting WHO guidance on healthy diets.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Stakeholder Consultation: U.S. Government Global Nutrition Coordination Plan 2.0
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BreastfeedingCOVID-19Infant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)Maternal NutritionMicronutrient Interventions
Priorities include women’s nutrition before and during pregnancy and lactation, breastfeeding and complementary feeding for ages 0–24 months, management of wasting in children under the age of 5, and micronutrient provision. Emerging issues include COVID-19, obesity, climate, and dietary-related noncommunicable diseases.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Nutrition International Learning Resources
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BreastfeedingCOVID-19Infant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)Maternal NutritionMicronutrient InterventionsNutrition Assessment, Counseling, and Support (NACS)
An online repository for research and knowledge products published by Nutrition International, such as scientific articles, guidelines, fact sheets, policy briefs, and online tools.