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Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Nurturing Care for Children with Developmental Delays and Disabilities
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COVID-19Infant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)
This webinar discusses challenges in serving children who have developmental delays and disabilities; presents emerging research; and highlights early identification, capacity building, public awareness, and psychosocial rehabilitation projects. This is a webinar.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Harnessing Global Data for Young Children
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COVID-19Infant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)
Researchers, implementers, and civil society actors discuss challenges in measuring participation in pre-primary education, how to use data to advance human rights law for young children, the economic costs of pre-school closures due to COVID-19, and the need for better global data across the period of child development. This is a webinar.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Group-Based Parenting Interventions to Promote Child Development in Rural Kenya: A Multi-Arm, Cluster-Randomised Community Effectiveness Trial
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Infant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)
An integrated child development intervention delivered to mother-child groups by trained community health workers improves cognitive, receptive language, and socioemotional development.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
A Complementary Feeding and Play Intervention Improves the Home Environment and Mental Development among Toddlers in Rural India
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Infant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)
A responsive complementary feeding and play intervention delivered through home visits benefits children's mental development and the caregiving environment. Mothers with a high school education can deliver behavior change communication if trained and supervised.
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
USAID Advancing Nutrition Kyrgyz Republic Fact Sheet
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Capacity Strengthening
Infant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)Maternal Nutrition
Malnutrition among children and women in the Kyrgyz Republic is an urgent problem with negative long-term consequences for socio-economic Development.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Program Guidance Engaging Family Members in Improving Maternal and Child Nutrition
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Social and Behavior Change and Gender
Infant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)Maternal Nutrition
Due to their influence on decision-making, there is a strong case for engaging fathers, grandparents, and other key family members in maternal and child nutrition programs. Their involvement increases awareness of recommended practices and can increase supportive attitudes and behaviors including exclusive breastfeeding and complementary feeding practices.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Counseling Is a Relationship Not Just a Skill: Re-Conceptualizing Health Behavior Change Communication by India’s Accredited Social Health Activists
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Social and Behavior Change and Gender
Infant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)
The ability of accredited social health activists to improve health outcomes depends on their relationships with families and the support from the health system. Training to improve interpersonal communication and develop strong relationships with community members will improve their efficacy as health behavior change communicators.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Bringing Greater Precision to Interactions between Community Health Workers and Households to Improve Maternal and Newborn Health Outcomes in India
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Social and Behavior Change and Gender
BreastfeedingInfant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)Maternal Nutrition
Community health worker (CHW) presence, number, and timing of visits, counseling, and behavior change messaging strategies, and focus on specific household members are associated with recommended maternal and newborn care practices, including early initiation of and exclusive breastfeeding.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Experiences of the Integrated Management of Acute Malnutrition (IMAM) Programme in Nepal: From Pilot to Scale Up
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Nutrition in Humanitarian Contexts
WastingEmergency NutritionInfant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)Maternal Nutrition
This program addresses severe wasting in the context of humanitarian crises. Sustainability relies on a government-owned and -managed approach, a strong policy framework, national and devolved governance architecture, commitment and dedicated financing, and services integrated within a well-developed community health system and delivered by skilled government health workers.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Improving Nutritional Status among Urban Poor Children in Sub-Saharan Africa: An Evidence-Informed Delphi-Based Consultation
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Nutrition in Humanitarian Contexts
Infant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)
Little is known about how urbanization influences infant and young child (IYC) feeding practices, and evidence-based interventions to improve IYC health/nutrition among the urban poor are lacking. To maximize effectiveness, future complementary feeding interventions should include an assessment of diet quality and consider nutrition-sensitive factors during development and evaluation.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Fortified Blended Flour Supplements Displace Plain Cereals in Feeding of Young Children
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Nutrition in Humanitarian Contexts
BreastfeedingInfant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)
Lipid-based nutritional supplements and fortified blended flours are widely used to increase nutrient density of children's diets and improve health. Due to their small stomach size and rapid growth velocity, infants need higher nutrient density foods than do other family members.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Field Exchange 63
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Nutrition and Health Systems
WastingAdolescent NutritionInfant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)Micronutrient Interventions
The articles in this South Asia edition focus on integrating nutrition interventions into primary health care to prevent and treat wasting, integrating management of children with acute malnutrition in pediatric inpatient facilities, supporting healthy growth in infants in low-resource settings, integrating screening for acute malnutrition into the vitamin A supplementation campaign in the Rohi
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
DHS Survey Design: Modules (FAQ)
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Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning
Growth Monitoring and PromotionInfant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)Nutrition Assessment, Counseling, and Support (NACS)
Several topic-specific questionnaire modules can be added to the standard DHS questionnaire modules. These include those focusing on accident and injury, adult and maternal mortality, disability, domestic violence, female genital cutting, fistula, the food insecurity experience scale, newborn care, non-communicable diseases, out-of-pocket health expenditures, and maternal health care.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Catch-up Growth is a Better Indicator of Undernutrition than Thresholds for Stunting
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Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning
Growth Monitoring and PromotionInfant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)Nutrition Assessment, Counseling, and Support (NACS)
This cross-sectional study among rural and urban populations with different socio-economic status found that the catch-up growth spurt following a nutrition intervention is a more sensitive indicator of past undernourishment than static thresholds for stunting.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Micronutrient Fortification of Commercially Available Biscuits Is Predicted to Have Minimal Impact on Prevalence of Inadequate Micronutrient Intakes: Modeling of National Dietary Data from Cameroon
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Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning
Infant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)
Biscuit fortification is uncommon and unlikely to reduce dietary inadequacy of studied micronutrients in the absence of large-scale food fortification programs. As voluntary fortification becomes increasingly common, modeling studies could guide efforts to ensure that fortified products align with public health goals.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Revisiting the Evidence on Kwashiorkor Malnutrition
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Knowledge Management
WastingInfant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)
Researchers and practitioners review recent evidence related to kwashiorkor, including treatment, diet, and associated biochemical mechanisms, overt signs, and the metabolic and biochemical characterization of kwashiorkor. This is a series of three webinars.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Advocacy Toolkit – Nurturing Care
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Early Childhood Development
Infant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)
The toolkit provides materials for those seeking to advocate for increased attention to and investment in early childhood development include country profiles, case studies, examples of advocacy best practices, key messages, quotes that capture the critical elements of nurturing care, a detailed explanation of nurturing care, and answers to frequently asked questions.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Differential Influences of Early Growth and Social Factors on Young Children’s Cognitive Performance in Four Low-and-Middle-Income Birth Cohorts (Brazil, Guatemala, Philippines, and South Africa)
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Early Childhood Development
Growth Monitoring and PromotionInfant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)
Research demonstrates that parental education and household resources have a greater impact on childhood cognition than birth weight and early linear growth. Improving children’s cognitive functioning requires multi-sectoral interventions to strengthen parental education and economic wellbeing.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Group Sessions or Home Visits for Early Childhood Development in India: A Cluster RCT
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Early Childhood Development
Infant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)
This randomized control trial found that weekly home visits and mother-child group sessions, both of which included nutritional education, had an equal effect on cognition and language. Because of their lower per-child cost, group sessions are more scalable than home visits. This article is behind a paywall.
Adolescent Nutrition Resource Bank
Nutrition for Girls: Multiple Determinants for Improved Outcomes
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Adolescent NutritionInfant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)Maternal Nutrition
This discussion paper was developed to promote the prioritization of nutrition for girls in the global nutrition agenda. It focuses on the importance of investing more in nutrition-sensitive interventions for girls, including preventing early marriage and early pregnancy, and empowering girls. The paper features a case study of the nutrition of girls in Nepal.