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Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
COVID-19 Nutrition Resources
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Food SystemsMonitoring, Evaluation, and Learning
BreastfeedingCOVID-19Emergency NutritionFood SafetyFood SecurityInfant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)
These resources focus on multi-sectoral nutrition programming in the context of COVID-19. Research and reports provide guidance about nutrition in humanitarian contexts, monitoring, evaluation and learning, safe breastfeeding practices for COVID-19 positive women, social and behavior change for nutrition in context of COVID-19, and food security.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
How Countries Can Reduce Child Stunting at Scale: Lessons from Exemplar Countries
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Nutrition and Health Systems
WastingInfant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)Maternal NutritionNutrition Assessment, Counseling, and Support (NACS)Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH)
Reducing child stunting requires interventions in multiple sectors. Improving maternal education, fertility practices, and nutrition, as well as maternal and newborn care, are strong contributors to change. Investing to improve reproductive health practices are important to increase contraceptive use, delay first pregnancy, and increase birth spacing.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Five Ways Health and Social Services Can Support Babies, Toddlers and the People Who Care for Them through the Covid-19 Pandemic
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Early Childhood Development
COVID-19Infant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)Nutrition Assessment, Counseling, and Support (NACS)
COVID-19 requires health care, social services, childcare, and other sectors to address rapidly changing governmental policies. Priorities include early years health and nutrition services, parent coaching and support through remote means, childcare services, mental health services to caregivers and families with young children, and investments to prevent and address domestic violence.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Parental Health and Early Child Development
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Early Childhood Development
Early Childhood DevelopmentInfant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)
The period from pregnancy to age 3 is when children are most susceptible to extreme poverty, gender inequities, violence, toxins, and poor mental health. Parents and other caretakers need information, resources, and services to provide nurturing care.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Early Life Experiences and Trajectories of Cognitive Development
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Early Childhood Development
Infant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)
Evidence demonstrates that a supporting and nurturing environment—defined as warmth and responsiveness, discipline and control, stimulation, and teaching—improves cognitive development. Conversely, chronic illness during childhood is negatively associated with cognitive development and school readiness.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Covid-19 Technical Support: Guidance and Tools
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Nutrition in Humanitarian ContextsNutrition and Health Systems
COVID-19Food SecurityInfant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)
UNICEF, the Global Nutrition Cluster, and GTAM have put together technical guidance and tools to help address the effects of COVID-19 on nutrition programming. They are also producing a series of nutrition guidance briefs to help programmers respond to and mitigate the impacts of COVID-19.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Mixed-Methods Systematic Review of Behavioral Interventions in Low- and Middle-Income Countries to Increase Family Support for Maternal, Infant, and Young Child Nutrition during the First 1000 Days
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Nutrition and Health SystemsSocial and Behavior Change and Gender
BreastfeedingInfant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)Maternal Nutrition
Research that draws causal inference, estimates the magnitude of impact, and identifies scalable behavioral interventions that engage fathers, grandmothers, and other family members to support mothers of infants and young children is limited.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Social Circumstances and Cultural Beliefs Influence Maternal Nutrition, Breastfeeding and Child Feeding Practices in South Africa
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Nutrition in Humanitarian ContextsSocial and Behavior Change and Gender
BreastfeedingInfant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)Maternal Nutrition
There is a gap between knowledge and practices related to maternal dietary diversity, breastfeeding, and infant and young child feeding. Lack of income, dependence on food purchasing, young mothers' feelings about breastfeeding, and cultural beliefs were drivers of this gap.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Facility Readiness and Counseling during Antenatal Care and the Relationship with Early Breastfeeding in Haiti and Malawi
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Nutrition and Health Systems
BreastfeedingInfant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)
While almost all surveyed health facilities in Haiti and Malawi reported that they routinely provided breastfeeding counseling, fewer than 30% of providers reported having recently attended relevant training, and only 4% of patients were observed to have received counseling as part of antenatal care.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
The International Code of Marketing of Breastmilk Substitutes: Frequently Asked Questions on the Roles and Responsibilities of Health Workers
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Nutrition and Health Systems
BreastfeedingInfant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)
Authors discuss common tactics that companies use to encourage health care workers to over-promote breast milk substitutes and clarify health care workers’ role and responsibilities to protect, promote, and support breastfeeding.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Frequently Asked Questions: Breastfeeding and COVID-19 for Health Care Workers
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Nutrition and Health Systems
BreastfeedingInfant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)
In addition to answering common questions about COVID-19 transmission through breast milk and the risks of choosing not to breastfeed, a decision tree helps health care workers understand current guidelines and precautionary steps to support breastfeeding mothers with a suspected or confirmed COVID-19 diagnosis.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Initiation of Breastfeeding in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: A Time-to-Event Analysis
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Nutrition and Health Systems
BreastfeedingInfant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)
Demographic and Health Survey data collected in 31 countries since 2015 show that women who deliver by cesarean section initiate breastfeeding later compared to those who give birth vaginally. Immediate skin-to-skin contact and higher parity were also significantly associated with shorter time to initiating breastfeeding.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Infant and Young Child Feeding in the Context of COVID-19
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Nutrition and Health Systems
BreastfeedingCOVID-19Emergency NutritionInfant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH)
During COVID-19, UNICEF recommends that mothers follow hygiene precautions while continuing recommended feeding practices. It calls for coordinating nutrition, health, food security and livelihood, agriculture, WASH, social protection, and mental health support to reach infants and young children.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Nutrition During Pregnancy and Lactation
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Nutrition and Health Systems
BreastfeedingInfant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)Maternal Nutrition
This brief summarizes new evidence related to nutrients, dietary patterns, and nutritional supplements, including improving the micronutrient composition of breastmilk. It identifies additional research needed to design effective interventions to improve maternal and infant nutrition.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Toolkit: Workplace Lactation Support Program
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Nutrition and Health Systems
BreastfeedingInfant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)
This toolkit provides practical advocacy, policy, technical, and financial guidance for employers, employees, governments, and donors working to support lactation in the workplace. It includes detailed case studies and is available in Vietnamese and English.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Measuring Coverage of Infant and Young Child Feeding Counselling Interventions: A Framework and Empirical Considerations for Survey Question Design
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Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning
BreastfeedingInfant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)
Infant and young child feeding counselling interventions are common, but data to track coverage of these activities is limited and inconsistent.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Making a Difference: An Evaluation Report of the World Breastfeeding Trends Initiative (WBTi) in Mobilising National Actions on Breastfeeding and IYCF
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Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning
BreastfeedingInfant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)
The WBTi has brought together diverse partners to advocate for breastfeeding and created national-level structures to benchmark breastfeeding and infant and young child feeding (IYCF) progress.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Meeting Emerging Nutrition Data Needs in DHS-8 (Blog)
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Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning
Infant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)Maternal Nutrition
To better understand the current state of nutrition and track nutrition interventions, the Woman’s Questionnaire asks 89 questions related to nutrition counseling, including questions on breastfeeding counseling.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
COVID-19 Pandemic and Mitigation Strategies: Implications for Maternal and Child Health and Nutrition
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Food Systems
WastingCOVID-19Infant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)Maternal Nutrition
COVID-19 has created profound challenges for maternal and child nutrition. This review urges governments, donors, and others to rely on data for decision-making as they prioritize investments to strengthen food supply chains, respond to acute food shortages, improve access to health care, and provide social safety net programs for the most vulnerable.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Experiences of Incorporating Support for Early Childhood Development into the Baby Friendly Community Initiative in Rural Kenya
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Early Childhood Development
BreastfeedingInfant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)Maternal Nutrition
The Care for Child Development package trains community health volunteers to help caregivers provide nurturing care and develop stronger relationships with young children. Participating volunteers reported that training increased their skills and confidence, while caregivers reported learning about feeding practices and the importance of play.