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Disability Resource Bank
Disability Resources
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Complementary FeedingInfant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)
This resource library compiles videos and booklets on the proper feeding of children with cerebral palsy.
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
Measuring What it Takes to Provide Care (Resource Collection)
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Social and Behavior Change and Gender
Adolescent NutritionChild NutritionInfant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)Mental Health
This toolkit presents measures of caregiver resources that are relevant to the care of young children and nutrition outcomes. These include mental health, healthy stress levels, perceived physical health, safety and security, equitable gender attitudes, self-efficacy, social support, and time sufficiency.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
The Effect of Interventions Distributing Home Fortification Products on Infant and Young Child Feeding (IYCF) Practices: A Systematic Narrative Review
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Nutrition and Health Systems
BreastfeedingInfant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)Micronutrient InterventionsNutrition Assessment, Counseling, and Support (NACS)
Small-quantity lipid-based nutrient supplements and micronutrient powders can address nutrient gaps for young children in low-resource settings. Programs that combine home fortification products with infant and young child feeding (IYCF) interventions may also contribute to improved IYCF practices in some settings.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Anthropometric Criteria for Best-Identifying Children at High Risk of Mortality: A Pooled Analysis of Twelve Cohorts
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Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning
WastingChild NutritionGrowth Monitoring and PromotionInfant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)
Researchers compared several anthropometric diagnostic criteria to assess risk of child mortality. The best indicators were weight-for-age Z-score (WAZ) <−2, mid-upper arm circumference (MUAC) <125 mm, MUAC < 115 mm or WAZ < −3, and WAZ < −3.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
The Effects of Multiple Micronutrient Fortified Beverage and Responsive Caregiving Interventions on Early Childhood Development, Hemoglobin, and Ferritin among Infants in Rural Guatemala
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Early Childhood Development
AnemiaInfant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)Micronutrient Interventions
In an area of Guatemala with high rates of anemia and iron deficiency, a multiple micronutrient-fortified beverage improved infants’ socioemotional development. There were no intervention effects on other measures of child development, hemoglobin, or ferritin.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Virtual Convening on Improving Nutrition among Children with Feeding Difficulties and Children with Disabilities
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Early Childhood Development
Infant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)Nutrition Assessment, Counseling, and Support (NACS)
This convening engaged experts working in nutrition, health, and disability programming; policy making and advocacy; and research in discussions around opportunities to improve nutritional care for children with feeding difficulties and children with disabilities.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Resources for Community Health Workers: Strengthening Nutrition Counseling through Empathetic Care
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Social and Behavior Change and Gender
Infant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)
This webinar highlights resources developed by Breakthrough ACTION Nigeria using human-centered design to help community health workers improve nutrition counseling. Speakers discuss the Infant and Young Child Feeding Image Bank and how to adapt materials to local contexts and engaged in a question-and-answer session.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Women’s Empowerment: An Essential Ingredient for Improved Nutrition in India
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Social and Behavior Change and Gender
WastingAdolescent NutritionChild NutritionCOVID-19GenderInfant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)Maternal NutritionNutrition Sensitive Agriculture
Participants in this study prioritized joint decision-making between women and men about agriculture-related household assets and women’s use of improved practices to grow nutrient-dense vegetables and fruits or to fish for household consumption and sales.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Nourishing Connections: Community Health Worker Job Aid
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Social and Behavior Change and Gender
GenderInfant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)
This booklet provides detailed activities and instructions for community health workers (CHWs) to assess caregiver nutrition knowledge, attitudes, and practices; listen carefully; provide compassionate counseling on child feeding through tailored discussions and problem solving; and develop an action plan.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Undernourished and Overlooked: A Global Nutrition Crisis in Adolescent Girls and Women
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Nutrition and Health Systems
Adolescent NutritionAnemiaEmergency NutritionGenderInfant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)Maternal NutritionMicronutrient Interventions
This report examines the current status, trends, and inequities in the nutritional status of adolescent girls and women of reproductive age, and the complex cultural, programmatic, and policy barriers they face in accessing nutritious diets, utilizing essential nutrition services, and benefiting from positive nutrition and care practices.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Complementary and Alternative Metrics for Tracking Population-Level Trends in Child Linear Growth
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Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning
Child NutritionGrowth Monitoring and PromotionInfant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)
Several linear growth metrics derived from anthropometric datasets may be alternatives to or complement stunting prevalence in tracking global progress in child health and nutrition. Further research is critical to explore the real-world use of these metrics.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Inside Look: How UNICEF is Tackling the Global Nutrition Crisis for Women and Girls
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Knowledge Management
WastingAdolescent NutritionAnemiaCOVID-19Emergency NutritionGenderInfant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)Maternal NutritionMicronutrient Interventions
A UNICEF nutrition specialist discusses breaking the cycle of malnutrition, the importance of addressing dangerous social and gender norms, the role of multiple micronutrient supplements and social protection programs in addressing malnutrition, and how addressing individual nutrition benefits society as a whole.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Building Momentum for Nutrition: Putting Proven Tools to Work
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Knowledge Management
WastingAnemiaBreastfeedingCOVID-19Infant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)Maternal NutritionMicronutrient InterventionsNutrition Assessment, Counseling, and Support (NACS)
This interactive webpage discusses challenges related to addressing nutrition, including COVID-19, climate change, and conflict. It presents cost-effective and evidence-based solutions and tools for ending severe malnutrition, discusses the goals of the Global Malnutrition Prevention and Treatment Act, and highlights USAID MOMENTUM’s work in several countries.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Food Insecurity and Malnutrition in West and Central Africa at 10-Year High as Crisis Spreads to Coastal Countries
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Nutrition in Humanitarian Contexts
WastingChild NutritionCOVID-19Emergency NutritionInfant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)Maternal NutritionPrivate-Sector EngagementWater, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH)
Global acute malnutrition is growing due to the unaffordability of a diversified nutritious diet; conflict; population displacement; and reduced access to social services, farming land, and fodder.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Achieving Food Security Through a Food Systems Lens
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Food Systems
Food SystemsInfant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)Resilience
This book chapter examines how food security has been framed and addressed historically. The author stresses the importance of a food systems approach to addressing the increasingly complex dynamics that impact food security.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Global Launch of the Nurturing Care Handbook and Practice Guide
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Early Childhood Development
Child NutritionEconomic GrowthInfant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)Maternal Nutrition
The handbook and guide provide practical guidance, training materials, tools, and examples for implementing the Nurturing Care Framework in various settings and strengthen advocacy and capacity strengthening efforts. This is a webinar.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Applying a Systems Thinking Approach to Early Childhood Development
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Early Childhood Development
Child NutritionCOVID-19Infant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)Maternal Nutrition
Speakers discuss how the COVID-19 pandemic, climate change, and other disruptions could prompt innovation and how applying systems thinking could help address longstanding challenges, such as scaling interventions, sustainability, and equity. This is a webinar.
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
Complementary Feeding in Emergencies Programming in Myanmar: A Case Study Based on the UNICEF Action Framework
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Nutrition in Humanitarian ContextsImproving Women and Children’s Diets in Emergency Contexts
Complementary FeedingEmergency NutritionInfant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)
The 2020 UNICEF report titled "Improving Young Children’s Diets during the Complementary Feeding Period" provides an Action Framework to improve the diets of children 6–23 months of age. This report is one of four case studies that use the Action Framework as a tool to examine the efforts in emergency contexts to support complementary feeding.
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
Complementary Feeding in Emergencies Programming in Yemen: A Case Study Based on the UNICEF Action Framework
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Nutrition in Humanitarian Contexts
Complementary FeedingEmergency NutritionInfant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)
The 2020 UNICEF report titled "Improving Young Children’s Diets during the Complementary Feeding Period" provides an Action Framework to improve the diets of children 6–23 months of age. This report is one of four case studies that use the Action Framework as a tool to examine the efforts in emergency contexts to support complementary feeding.
Disability Resource Bank
Nutrition Integration for the Children with Special Needs: A Facilitator’s Guide for Food Security, Nutrition, Livelihoods and Disability Inclusion Project Staffs
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BreastfeedingInfant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)Maternal Nutrition
This training supports the integration of disability inclusion into nutrition programming by providing information on the nutritional concerns of children with disabilities.