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Optimizing Diets by Using Local Foods for Improved Nutrition for Women and Children
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Anemia Toolkit
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Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Behaviors for Better Complementary Feeding: A Recipe for Success! Webinar
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Social and Behavior Change and Gender
Complementary FeedingInfant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)
Speakers summarize best practices and lessons learned about how to manage the complexity of complementary feeding through a multi-sectoral, behavior-centered approach. The webinar is available in English and French.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Measuring Social and Behavior Change in Nutrition Programs: A Guide for Evaluators
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Social and Behavior Change and Gender
Adolescent NutritionBreastfeedingFood SafetyFood SecurityGenderInfant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)Micronutrient InterventionsNutrition Sensitive AgricultureResilienceWastingWater, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH)
This eight-step guide helps USAID implementing partners and others engaged in evaluating activities that use social and behavior change to improve evaluation quality. The guide is available in English and French.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Integrating Social Norms in Nutrition Programs: Ready-to-Use Menu Options for Program Planners
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Social and Behavior Change and Gender
Food SystemsGenderInfant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)Maternal Nutrition
The menu provides examples of formative research questions, activity descriptions, and indicators to inform monitoring and evaluation efforts.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Supporting Integrated Infant and Young Child Nutrition and Early Childhood Development Programming: Ages and Stages Reference Package and Resource Collection
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Nutrition in Humanitarian Contexts
BreastfeedingComplementary FeedingInfant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)
Modules provide age- and stage-specific information about how children grow and develop, their feeding and care needs, and the challenges caregivers face providing optimal care. They also provide examples of activities that programs can facilitate to support nutrition, responsive care, and early learning activities.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Small-Quantity Lipid-Based Nutrient Supplements: What to Communicate to Program Participants
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Nutrition in Humanitarian Contexts
BreastfeedingInfant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)Maternal NutritionMicronutrient InterventionsWasting
This brief helps implementing partners develop accurate communication materials to accompany the distribution of small-quantity lipid-based nutrient supplements.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Management of Moderate Wasting Using Local Foods: Documentation of Approaches in Nigeria, Senegal, and Uganda
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Nutrition in Humanitarian Contexts
Child NutritionEmergency NutritionInfant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)Micronutrient InterventionsWasting
Recommendations offered in this report include engaging in more rigorous monitoring; developing guidance on the minimum nutrition composition of recipes using local foods; studying the effectiveness of local versus commercially prepared specially formulated foods; identifying benefits of complementary activities; conducting costing studies to identify tradeoffs between program duration, outcome
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Key Considerations for Engaging Men in Maternal, Infant, and Young Child Nutrition Programming. A Technical Report for USAID Resilience Food Security Activity Implementing Partners
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Nutrition in Humanitarian Contexts
GenderInfant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)Maternal NutritionNutrition Sensitive AgricultureWater, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH)
The report identifies common approaches and barriers to engaging men in programming and considerations for the design, implementation, monitoring, and sustainability of engagement activities that minimize risk and ensure women’s agency and safety.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Desk Review on Health Systems Approaches to Support Wasting Reduction
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Nutrition and Health Systems
AnemiaBreastfeedingComplementary FeedingFood SafetyFood SecurityInfant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)Maternal NutritionMicronutrient InterventionsWastingWater, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH)
The review presents evidence for the effectiveness of health system approaches and discusses implementation considerations.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Counseling in Growth Monitoring and Promotion: A Rapid Desk Review and Learning Agenda
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Nutrition and Health Systems
Growth Monitoring and PromotionInfant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)Micronutrient Interventions
The learning agenda informs research and learning investments that will guide growth monitoring and promotion programming and policies globally.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
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 NutritionWasting
The literature review summarizes strengths and limitations of stunting as an indicator of impact. It informed the development of recommended approaches and indicators to measure the results of nutrition programs.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
USAID Advancing Nutrition Peer-Reviewed Publications
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Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning
Adolescent NutritionAnemiaBreastfeedingChild NutritionGrowth Monitoring and PromotionInfant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)Maternal NutritionMicronutrient Interventions
This collection of peer-reviewed publications since USAID Advancing Nutrition’s launch in 2018 showcases our work around micronutrient and anemia measurement, breastfeeding, and diet quality.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Approaches to Address the Anemia Challenge
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Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning
AnemiaInfant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)Maternal NutritionMicronutrient InterventionsPrivate-Sector Engagement
Authors discuss interventions ranging from increasing dietary diversity, biofortification, food fortification, and supplementation to delayed cord clamping, and the prevention and treatment of malaria and helminths and other parasitic diseases and infections. Practitioners should tailor these interventions to the local context, cause, and affected population groups.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Biology of Anemia: A Public Health Perspective
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Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning
AnemiaBreastfeedingComplementary FeedingInfant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)Maternal NutritionMicronutrient Interventions
Authors share advances in understanding common causes of anemia, their interactions, and the roles of infections and inflammation as causes. They discuss the coincidence between regions with a high prevalence of anemia attributed to iron deficiency, those with endemic infections, and those with widespread genetic conditions affecting red blood cells.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Infant and Young Child Feeding Image Bank (Resource Collection)
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Knowledge ManagementSocial and Behavior Change and Gender
BreastfeedingInfant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)Maternal Nutrition
The Infant and Young Child Feeding Image Bank provides more than 900 images to illustrate recommended practices. Practitioners have used the images in more than 70 countries to promote behavior change for improved maternal and child nutrition.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Responsive Care and Early Learning Addendum
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Early Childhood Development
Infant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)
The package includes illustrated counseling cards; training materials; and a guide for planning, adapting, and implementing individual and group counseling sessions. Accompanying videos show real caregiver-child interactions for newborns and young children and counseling sessions between a health worker and caregiver.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Country Profiles Aim to Advance Nurturing Care for Improved Early Childhood Development
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Early Childhood Development
Infant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)
Country profiles present country-level secondary data, policies, and programs focused on improving nutrition and early childhood development outcomes through the provision of nurturing care.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Tool and Guide for Reviewing the Nutrition Content of Pre-Service Training Curricula
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Capacity Strengthening
AnemiaBreastfeedingInfant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)Maternal NutritionMicronutrient InterventionsNutrition Assessment, Counseling, and Support (NACS)Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH)
These resources can be used to assess and revise nutrition content in pre-service training curricula for health workers who provide frontline nutrition services. It is available in English and Russian.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Effectively Measuring Training: Building Knowledge and Skills for Nutrition Programs
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Capacity Strengthening
BreastfeedingInfant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)
Using best practices from the capacity strengthening field, this brief series guides program managers and technical staff to assess nutrition training programs. Additional briefs explore the challenges of measuring capacity strengthening activities and illustrate measurement tools and approaches at work in Uganda.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Call to Action for Strengthening Nutrition Content in Pre-Service Training
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Capacity Strengthening
Infant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)Maternal NutritionMicronutrient InterventionsNutrition Assessment, Counseling, and Support (NACS)
Investing in pre-service training is an effective and sustainable way to improve nutrition services, but it requires collaboration among governments, academic institutions, professional associations, funders, and technical experts to ensure curricula prepare frontline health workers to deliver quality nutrition services. The brief is available in English, French, and Portuguese.
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
Elevating Nutrition in Pre-Service Training: A Competency-Based Tool to Assess Coverage of Nutrition Content Webinar
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Capacity StrengtheningNutrition and Health Systems
AnemiaBreastfeedingInfant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)Maternal NutritionNutrition Assessment, Counseling, and Support (NACS)
In this webinar experts from three countries discussed the challenges of integrating nutrition into pre-service training and their experiences using this tool to meet some of those challenges. Panelists also discussed how to advocate for improved nutrition content in pre-service training.