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Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Modality Decision Tool: Nutrition Addendum
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Emergency NutritionFood SecurityInfant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)Maternal NutritionMicronutrient InterventionsResilience
This tool provides guidance for implementing partners to apply a nutrition lens to the selection of appropriate food assistance modalities and presents considerations in alignment with the four Modality Decision Tool concepts of appropriateness, feasibility, objective, and cost.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Delivering Nutrition Interventions to Women and Children in Conflict Settings: A Systematic Review
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Adolescent NutritionBreastfeedingEmergency NutritionInfant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)Maternal NutritionMicronutrient InterventionsNutrition Assessment, Counseling, and Support (NACS)
This review synthesizes data on the delivery, coverage, and effectiveness of nutrition programs in areas of conflict. Available studies focus on micronutrient supplementation, nutrition assessments, and interventions for young children and pregnant and lactating women, but there is little research evaluating coverage or effectiveness of nutrition interventions.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Implementing a Novel Facility-Community Intervention for Strengthening Integration of Infant Nutrition and Family Planning in Mara and Kagera, Tanzania
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BreastfeedingInfant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)Maternal Nutrition
A multifaceted intervention to integrate maternal and infant nutrition and postpartum family planning (FP) into existing health contacts increased FP and early breastfeeding (EBF) at six weeks postpartum, demonstrated that lactational amenorrhea method (LAM) was acceptable, provided an entry point for important FP conversations, and reinforced EBF practices.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
The Role of Micronutrients in Child Growth and Development
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Adolescent NutritionMaternal NutritionMicronutrient Interventions
Speakers discuss the relationship between micronutrient deficiencies in mothers and children and how evidence-based interventions and nutrition policy can help alleviate micronutrient malnutrition. This is a webinar.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Mycotoxin Exposure and Nutritional Status in the First 1000 Days: Policy and Programmatic Implications
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Food SafetyInfant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)Maternal Nutrition
Speakers discuss the programmatic and policy implications of the relationship between nutritional status and mycotoxin exposure. This is a webinar.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Elevating Mothers’ and Women’s Nutrition
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Adolescent NutritionCOVID-19Maternal NutritionNutrition Sensitive Agriculture
USAID Advancing Nutrition has conducted a systematic review of evidence on behavioral interventions about how to involve family members in supporting women’s nutrition, launched the Adolescent Nutrition Resource Bank, and developed a learning agenda on women’s diets to synthesize evidence and learning across its portfolio.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Why We Need to Focus on Quality Care for Women and Newborns
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Infant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)Maternal Nutrition
The Network for Improving Quality Care for Maternal, Newborn and Child Health provides a platform for collaboration and learning across programs and countries.
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
Social and Behavior Change Resources for Women's Healthy Diets: 5 Gaps and Recommendations
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Social and Behavior Change and Gender
Maternal Nutrition
To explore the gaps in social and behavior change (SBC) resources for women’s healthy diets, USAID Advancing Nutrition identified quality SBC tools and resources through document review and expert interviews. In addition, we identified five key gaps in existing SBC resources and five recommendations for future research and SBC resource development.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Exploring the Influence of Social Norms on Complementary Feeding: A Scoping Review of Observational, Intervention, and Effectiveness Studies
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Food SecurityInfant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)Maternal NutritionNutrition Assessment, Counseling, and Support (NACS)Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH)
Social norms and cultural beliefs can be influential barriers or facilitators for adopting improved complementary feeding (CF) practices, but guidance to address norms and beliefs is limited.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Volunteer Community Health and Agriculture Workers Help Reduce Childhood Malnutrition in Tajikistan
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Adolescent NutritionMaternal NutritionWater, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH)
Community volunteers specializing in maternal, newborn, and child health, water, sanitation, and hygiene activities, and agriculture are an effective workforce to improve individual knowledge, attitudes, and practices that result in better nutrition and improve the dietary diversity of women and children.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Series on Maternal and Child Undernutrition Progress
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WastingAdolescent NutritionCOVID-19Infant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)Maternal NutritionMicronutrient Interventions
Three new papers build upon findings from the 2008 and 2013 Series. They conclude that despite modest progress, maternal and child undernutrition remains a major global health concern.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Mobilising Evidence, Data, and Resources to Achieve Global Maternal and Child Undernutrition Targets and the Sustainable Development Goals: An Agenda for Action
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Adolescent NutritionAnemiaBreastfeedingCOVID-19Emergency NutritionInfant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)Maternal NutritionMicronutrient InterventionsNutrition Assessment, Counseling, and Support (NACS)Nutrition Sensitive AgricultureWater, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH)
New evidence from national and state-level success stories in stunting reduction reinforces the need for multisectoral actions to address underlying determinants of undernutrition and identifies key features of enabling political environments. Well-resourced nutrition data and information systems are essential to support this work.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
The Lancet Series on Maternal & Child Undernutrition Progress
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Adolescent NutritionMaternal NutritionWater, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH)
Multi-sectoral nutrition leaders discuss how the evidence base for nutrition; health; food systems; social protection; and water, sanitation, and hygiene interventions has evolved since the first Lancet Series on Maternal & Child Undernutrition was published in 2013. They also identify priority actions to regain and accelerate progress within the next decade. This is a webinar.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Why Tackling Malnutrition Matters for Women's Empowerment
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Adolescent NutritionCOVID-19Maternal Nutrition
While gender equality and women’s empowerment are associated with improved child nutrition, early childhood nutrition also contributes to strong and healthy women. Interventions such as supplying pregnant women with prenatal vitamins can make a significant difference to their financial security and economic empowerment.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Micronutrient Forum 5th Global Conference: CONNECTED 2020
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Adolescent NutritionAnemiaBreastfeedingCOVID-19Emergency NutritionFood SafetyInfant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)Maternal NutritionNutrition Assessment, Counseling, and Support (NACS)Nutrition Sensitive AgriculturePrivate-Sector Engagement
Recently made available to the public at no cost, conference research tracks explore Micronutrient Biology and Status Assessment, Efficacy and Safety of Micronutrient Interventions, Program Effectiveness, Designing an Enabling Environment for Micronutrients, and Food Systems. Slideshows and other written materials accompany recorded presentations.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
2021: Make-or-Break Year to Keep Nutrition Promises to Mothers and Children
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WastingAdolescent NutritionBreastfeedingCOVID-19Maternal Nutrition
Fortifying foods with essential vitamins and nutrients, supporting mothers to breastfeed, treating acute malnutrition, and providing nutrient supplements to mothers and children are proven, cost-effective solutions, but this work remains underfunded, limiting the ability to scale interventions.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Minimum Dietary Diversity for Women: An Updated Guide to Measurement: From Collection to Action
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BreastfeedingMaternal Nutrition
Authors discuss high quality methodologies to collect, analyze, interpret, and present data on women’s dietary diversity for use in research, impact assessment, and large-scale health and nutrition surveys.
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
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.