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Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Strengthening Maternal Nutrition Counselling during Routine Health Services: A Gap Analysis to Guide Country Programmes
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Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning
Maternal NutritionNutrition Assessment, Counseling, and Support (NACS)
Delivering maternal nutrition counseling through multiple delivery platforms improved maternal diet and/or weight gain during pregnancy.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Re-imagining Technical Assistance Hub
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Knowledge Management
Child NutritionInfant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)Maternal Nutrition
Ministries of health used human-centered design to identify how to improve technical assistance delivery for maternal, newborn, and child health and health systems strengthening, all of which contribute to improved nutrition.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Measuring What the World Eats: Launch of the Diet Quality Project Data
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Food Systems
Maternal Nutrition
Speakers present dietary quality data from 41 countries and discuss the feasibility of a global monitoring system for diet quality. This webinar includes a slide deck.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Global Dietary Quality in 185 Countries from 1990 to 2018 Show Wide Differences by Nation, Age, Education, and Urbanicity
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Food Systems
Adolescent NutritionChild NutritionMaternal Nutrition
The Alternative Healthy Eating Index produced regional means ranging from 30.3 (out of 100) in Latin America and the Caribbean to 45.7 in South Asia. Child scores were lower than adult scores in Central and Eastern Europe, Central Asia, the Middle East and North Africa, and high-income countries. Scores were higher among women and more educated individuals.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Strengthening Maternal, Infant, and Young Child Nutrition Training and Counseling in Ghana: A Community-Based Approach
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Early Childhood Development
Infant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)Maternal Nutrition
Caregivers prioritized provider counseling, family and community support, and food safety knowledge and practice as important for responsive feeding (RF) and parenting. Providers stressed the need to integrate RF into maternal, infant, and young child nutrition training and counseling, and provide facilities with RF tools and materials.
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
Agriculture in Complex Emergencies: Exploring the Association between Agricultural Programs and Dietary Diversity among Women and Children: A Synthesis of Study Findings from Cameroon and South Sudan
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Nutrition in Humanitarian ContextsImproving Women and Children’s Diets in Emergency Contexts
DietsEmergency NutritionFood SecurityMaternal NutritionNutrition Sensitive Agriculture
The United States Agency for International Development’s (USAID's) Bureau for Humanitarian Assistance (BHA) seeks to improve the impact of emergency-funded agricultural activities on nutritional status, especially that of women and young children.
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
Agriculture in Complex Emergencies: Exploring the Association between Agricultural Programs and Dietary Diversity among Women and Children in Cameroon: Study Findings
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Nutrition in Humanitarian ContextsImproving Women and Children’s Diets in Emergency Contexts
DietsEmergency NutritionFood SecurityMaternal NutritionNutrition Sensitive Agriculture
The United States Agency for International Development’s (USAID's) Bureau for Humanitarian Assistance (BHA) seeks to improve the impact of emergency-funded agricultural activities on nutritional status, especially that of women and young children.
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
Integrating Gender into Nutrition Programs: Program Guide
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Social and Behavior Change and Gender
Adolescent NutritionBehavior Change for NutritionComplementary FeedingFood SystemsInfant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)Maternal Nutrition
This guide is for nutrition program planners and implementers who aim to integrate gender into global or country-based multi-sectoral nutrition activities.
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
Micronutrient Deficiencies among Preschool-Aged Children and Women of Reproductive Age Worldwide: A Pooled Analysis of Individual-Level Data from Population-Representative Surveys
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Monitoring, Evaluation, and LearningMicronutrient Measurement
Maternal NutritionMicronutrient Interventions
With financial support from USAID through USAID Advancing Nutrition, a group of researchers including the Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition, and the Global Micronutrient Deficiencies Research Group set out to transparently estimate the global and regional prevalence of deficiencies in one or more micronutrients among preschool-age children and non-pregnant women of reproductive age.
Disability Resource Bank
CBM Prevention Toolkit on Birth Impairments
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Maternal NutritionMental HealthMicronutrient Interventions
This toolkit aims to train health professionals and birth attendants in early identification of birth defects, appropriate examination of newborns, and early referral for treatment.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
A Mixed Methods Study to Assess the Impact of COVID-19 on Maternal, Newborn, Child Health and Nutrition in Fragile and Conflict-Affected Settings
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Nutrition in Humanitarian Contexts
WastingAdolescent NutritionCOVID-19Emergency NutritionMaternal NutritionNutrition Assessment, Counseling, and Support (NACS)Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH)
The pandemic has reversed decades of progress in maternal, newborn, child health and nutrition (MNCHN), especially in fragile and conflict-affected settings. Reduced or suspended funding and insufficient adaptation strategies have likely increased morbidity and mortality.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Systematic Evidence and Gap Map of Research Linking Food Security and Nutrition to Mental Health
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Food SystemsNutrition and Health Systems
Adolescent NutritionBreastfeedingComplementary FeedingFood SecurityGrowth Monitoring and PromotionHIVInfant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)Maternal NutritionMicronutrient Interventions
The relationship between depression and diets and anthropometry was most common in the literature, while the connection between infant and young child feeding and anxiety, stress, and mental well-being were least studied.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Storytelling for Persuasion: Insights from Community Health Workers on How They Engage Family Members to Improve Adoption of Recommended Maternal Nutrition and Breastfeeding Behaviours in Rural Bangladesh
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Nutrition and Health Systems
Adolescent NutritionBreastfeedingMaternal NutritionNutrition Assessment, Counseling, and Support (NACS)
Mothers, fathers, and mothers-in-law in Bangladesh each responded to different types of messaging from community health workers counseling families on maternal, infant, and young child nutrition. Key motivators were improved fetal growth and child intelligence, while improved maternal health was the least motivating outcome, even among mothers.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Can Digitally Enabling Community Health and Nutrition Workers Improve Services Delivery to Pregnant Women and Mothers of Infants? Quasi-Experimental Evidence from a National-Scale Nutrition Programme in India
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Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning
Infant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)Maternal NutritionNutrition Assessment, Counseling, and Support (NACS)
Integrating a mobile app with existing services improved timeliness of home visits and appropriate counseling, especially when existing service levels were low, but did not impact infant and young child feeding practices. Digital enhancements can complement but should not replace other efforts to strengthen health systems and address structural barriers.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Fortified Balanced Energy-Protein Supplementation, Maternal Anemia, and Gestational Weight Gain: A Randomized Controlled Efficacy Trial Among Pregnant Women in Rural Burkina Faso
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Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning
AnemiaMaternal NutritionMicronutrient Interventions
In Burkina Faso, fortified balanced energy-protein supplementation (BEP) did not reduce maternal anemia or increase gestational weight gain when compared with iron–folic acid. Small positive effects of maternal BEP supplementation on birth outcomes support the need for additional investigation of different biochemical and postnatal outcomes.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
USAID Nutrition Report to Congress FY22
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Knowledge Management
WastingAnemiaBreastfeedingCOVID-19Food SecurityInfant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)Maternal NutritionMicronutrient Interventions
The report discusses country-specific stunting, wasting, anemia, and breastfeeding gains in the face of COVID-19 shocks and the climate crisis.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Measuring Dietary Diversity: Evaluating a Novel Cell Phone Method to Extend the Reference Period without Increasing the Cognitive Burden on Respondents in Ethiopia
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Food Systems
Adolescent NutritionInfant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)Maternal Nutrition
Collecting dietary diversity data through high-frequency phone call surveys rather than through a one-time, in-person survey produced a lower household dietary diversity score but a higher women’s dietary diversity score, suggesting that the recall period impacts overreporting and underreporting food consumption.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
How to Engage Men in Nurturing Care across the Life Stages
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Early Childhood Development
GenderInfant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)Maternal Nutrition
This infographic shows how to support men in providing nurturing care from pregnancy to early childhood. It provides a curriculum, guidance, and checklists to train health care providers to increase father engagement.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Expanding Integrated Competency-Focused Health Worker Curricula for Maternal, Infant, and Young Child Nutrition
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Capacity Strengthening
Infant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)Maternal NutritionMicronutrient InterventionsNutrition Assessment, Counseling, and Support (NACS)
To ensure health workers have the knowledge, skills, and confidence to deliver nutrition services and accurate information, they need evidence-based competency standards; tools for learning, teaching, and assessment; and outcome monitoring.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Association Between Intimate Partner Violence and Nutritional Status of Married Nepalese Women
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Social and Behavior Change and Gender
AnemiaGenderMaternal Nutrition
Emotional and physical intimate partner violence (IPV) was significantly associated with increased risk of overweight/obesity, sexual IPV was significantly associated with increased risk of underweight (measured by body mass index), and controlling behavior was significantly associated with increased risk of anemia.