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Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
How Hinga Weze Supported Smallholder Farmers to Improve Crop Productivity, Incomes, and Nutritional Status
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Knowledge Management
Infant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)Maternal NutritionNutrition Sensitive Agriculture
Hinga Weze trained and supported farmers, partnered with financial institutions and business development service providers to create agricultural loan products, created and strengthened solidarity savings groups, and strengthened extension services.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
WHO Recommendations on Maternal and Newborn Care for a Positive Postnatal Experience
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Early Childhood Development
BreastfeedingInfant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)Maternal Nutrition
Recommendations focus on improving the quality of essential, routine postnatal care for women and newborns receiving facility- or community-based care in any resource setting. This report includes accompanying materials.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Building SBC Capacity Focus of Innovative Blended Learning Program in West and Central Africa
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Capacity Strengthening
BreastfeedingCOVID-19Infant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)Maternal Nutrition
The blended learning program, which aims to build capacity to integrate social and behavior change (SBC) into nutrition programs, includes an online course as well as coaching support and live lectures to increase accountability. Despite occasional connectivity issues and a heavy reading load, participants reported learning practical skills, including developing costed SBC action plans.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Nutrition and Climate Change—Current State of Play: Scoping Review
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Nutrition in Humanitarian Contexts
Child NutritionInfant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)Maternal Nutrition
Complex, multi-directional pathways link nutrition and climate change. It is critical for sectors to work together and develop more holistic systematic approaches to address the threats of climate change to healthy and sustainable diets for populations vulnerable to undernutrition and crises.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Strategies for Infant and Young Child Feeding in Climate-Related Emergencies
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Nutrition in Humanitarian Contexts
Food SafetyInfant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)Maternal Nutrition
Experts discuss policies that support women by protecting families from predatory marketing and providing skilled breastfeeding support. They highlight case studies of disaster preparedness that focus on infant feeding safety and discuss strategies to protect and support maternal, infant, and young child nutrition. This is a webinar.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Global Challenges Mean That Advancing Nutrition is More Important than Ever
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Knowledge Management
Adolescent NutritionCOVID-19Emergency NutritionInfant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)Maternal NutritionMicronutrient Interventions
The global nutrition community saw the COVID-19 pandemic as a rallying call and galvanized support to prevent backsliding and improve nutrition around the world.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Focusing on Social Norms: A Practical Guide for Nutrition Programmers to Improve Women’s and Children’s Diets
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Social and Behavior Change and Gender
Infant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)Maternal Nutrition
This guide is for program planners and implementers developing norms-responsive activities within nutrition-sensitive or nutrition-specific programming. It includes tips and tools to improve program outcomes by understanding and responding to social norms and incorporates background on how to identify norms and monitor and measure change.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Experiences Engaging Family Members in Maternal, Child, and Adolescent Nutrition: A Survey of Global Health Professionals
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Social and Behavior Change and Gender
Adolescent NutritionGenderMaternal Nutrition
This research surveyed health professionals to document their experiences engaging family members in nutrition activities, their perceived barriers and facilitators, and their recommendations. Such research fills gaps in peer-reviewed literature to strengthen intervention design and implementation.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Women's Nutrition: A Summary of Evidence, Policy, and Practice including Adolescent and Maternal Life Stages
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Nutrition and Health Systems
Adolescent NutritionGenderMaternal NutritionMicronutrient Interventions
A study of evidence, interventions, and guidelines for the nutrition of adolescent girls and women found gaps that include a lack of guidelines on nutrition, preconception nutrition, and assessment of nutritional status.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Programme Guidance on Maternal Nutrition
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Nutrition and Health Systems
Maternal NutritionNutrition Assessment, Counseling, and Support (NACS)
UNICEF provides country teams and their partners with guidance on designing, implementing, and monitoring evidence-based programs to improve women’s nutrition across the life course.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Field Exchange: Special Issue on Nutrition of Adolescents and School-Aged Children
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Nutrition and Health Systems
Adolescent NutritionMaternal NutritionMicronutrient Interventions
Articles focus on implementing school-based nutrition programs, promoting youth leadership, improving food choices, and supporting pregnant teens.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Counselling to Improve Maternal Nutrition: Considerations for Programming with Quality, Equity and Scale: A Technical Brief
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Nutrition and Health Systems
Adolescent NutritionBreastfeedingEmergency NutritionMaternal NutritionNutrition Assessment, Counseling, and Support (NACS)
This brief outlines approaches to improve the enabling environment for maternal nutrition counseling. Authors review key considerations for the design of counseling services and strategies to strengthen service delivery platforms and build health worker capacity.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Tanzania’s New National Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Action Plan: What’s New and Why?
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Knowledge Management
Adolescent NutritionMaternal NutritionMicronutrient InterventionsWater, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH)
The plan outlines multi-sectoral interventions across health; food; education; water, sanitation, and hygiene; and social protection.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Scoping Review of Intervention Strategies for Improving Coverage and Uptake of Maternal Nutrition Services in Southeast Asia
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Nutrition and Health Systems
AnemiaMaternal NutritionMicronutrient InterventionsNutrition Assessment, Counseling, and Support (NACS)
This review recommends diverse strategies and delivery mechanisms, including health education, supplementation, community participation, and robust health system responses to achieve effective maternal nutrition programs.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Global and Local Partnerships Advance Nutrition
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Knowledge Management
Adolescent NutritionCOVID-19Food SecurityMaternal NutritionMicronutrient InterventionsNutrition Sensitive Agriculture
Collaborative multi-sectoral nutrition initiatives include establishing food security and nutrition planning guidelines; conducting training of trainers courses delivering nutrition-specific activities to adolescent girls, pregnant women, and women of reproductive age; and supporting governments to develop strategies and tools for nutrition services.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Standing Together for Nutrition Knowledge Hub
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Knowledge Management
Adolescent NutritionCOVID-19GenderMaternal Nutrition
The hub captures emerging evidence on the impact of crises on health, food, economic, social, and education systems; the disproportionate impact on women and girls’ nutrition; and effective measures to mitigate the burden.
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
Guide du programme : Impliquer les membres de la famille dans l’amélioration de la nutrition maternelle et infantile
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Social and Behavior Change and GenderGender Equality and Women’s Empowerment
Infant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)Maternal Nutrition
Le présent guide traduit les résultats de la recherche en recommandations pratiques pour des interventions qui impliquent effcacement les membres de la famille dans les soins et l’alimentation des enfants.
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
Focusing on Social Norms: A Practical Guide for Nutrition Programmers to Improve Women’s and Children’s Diets
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Social and Behavior Change and Gender
Behavior Change for NutritionComplementary FeedingInfant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)Maternal Nutrition
Social norms influence the meaning and value of food as well as roles and expectations. Updated in 2023 after user testing, this guide is for nutrition program planners and implementers planning norm-responsive activities within nutrition-sensitive or nutrition-specific programming.
Adolescent Nutrition Resource Bank
Maternal, Infant, Young Child and Adolescent Nutrition Action Plan 2020-2025
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Adolescent NutritionInfant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)Maternal Nutrition
This action plan is the Ugandan Ministry of Health's 5-year plan to reduce all forms of malnutrition in mothers, infants, young children, and adolescents. The action plan's objectives include to increase adolescents' access to nutrition-specific services and to strengthen school nutrition programs to promote optimal adolescent nutrition for improved health.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Strengthening Maternal Nutrition in Health Programs: A Guide for Practitioners
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Nutrition and Health Systems
Maternal Nutrition
This guide provides recommendations to add and strengthen maternal nutrition components in programs or services delivered by the health system, including actions to strengthen the overall health system and enabling environment. It includes a program planning process and additional information on collecting and synthesizing data.