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Adolescent Nutrition Resource Bank
Multiple-micronutrient supplementation in pregnant adolescents in low- and middle-income countries: a systematic review and a meta-analysis of individual participant data
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Adolescent NutritionAnemiaMaternal NutritionMicronutrient Interventions
This systematic review and meta-analysis compared the effect of multiple-micronutrient (MMN) supplementation vs iron and folic acid (IFA) supplementation among adolescents on maternal morbidity, birth outcomes, and mortality outcomes.
Adolescent Nutrition Resource Bank
Family influences on health and nutrition practices of pregnant adolescents in Bangladesh
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Adolescent NutritionMaternal Nutrition
This resource includes a brief summarizing key findings from qualitative research with pregnant adolescents in Bangladesh focused on prenatal care and nutrition practices, as well as a peer-reviewed publication based on the in-depth interviews.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Food Security Portal
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Maternal Nutrition
Various e-learning courses address the importance of measuring women’s empowerment within project-specific contexts, impact evaluation, and economic modeling.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Maternal Micronutrient Supplementation: What Does It Take to Improve Adherence?
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Maternal NutritionMicronutrient Interventions
This e-learning course provides program planners and implementers with guidance and tools to improve the quality of maternal micronutrient supplementation programs delivered in antenatal care and postnatal care settings.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
The Rising COVID Malnutrition Crisis
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Adolescent NutritionCOVID-19Maternal Nutrition
Modeling indicates that by 2022, there will be an additional 13.6 million severely malnourished children, 3.6 million more stunted children, and 283,000 additional deaths of children. Speakers, including USAID Chief Nutritionist Shawn Baker, discuss opportunities to integrate nutrition into global COVID-19 response and recovery plans. This is a webinar.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
The View from Development Donor Countries, featuring USAID Chief Nutritionist Shawn Baker
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Adolescent NutritionAnemiaCOVID-19Emergency NutritionInfant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)Maternal NutritionMicronutrient InterventionsNutrition Sensitive AgriculturePrivate-Sector Engagement
While evidence-based solutions exist and progress has been made to improve food systems and nutrition, the pandemic has reduced the delivery of nutrition services and has impacted every system that people rely on for good nutrition.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Nutrition Voices: The Signal and the Noise—Episode 01
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Adolescent NutritionMaternal NutritionPrivate-Sector Engagement
The host of this podcast episode discusses the role of food and beverage multinational corporations in global nutrition and encourages actors in the sector to identify areas of divergence that impact trust and success.
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
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 Nutrition
This literature review summarizes the strengths and limitations of stunting as an indicator of nutrition interventions’ impact and informed the companion guidance document below, which suggests approaches and indicators for comprehensively and meaningfully measuring the results of nutrition programs.
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
Beyond Stunting: Complementary Indicators for Monitoring and Evaluating USAID Nutrition Activities
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Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning
Infant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)Maternal Nutrition
This guidance document suggests approaches and indicators for comprehensively and meaningfully measuring the results of nutrition programs.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
The Quality of Maternal Nutrition and Infant Feeding Counselling during Antenatal Care in South Asia
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Social and Behavior Change and Gender
BreastfeedingInfant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)Maternal Nutrition
There are evidence gaps about the quality of maternal nutrition and infant feeding counseling during antenatal care and the effectiveness of approaches to improve quality. Research suggests that unequal access to services, limited capacity-strengthening opportunities for frontline workers, and the short duration and frequency of counseling contracts constrain quality.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Strengthening Nutrition Interventions in Antenatal Care Services Affects Dietary Intake, Micronutrient Intake, Gestational Weight Gain, and Breastfeeding in Uttar Pradesh, India: Results of a Cluster-Randomized Program Evaluation
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BreastfeedingMaternal NutritionMicronutrient Interventions
Nutrition-intensified antenatal care (ANC), which provides more home visits and counseling on core nutrition messages than traditional ANC programs, increased iron–folic acid and calcium supplement intake. It also increased exclusive breastfeeding, consumption of vitamin A–rich foods and other vegetables and fruits, and gestational weight gain.
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
USAID Breastfeeding: Providing a Healthy Start for a Healthy Future
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Early Childhood DevelopmentKnowledge ManagementNutrition and Health SystemsGender Equality and Women’s Empowerment
BreastfeedingEarly Childhood DevelopmentInfant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)Maternal NutritionNutrition Assessment, Counseling, and Support (NACS)
For more than 40 years, the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) has promoted breastfeeding to save lives, prevent malnutrition, and enhance the long-term health and prosperity of women and children. By promoting breastfeeding in programs and policies, USAID is helping families chart productive and prosperous for their children and supporting communities to thrive.
Adolescent Nutrition Resource Bank
Adolescent and Women’s Nutrition and Anemia Facilitator Guide
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Adolescent NutritionAnemiaMaternal Nutrition
This facilitatator's guide (available in English and Russian) is intended to prepare facilitators with technical knowledge and skills to train doctors and nurses about adolescent and women’s nutrition and anemia throughout the life cycle.
Adolescent Nutrition Resource Bank
Nutrition of Adolescent Girls and Women of Reproductive Age in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: Current Context and Scientific Basis for Moving Forward
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Adolescent NutritionAnemiaMaternal NutritionMicronutrient Interventions
USAID/SPRING and PAHO commissioned this paper to summarize existing information on the current nutritional status of adolescent girls, women of reproductive age and pregnant and lactating women in LMICs, in order to inform key practices (similar to those developed for young children), that characterize the diet and feeding practices for these groups.
Adolescent Nutrition Resource Bank
Adolescent Girls Empowerment Program (AGEP): Nutrition Brief
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Adolescent NutritionAnemiaMaternal Nutrition
This project brief describes the impact of the Adolescent Girls' Empowerment Program (AGEP) on nutrition. AGEP enrolled >11,000 vulnderable adolescent girls, approximately half of whom were randomized to receive nutrition training sessions (3 for younger adolescents, 5 for older adolescents) as part of the AGEP curriculum.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Multiple-Micronutrient Supplementation in Pregnant Adolescents in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: A Systematic Review and a Meta-Analysis of Individual Participant Data
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Nutrition in Humanitarian Contexts
Maternal NutritionMicronutrient Interventions
Multiple-micronutrient (MMN) supplementation reduces low birth weight, preterm birth, and small-for-gestational-age births when compared with iron and folic acid supplementation. Antenatal care policies should prioritize MMN supplementation over iron-folic acid supplementation for all pregnant women, especially adolescents.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
The Social Norms Atlas: Understanding Global Social Norms and Related Concepts
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Infant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)Maternal Nutrition
While there is interest and funding to explore how social norms concepts and theory might facilitate social norms change, the success of applying these concepts and theory has been inconsistent. The Social Norms Atlas provides guidance to increase social norms knowledge and strengthen understanding of social norms relevant to particular sectors.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Social Norms in the Gender Digital Divide: USAID Digital Strategy Update
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Adolescent NutritionMaternal Nutrition
Information and communication technology (ICT) provides women with access to information and services that enable time savings, greater security, and freedom of expression and can catalyze economic growth.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
If You Don't Find Anything, You Can't Eat-Mining Livelihoods and Income, Gender Roles, and Food Choices in Northern Guinea
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Maternal Nutrition
Artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) continues to grow in sub-Saharan Africa, but how ASM affects food choices among those living in mining camps is not well understood. Research findings suggest that while artisanal mining may provide women with higher wages, financial benefits are often reduced or constrained by existing gender roles, which impacts household food decision-making.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Effect of Nutrition-Sensitive Agriculture Interventions with Participatory Videos and Women's Group Meetings on Maternal and Child Nutritional Outcomes in Rural Odisha, India (UPAVAN Trial): A Four-Arm, Observer-Blind, Cluster-Randomised Controlled Trial
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Adolescent NutritionMaternal NutritionNutrition Sensitive Agriculture
Women's groups that employ a combination of nutrition-sensitive agriculture videos, nutrition-specific videos, and participatory learning and action cycle meetings improve maternal and child diet quality. While these components have been implemented separately in several low-income settings, scaling them together could increase their impact.