USAID Advancing Nutrition develops, curates, packages, and shares multi-sectoral nutrition knowledge to help you stay on top of developments and evidence in global nutrition programming.
Outil et guide pour l’examen du contenu nutritionnel des programmes de formation initiale
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Capacity StrengtheningAnemiaInfant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)Maternal NutritionMicronutrient InterventionsNutrition Assessment, Counseling, and Support (NACS)
Une formation initiale de qualité constitue le fondement de tous les services de nutrition, dotant les professionnels de la santé des compétences requises pour fournir des services de qualité dès le premier jour de travail. Cependant, le contenu nutritionnel est souvent obsolète et peut être difficile à intégrer dans la formation initiale.
USAID Advancing Nutrition Kyrgyz Republic Final Survey Report
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Behavior Change for NutritionMaternal Nutrition
This study by USAID Advancing Nutrition examines the results from baseline, midterm, and endline surveys that were carried out using phone interviews in mid-to-late fall (parts of October through December) in 2020, 2021, and 2022, respectively.
USAID Advancing Nutrition Kyrgyzstan: Jalal-Abad Success Story Video
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Behavior Change for NutritionBreastfeedingEarly Childhood DevelopmentInfant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)Maternal NutritionWater, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH)
USAID Advancing Nutrition Kyrgyzstan: Batken Success Story
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Behavior Change for NutritionBreastfeedingEarly Childhood DevelopmentInfant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)Maternal NutritionWater, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH)
USAID Advancing Nutrition Kyrgyz Republic Program Overview
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Behavior Change for NutritionBreastfeedingInfant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)Maternal NutritionWater, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH)
USAID Advancing Nutrition, or USAIDдин "Мыкты Азыктануу" долбоору, worked in the Kyrgyz Republic from October 2019 to October 2023, with a focus on Batken, Issyk-Kul, and Jalal-Abad Oblasts. This video provides an overview of project implementation.
Small-Quantity Lipid-Based Nutrient Supplements: What to Communicate to Program Participants
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Nutrition in Humanitarian ContextsBreastfeedingInfant 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.
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 ContextsGenderInfant 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.
Desk Review on Health Systems Approaches to Support Wasting Reduction
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Nutrition and Health SystemsAnemiaBreastfeedingComplementary 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.
Women’s Diets Learning Agenda: Key Learning and Future Directions
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Monitoring, Evaluation, and LearningAdolescent NutritionBreastfeedingGenderMaternal NutritionNutrition Assessment, Counseling, and Support (NACS)
The report summarizes lessons learned in the areas of improving women’s diets through market food environments, demand creation, family diets, counseling and other health service delivery, and policies and policy implementation.
Stunting: Considerations for Use as an Indicator in Nutrition Projects
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Monitoring, Evaluation, and LearningInfant 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.
Monitoring, Evaluation, and LearningAdolescent 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.
Monitoring, Evaluation, and LearningAnemiaInfant 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.
Improving Anemia Assessment in Clinical and Public Health Settings
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Monitoring, Evaluation, and LearningAnemiaMaternal NutritionMicronutrient Interventions
The authors’ propose a framework for anemia assessment that recognizes the overlapping causes of anemia; informs data collection and analysis through population-based surveys; and includes information on diagnostic tests, biomarkers and proposed cutoffs, and the feasibility of collecting different types of data.
Monitoring, Evaluation, and LearningAnemiaBreastfeedingComplementary 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.
Infant and Young Child Feeding Image Bank (Resource Collection)
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Knowledge ManagementSocial and Behavior Change and GenderBreastfeedingInfant 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.
Tool and Guide for Reviewing the Nutrition Content of Pre-Service Training Curricula
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Capacity StrengtheningAnemiaBreastfeedingInfant 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.
Call to Action for Strengthening Nutrition Content in Pre-Service Training
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Capacity StrengtheningInfant 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.