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Recommended Maternal Nutrition Priorities for Uganda: Findings from the Maternal Nutrition Operational Guidance Field Test
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Nutrition and Health Systems
Maternal Nutrition
This report on maternal nutrition priorities in Uganda highlights findings from a field test of Maternal Nutrition Operational Guidance: Program Considerations for Low- and Middle-Income Countries, published by the USAID-funded Maternal and Child Survival Program.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Measuring Malnutrition in All Its Forms: An Update of the Net State of Nutrition Index to Track the Global Burden of Malnutrition at Country Level
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WastingAdolescent NutritionGrowth Monitoring and PromotionInfant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)Maternal NutritionNutrition Assessment, Counseling, and Support (NACS)
Adding female adult overweight and preschooler vitamin A deficiency indicators to the Net State of Nutrition Index captures important dimensions of malnutrition. Including these indicators will help policymakers tailor policies and interventions, track changes in the burden of malnutrition over time, and measure the success of investments and programs.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Introducing a Suite of Low-Burden Diet Quality Indicators That Reflect Healthy Diet Patterns at Population Level
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Growth Monitoring and PromotionInfant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)Maternal NutritionNutrition Assessment, Counseling, and Support (NACS)
Moderate-to-strong associations between food-group scores and 11 global dietary recommendations exist. Food-group consumption data can track progress of countries and populations toward meeting WHO guidance on healthy diets.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Stakeholder Consultation: U.S. Government Global Nutrition Coordination Plan 2.0
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BreastfeedingCOVID-19Infant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)Maternal NutritionMicronutrient Interventions
Priorities include women’s nutrition before and during pregnancy and lactation, breastfeeding and complementary feeding for ages 0–24 months, management of wasting in children under the age of 5, and micronutrient provision. Emerging issues include COVID-19, obesity, climate, and dietary-related noncommunicable diseases.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Nutrition International Learning Resources
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BreastfeedingCOVID-19Infant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)Maternal NutritionMicronutrient InterventionsNutrition Assessment, Counseling, and Support (NACS)
An online repository for research and knowledge products published by Nutrition International, such as scientific articles, guidelines, fact sheets, policy briefs, and online tools.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Impact of Nutrient Supplementation on Maternal Nutrition and Child Growth and Development in Sub‐Saharan Africa: The Case of Small‐Quantity Lipid‐Based Nutrient Supplements
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Micronutrient InterventionsMaternal Nutrition
Small‐quantity lipid‐based nutrient supplements, given alone or as part of an intervention package, improved infant and child growth in most, but not all, clinical trials reviewed. Supplementation may have greater impact if programs also address underlying factors that contribute to growth faltering.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Adapting NTEAM’s Technical Assistance for Nutrition Project in Bangladesh to Support the National Response to the Nutrition Challenges Posed by COVID-19
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COVID-19Emergency NutritionFood SecurityMaternal NutritionNutrition Assessment, Counseling, and Support (NACS)
Nutrition International staff describe efforts to support the Government of Bangladesh in its COVID-19 response planning and implementation and discuss revising guidelines for food basket provision and forecasting the impacts of COVID-19 on malnutrition in detail. The director general of the Bangladesh National Nutrition Council discusses nine prioritized mitigation measures.
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
Determinants of Women’s Dietary Diversity and Consumption of Micronutrient-Rich Foods in Winter in the Kyrgyz Republic
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Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning
Maternal Nutrition
Encouraging do-able actions to increase food access and increasing knowledge of good nutrition practices improved women’s diets in the Kyrgyz Republic. Learn more about USAID Advancing Nutrition at the 5th Micronutrient Forum Global Conference.
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
USAID Advancing Nutrition Kyrgyz Republic Fact Sheet
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Capacity Strengthening
Infant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)Maternal Nutrition
Malnutrition among children and women in the Kyrgyz Republic is an urgent problem with negative long-term consequences for socio-economic Development.
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
Formative Assessment Report: Kyrgyzstan
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Early Childhood Development
Maternal Nutrition
USAID Advancing Nutrition works to improve the nutritional status of women of reproductive age (15 to 49) and children under 5 in the Kyrgyz Republic, with a specific focus on the 1,000-day window of opportunity for preventing malnutrition between the start of a woman’s pregnancy and the child’s second birthday.
Adolescent Nutrition Resource Bank
Technical Consultation on Indicators of Adolescent Health: Global Reference List
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Adolescent NutritionMaternal Nutrition
This reference list of health indicators for adolescents age 10 to 19 was developed through a 2014 WHO technical consultation on indicators to measure and report on adolescent health, and to explore mechanisms for validating and/or testing new indicators.
Adolescent Nutrition Resource Bank
Identifying Nutrition and Health-Relevant Behaviors, Beliefs, and Values of School-Going Adolescent Girls in Rural Bangladesh: Context for Interventions
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Adolescent NutritionMaternal Nutrition
This study, which focused on adolescent schoolgirls in rural Bangladesh, aimed to describe the context for effective intervention planning for a replicable model of integrating nutrition activities into social programs. The study revealed the importance of teachers and mothers as information sources, and the dietary and cultural roles of purchased snacks.
Adolescent Nutrition Resource Bank
Participação de Crianças na Aprendizagem e Acção para Nutrição (PCAANS)
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Adolescent NutritionBreastfeedingMaternal Nutrition
This is a Portuguese-language poster from the Children’s Participation in Action and Learning for Nutrition (PCAANS) project in Mozambique. The poster describes PCAANS, including its key messages.
Adolescent Nutrition Resource Bank
Suaahara II Annual Survey: Adolescent Panel Year 2
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Adolescent NutritionAnemiaMaternal NutritionWater, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH)
This document is the data collection tool used in Year 2 of the Suaahara project, which focused on expanding health and nutrition services for adolescents in Nepal.
Adolescent Nutrition Resource Bank
Suaahara II Annual Survey: Adolescent Panel Year 3
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Adolescent NutritionAnemiaMicronutrient InterventionsMaternal NutritionWater, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH)
This document is the data collection tool used in Year 3 of the Suaahara project, which focused on expanding health and nutrition services for adolescents in Nepal.
Adolescent Nutrition Resource Bank
Special Issue: Women's and Adolescent Nutrition
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Adolescent NutritionMaternal Nutrition
This is a special issue of Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences on Women's and Adolescent Nutrition. It contains articles on such issues as global and regional trends in the nutritional status of young people, a systematic review of evidence-based adolescent nutrition interventions, and a review of nutrition guidelines for adolescents in LMICs.
Adolescent Nutrition Resource Bank
National Nutrition Policy of Sri Lanka (2010-2018)
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Adolescent NutritionFood SecurityMaternal Nutrition
The National Nutrition Policy of Sri Lanka (2010-2018) includes a focus on adolescent undernutrition and obesity. The majority of interventions are implemented in the school setting to establish a positive nutrition enabling environment there.
Adolescent Nutrition Resource Bank
Tanzania National Multisectoral Nutrition Action Plan (NMNAP) 2016-2021: From Evidence to Policy to Action
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Adolescent NutritionEmergency NutritionFood SecurityMaternal Nutrition
Tanzania's National Multisectoral Nutrition Action Plan aims to improve maternal, infant, young child, and adolescent nutrition.
Adolescent Nutrition Resource Bank
Pakistan Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Strategy 2018-2025
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Adolescent NutritionAnemiaMicronutrient InterventionsMaternal Nutrition
The Pakistan Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Strategy for 2018-2025 adopts a multi-sectoral planning and analysis framework. The strategy includes provisions for adolescent girls' nutrition, including micronutrient supplementation, regulation of foods marketed to adolescents, addressing gender equality issues, and health and nutrition education.
Adolescent Nutrition Resource Bank
Philippines Plan of Action for Nutrition (PPAN) 2017-2022
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Maternal NutritionAdolescent NutritionFood Safety
The Philippines Plan of Action for Nutrition for 2017-2022 focuses on the first 1,000 days of life, the provision of nutrition-specific and nutrition-sensitive programs, and reaching geographically isolated and disadvantaged areas and indigenous people.