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Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Evidence and Guidance Note on the Use of Cash and Voucher Assistance for Nutrition Outcomes in Emergencies
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Nutrition in Humanitarian Contexts
WastingEmergency NutritionFood SecurityMicronutrient InterventionsMaternal Nutrition
Cash and voucher assistance can improve maternal and child nutrition by increasing individuals’ ability to purchase goods and access services. Conditional transfers increase participation in nutrition social behavior change activities and preventive health services.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Maternal Diets Matter for Children's Dietary Quality: Seasonal Dietary Diversity and Animal-Source Foods Consumption in Rural Timor-Leste
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Nutrition and Health Systems
Maternal NutritionNutrition Sensitive Agriculture
Women's dietary quality and education levels are strong predictors of children's dietary diversity and consumption of animal-source foods, while seasonality impacts diversity and consumption. Production, affordability, and consumption of nutrient‐dense foods require widespread market access and sustained nutrition‐sensitive programs.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Making the Health System Work for the Delivery of Nutrition Interventions
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Nutrition and Health Systems
WastingMicronutrient InterventionsMaternal Nutrition
Successful delivery of nutrition interventions requires a skilled and motivated health workforce, an effective supply chain, demand for services, and access to services. Programs should encourage delivery of nutrition interventions at every client-provider interaction and should actively generate demand for both general and nutrition services.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Effective Coverage Measurement in Maternal, Newborn, Child, and Adolescent Health and Nutrition: Progress, Future Prospects, and Implications for Quality Health Systems
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Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning
Infant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)Maternal Nutrition
The widely used intervention coverage metric does not address quality and potentially overestimates the health benefits of services. Authors recommend that effective coverage be defined as the proportion of a population in need of a service that results in a positive health outcome from the service, and they identify several research priorities.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
How Countries Can Reduce Child Stunting at Scale: Lessons from Exemplar Countries
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Nutrition and Health Systems
WastingInfant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)Maternal NutritionNutrition Assessment, Counseling, and Support (NACS)Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH)
Reducing child stunting requires interventions in multiple sectors. Improving maternal education, fertility practices, and nutrition, as well as maternal and newborn care, are strong contributors to change. Investing to improve reproductive health practices are important to increase contraceptive use, delay first pregnancy, and increase birth spacing.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Defining Diet Quality: A Synthesis of Dietary Quality Metrics and Their Validity for the Double Burden of Malnutrition
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Food SystemsNutrition and Health Systems
Food SafetyMaternal Nutrition
Addressing the double burden of malnutrition requires attention to diet-related maternal and child health (MCH) and non-communicable diseases (NCDs). Identifying a unified global dietary quality metric that can measure the relative contributions of MCH and NCD to malnutrition would help policy and programmatic decision-making.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Mixed-Methods Systematic Review of Behavioral Interventions in Low- and Middle-Income Countries to Increase Family Support for Maternal, Infant, and Young Child Nutrition during the First 1000 Days
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Nutrition and Health SystemsSocial and Behavior Change and Gender
BreastfeedingInfant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)Maternal Nutrition
Research that draws causal inference, estimates the magnitude of impact, and identifies scalable behavioral interventions that engage fathers, grandmothers, and other family members to support mothers of infants and young children is limited.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Social Circumstances and Cultural Beliefs Influence Maternal Nutrition, Breastfeeding and Child Feeding Practices in South Africa
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Nutrition in Humanitarian ContextsSocial and Behavior Change and Gender
BreastfeedingInfant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)Maternal Nutrition
There is a gap between knowledge and practices related to maternal dietary diversity, breastfeeding, and infant and young child feeding. Lack of income, dependence on food purchasing, young mothers' feelings about breastfeeding, and cultural beliefs were drivers of this gap.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Nutrition During Pregnancy and Lactation
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Nutrition and Health Systems
BreastfeedingInfant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)Maternal Nutrition
This brief summarizes new evidence related to nutrients, dietary patterns, and nutritional supplements, including improving the micronutrient composition of breastmilk. It identifies additional research needed to design effective interventions to improve maternal and infant nutrition.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Meeting Emerging Nutrition Data Needs in DHS-8 (Blog)
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Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning
Infant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)Maternal Nutrition
To better understand the current state of nutrition and track nutrition interventions, the Woman’s Questionnaire asks 89 questions related to nutrition counseling, including questions on breastfeeding counseling.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
The Business Case for Investment in Nutrition
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Knowledge Management
BreastfeedingMaternal NutritionPrivate-Sector Engagement
Authors discuss the impacts of malnutrition on companies’ bottom line, including loss of productivity due to underweight employees and lifelong cognitive impacts from childhood malnutrition. While corporate entities cannot address all factors driving malnutrition, providing workplace support for breastfeeding women is within businesses’ sphere of influence.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
COVID-19 Pandemic and Mitigation Strategies: Implications for Maternal and Child Health and Nutrition
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Food Systems
WastingCOVID-19Infant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)Maternal Nutrition
COVID-19 has created profound challenges for maternal and child nutrition. This review urges governments, donors, and others to rely on data for decision-making as they prioritize investments to strengthen food supply chains, respond to acute food shortages, improve access to health care, and provide social safety net programs for the most vulnerable.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Experiences of Incorporating Support for Early Childhood Development into the Baby Friendly Community Initiative in Rural Kenya
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Early Childhood Development
BreastfeedingInfant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)Maternal Nutrition
The Care for Child Development package trains community health volunteers to help caregivers provide nurturing care and develop stronger relationships with young children. Participating volunteers reported that training increased their skills and confidence, while caregivers reported learning about feeding practices and the importance of play.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Baby Friendly Spaces: An Intervention for Pregnant and Lactating Women and Their Infants in Cameroon
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Early Childhood Development
BreastfeedingInfant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)Maternal Nutrition
The Baby Friendly Spaces program provides workshops focusing on improving maternal mental health, infant and young child feeding practices, early child stimulation, and parenting skills in the context of complex humanitarian emergencies.
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
Guidance On SBC For Nutrition During Covid-19: Technical Brief
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Social and Behavior Change and Gender
Adolescent NutritionBreastfeedingCOVID-19Infant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)Maternal Nutrition
This short guide includes important considerations, messaging, and resources to support country programs in adapting nutrition Social and Behavior Change (SBC) programming in response to the challenges presented by COVID-19.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Creating Demand for Multiple Micronutrient Supplements (MMS): A Mini Guide
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Monitoring, Evaluation, and LearningNutrition and Health SystemsSocial and Behavior Change and Gender
Micronutrient InterventionsMaternal Nutrition
Public health practitioners who wish to improve demand for, uptake of, and adherence to multiple micronutrient supplements can look to this guide for assistance. It contains tips categorized into three phases: getting started, project implementation, and monitoring and evaluation.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Factors Associated with Child Stunting, Wasting, and Underweight in 35 Low- and Middle-Income Countries
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Early Childhood DevelopmentNutrition and Health Systems
Economic GrowthMaternal Nutrition
Data from the 2007–2008 Demographic and Health Surveys were used to assess how 26 factors are associated with child stunting, underweight, and wasting.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Early Estimates of the Indirect Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Maternal and Child Mortality in Low-Income and Middle-Income Countries: A Modelling Study
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Early Childhood DevelopmentNutrition in Humanitarian ContextsFood SystemsNutrition and Health Systems
COVID-19Emergency NutritionFood SecurityInfant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)Maternal Nutrition
The authors of this study estimate maternal and child deaths that may result as an indirect consequence of COVID-19 and the disruption the pandemic may cause to health systems and the food supply.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
COVID-19, Maternal and Child Health, Nutrition – What Does the Science Tell Us? A Repository
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Nutrition in Humanitarian ContextsKnowledge Management
COVID-19Infant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)Maternal Nutrition
This regularly updated collection of peer-reviewed journal articles on COVID-19 and maternal and child health and nutrition summarizes current evidence. The collection includes syntheses of key points from recently published articles, as well as observations made by the curators.
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
Behaviors to Improve Nutrition
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Social and Behavior Change and Gender
BreastfeedingInfant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)Maternal Nutrition
This user-friendly tool supports project staff, country offices, USAID staff, and Mission staff when designing, implementing, and evaluating social and behavior change programs for multi-sectoral nutrition. The list of prioritized nutrition-specific behaviors cover six critical areas from diet and care during pregnancy to managing diarrhea and wasting.