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USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
Elevating Nutrition in Pre-Service Training: A Competency-Based Tool to Assess Coverage of Nutrition Content Webinar
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Capacity StrengtheningNutrition and Health Systems
AnemiaBreastfeedingInfant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)Maternal NutritionNutrition Assessment, Counseling, and Support (NACS)
In this webinar experts from three countries discussed the challenges of integrating nutrition into pre-service training and their experiences using this tool to meet some of those challenges. Panelists also discussed how to advocate for improved nutrition content in pre-service training.
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
Formative Assessment: Families Experiencing Labor Migration, Issyk-Kul Oblast, Kyrgyz Republic
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Infant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)Maternal Nutrition
This formative assessment was written by USAID Advancing Nutrition Kyrgyzstan and focuses on the oblast of Issyk-Kul, into which the project has expanded for its final year of implementation.
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
Women’s Diets Learning Agenda: Key Learning and Future Directions
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Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning
Adolescent NutritionMaternal Nutrition
In 2020, USAID Advancing Nutrition developed a learning agenda to document global learning, evidence, and innovative practices on how to improve women’s diets, with a focus on pregnant and lactating women. This focus on women’s diets responds to the need to ensure that women and adolescent girls can consume healthy diets and access high-quality health services.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Opportunities and Barriers for Maternal Nutrition Behavior Change: An In-Depth Qualitative Analysis of Pregnant Women and their Families in Uttar Pradesh, India
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Social and Behavior Change and Gender
BreastfeedingMaternal NutritionMicronutrient Interventions
This research finds that in India, health worker home visits, convenient transportation, and family support facilitated antenatal care checkups and maternal weight-gain monitoring, but limited motivation and understanding of the importance of checkups represent obstacles to such care.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Policy Brief: Kakamega County, Demonstrating the Value of Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Investments in Kakamega County
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Nutrition in Humanitarian Contexts
WastingAdolescent NutritionChild NutritionInfant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)Maternal NutritionMicronutrient Interventions
Leaders and stakeholders in Kakamega County, Kenya, used a multi-sectoral nutrition (MSN) approach to set priority targets for the scale-up of interventions over the next five years. They developed a scorecard that defines targets for each intervention, and includes a monitoring and accountability framework, and outlines the costs of interventions.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
ST4N Impact Report: Fighting for Global Nutrition in an Era of Crises: Impact Report | 2020–2022
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Nutrition in Humanitarian Contexts
Adolescent NutritionChild NutritionCOVID-19Food SecurityFood SystemsGenderMaternal Nutrition
This report summarizes accomplishments of the Standing Together for Nutrition Consortium, included modeling the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on child and maternal nutrition, developing evidence-based recommendations for nutrition policy and funding, advocating for gender-transformative policies, analyzing and reporting on the impact of the war in Ukraine, and measuring the impact of the glo
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Strengthening Counseling through Improved Tools for Health Workers
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Nutrition and Health Systems
Infant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)Maternal NutritionNutrition Assessment, Counseling, and Support (NACS)
This brief discusses the importance of quality tools to support counseling for nutrition and nurturing care and shares tools that can improve client and provider relationships, counseling behaviors, and counselor workloads.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Strengthening Counseling Capacity Through Supportive Supervision and Mentorship
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Nutrition and Health Systems
Infant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)Maternal NutritionNutrition Assessment, Counseling, and Support (NACS)
This brief highlights the importance of capacity strengthening approaches to the provision of quality counseling. It shares lessons learned from efforts to use supportive supervision and mentoring to address health worker needs and provide high quality nutrition services.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Effect of Prenatal Micronutrient-Fortified Balanced Energy-Protein Supplementation on Maternal and Newborn Body Composition: A Sub-Study from the MISAME-III Randomized Controlled Efficacy Trial in Rural Burkina Faso
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Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning
Maternal NutritionMicronutrient Interventions
In Burkina Faso, research on maternal and newborn body composition found that micronutrient-fortified balanced energy-protein supplementation during pregnancy can increase maternal and newborn fat-free mass index without a significant effect on fat-mass index.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
The Climate-Nutrition Paradox and Unintended Consequences
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Food Systems
Child NutritionFood SecurityFood SystemsGenderMaternal NutritionResilience
Programs must consider unintended consequences of introducing climate-smart agriculture to ensure that marginalized and underrepresented groups are not left more vulnerable to poor nutrition and food insecurity.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Strengthening the Capacity of Local Organizations for Nutrition Outcomes: Local Perspectives and Ways Forward
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Capacity Strengthening
Child NutritionMaternal Nutrition
USAID Advancing Nutrition developed and implemented a learning agenda to collect lessons learned from its support to local organizations. Speakers from Burkina Faso and Kenya share their perspectives on localization and discuss the future of locally-led development. This is a webinar with simultaneous interpretation in French and an accompanying slide deck.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Call to Action for Strengthening Nutrition Content in Pre-Service Training
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Capacity Strengthening
Child NutritionInfant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)Maternal NutritionMicronutrient Interventions
Investing in pre-service training is an especially effective and sustainable approach to improving nutrition services at scale. However, it requires a collaborative effort by all stakeholders—government ministries, academic institutions, professional associations, funders, and technical experts—to ensure curricula prepare frontline health workers to deliver quality nutrition services.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Association between Maternal Haemoglobin Concentrations and Maternal and Neonatal Outcomes: the Prospective, Observational, Multinational, INTERBIO-21st Fetal Study
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Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning
AnemiaMaternal Nutrition
Findings suggest an association between maternal hemoglobin and maternal and neonatal outcomes. Using an optimal range of hemoglobin concentrations throughout pregnancy may produce clinical and public health benefits.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Rapid Evidence Assessment on Women’s Empowerment Interventions within the Food System: A Meta-Analysis
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Social and Behavior Change and Gender
Adolescent NutritionChild NutritionGenderMaternal Nutrition
Empowerment interventions improved food security, affordability, and availability while impacts on anthropometrics and diet quality and adequacy were smaller. Multi-component interventions combining a livelihoods component with behavioral change communication appear to be more sustainable than single-focus interventions.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Effects of Engaging Fathers and Bundling Nutrition and Parenting Interventions on Household Gender Equality and Women's Empowerment in Rural Tanzania: Results from EFFECTS, a Five-Arm Cluster-Randomized Controlled Trial
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Social and Behavior Change and Gender
Child NutritionGenderMaternal Nutrition
Engaging fathers and bundling nutrition and parenting programs in Tanzania advanced both gender equality and women’s empowerment more than when community health workers only targeted women.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Improving Maternal and Newborn Health and Survival and Reducing Stillbirth— Progress Report 2023
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Nutrition and Health Systems
BreastfeedingCOVID-19GenderMaternal Nutrition
The report highlights global progress on maternal mortality, neonatal mortality, and stillbirths and presents country efforts to meet global targets. Priority actions include encouraging greater investment, political commitment, and community engagement; strengthening service delivery for quality and respectful care; and building stronger data and information systems.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Focusing on Multiple Micronutrient Supplements in Pregnancy: Second Edition
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Nutrition and Health Systems
AnemiaEmergency NutritionMaternal NutritionMicronutrient Interventions
Articles discuss the benefits of prenatal multiple micronutrient supplements, barriers and enablers to uptake, supplement delivery in humanitarian contexts, accelerating supply to meet future demand, social marketing approaches, the importance of partnerships and fostering an enabling environment, and the impacts of scaling on human capital outcomes, among other topics.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
WHO Calls for Accelerated Action to Reduce Anaemia
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Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning
Adolescent NutritionAnemiaChild NutritionMaternal NutritionMicronutrient Interventions
The World Health Organization anemia framework consolidates evidence, identifies ways to address the direct causes, risk factors, and broad social inequities that are fundamental drivers of anemia, and identifies key action areas for various actors to improve coverage and uptake of interventions.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
USAID Position Paper on Child Wasting
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Knowledge Management
WastingBreastfeedingChild NutritionComplementary FeedingEmergency NutritionFood SafetyFood SystemsGenderInfant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)Maternal NutritionResilienceWater, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH)
Future investments should include strengthening nutrition as part of primary health care, identifying pathways through which food systems most effectively and efficiently prevent child wasting, improving access to ready-to-use therapeutic food for treatment and specialized nutritious food (SNF) for prevention, supporting the development of sustainable financing strategies for health systems and
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
The Healthy Mothers, Healthy Babies Consortium’s 2022 Annual Report
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Knowledge Management
Maternal NutritionMicronutrient Interventions
Key activities this year include engaging national actors to adopt and scale multiple micronutrient supplementation; raising awareness of women’s nutrition challenges; developing strategic partnerships and collaborations across maternal nutrition, health, and related fields; and expanding the consortium’s capacity, expertise, and reach.