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Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Is Women’s Empowerment Bearing Fruit? Mapping Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Index (WEAI) Results Using the Gender and Food Systems Framework
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Food Systems
Child NutritionFood SystemsGenderMaternal NutritionWater, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH)
Findings suggest that women’s empowerment contributes to improved diets and nutritional status, especially for children, but that household wealth, social class, and gender norms moderate impacts. Strengthening the evidence base will require more research using experimental and quasi-experimental methods and completing gender-disaggregated analyses.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Food Environment Toolkit to Inform Consumer-Driven Food Market System Programming for Better Maternal and Child Nutrition
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Food Systems
Child NutritionFood SystemsMaternal Nutrition
This toolkit helps market actors understand and develop strategies to address barriers to increasing sales of nutritious foods.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Policies for Optimal Nutrition-Sensitive Options: A Study of Food and Nutrition Security Policies, Strategies, and Programs in Ghana, Kenya, and South Africa
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Food Systems
Adolescent NutritionChild NutritionFood SystemsGenderMaternal NutritionMicronutrient InterventionsNutrition Sensitive Agriculture
Recommendations include conducting research on sustainable funding mechanisms, researching and implementing evidence-based interventions, and identifying indicators to measure the impact of agriculture on nutrition and to ensure the efficient use of resources.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Characteristics of Food Environments that Influence Food Acquisition and Diets of Women in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: A Scoping Review Protocol
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Food Systems
BreastfeedingFood SystemsMaternal Nutrition
This protocol focuses on identifying and mapping characteristics of food environments that influence food acquisition practices and dietary intake among women of reproductive age, especially pre-conception, during pregnancy, and while breastfeeding.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Jalal-Abad TV Spotlights Successful Early Childhood Development Story: Inspiring Early Learning and Responsive Care Practices in the Kyrgyz Republic
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Early Childhood Development
BreastfeedingComplementary FeedingInfant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)Maternal Nutrition
This news segment showcases work that promotes responsive care and early learning, emphasizes efforts to promote good nutrition and feeding practices for mothers and children, and highlights the significance of the critical period from pregnancy through a child’s second birthday to ensure optimal nutrition and growth.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Tool and Guide for Reviewing the Nutrition Content of Pre-Service Training Curricula
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Capacity Strengthening
AnemiaBreastfeedingInfant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)Maternal NutritionMicronutrient InterventionsNutrition Assessment, Counseling, and Support (NACS)
The tool and accompanying guide provide resources for prioritizing cadres of health workers providing frontline nutrition services, identify relevant competencies, determine if the pre-service training curricula address these competencies, and update curricula.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
To Improve Nutrition Outcomes, Increase Support for Health Workers’ Skill Development
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Capacity Strengthening
Adolescent NutritionBreastfeedingGrowth Monitoring and PromotionInfant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)Maternal Nutrition
To detect nutrition issues, support treatment, and facilitate the prevention of malnutrition health workers need the right competencies. Investing in strengthening the nutrition content of pre-service training curricula can have large-scale, sustainable results.
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
Kenya Nutrition Advocacy, Communication, and Social Mobilization Strategy, 2022-2027
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Behavior Change for NutritionChild NutritionCOVID-19Food SystemsGrowth Monitoring and PromotionMaternal NutritionMicronutrient InterventionsNutrition Sensitive AgriculturePrivate-Sector Engagement
The Ministry of Health in collaboration with other Ministries, Departments Agencies, development partners and other key stakeholders have developed the Kenya Nutrition Advocacy, Communication, and Social Mobilisation (ACSM) Strategy (2022–2027).
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
Scoping Review: SBC in Protracted Nutrition Emergencies
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Nutrition in Humanitarian ContextsSocial and Behavior Change and Gender
Adolescent NutritionBehavior Change for NutritionEmergency NutritionInfant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)Maternal NutritionProgram DesignWater, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH)
USAID Advancing Nutrition conducted a scoping review of social and behavior change (SBC) for nutrition in protracted emergencies to help stakeholders in the Bureau for Humanitarian Assistance (BHA). We identified a range of guidance and standards; toolkits; evidence reviews, briefs, and case studies; and project-specific documents.
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
India SBC Rapid Assessment
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Social and Behavior Change and Gender
Behavior Change for NutritionCOVID-19Economic GrowthGenderMaternal Nutrition
USAID Advancing Nutrition conducted social and behavior change (SBC) formative research in the three intervention districts of Tinsukia, Goalpara, and Barpeta in Assam to inform the project’s SBC activities.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Targeted and Innovative Support is Helping Locally Elected Representatives in India Ensure Families Receive Support to Improve Nutrition Outcomes
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Capacity Strengthening
AnemiaGenderMaternal NutritionMicronutrient InterventionsWater, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH)
A new app helps locally elected officials understand the concept of optimal nutrition, learn about public welfare services, understand their role in ensuring that every household can access them, and conduct effective Village Health, Sanitation, and Nutrition Committee meetings.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Women’s Empowerment: An Essential Ingredient for Improved Nutrition in India
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Social and Behavior Change and Gender
WastingAdolescent NutritionChild NutritionCOVID-19GenderInfant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)Maternal NutritionNutrition Sensitive Agriculture
Participants in this study prioritized joint decision-making between women and men about agriculture-related household assets and women’s use of improved practices to grow nutrient-dense vegetables and fruits or to fish for household consumption and sales.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Undernourished and Overlooked: A Global Nutrition Crisis in Adolescent Girls and Women
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Nutrition and Health Systems
Adolescent NutritionAnemiaEmergency NutritionGenderInfant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)Maternal NutritionMicronutrient Interventions
This report examines the current status, trends, and inequities in the nutritional status of adolescent girls and women of reproductive age, and the complex cultural, programmatic, and policy barriers they face in accessing nutritious diets, utilizing essential nutrition services, and benefiting from positive nutrition and care practices.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Antenatal Multiple Micronutrient Supplements Versus Iron-Folic Acid Supplements and Birth Outcomes: Analysis by Gestational Age Assessment Method
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Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning
AnemiaMaternal NutritionMicronutrient Interventions
Trials performing ultrasounds for gestational age assessment found benefits of multiple micronutrient supplements (MMS) on low birthweight, preterm birth, and small for gestational age. These analyses strengthen the evidence for the transition from iron-folic acid supplements to MMS in antenatal care programs.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Coffee and Chai Chat Spotlighting New Global Data and Actions Needed on Hidden Hunger
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Knowledge Management
AnemiaMaternal NutritionMicronutrient Interventions
Experts discuss how to enhance data collection and identify the best sources of information, modeling methods used to derive estimates of micronutrient deficiencies and data gaps, hidden hunger among women, and priorities for action. This is a series of webinars.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Inside Look: How UNICEF is Tackling the Global Nutrition Crisis for Women and Girls
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Knowledge Management
WastingAdolescent NutritionAnemiaCOVID-19Emergency NutritionGenderInfant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)Maternal NutritionMicronutrient Interventions
A UNICEF nutrition specialist discusses breaking the cycle of malnutrition, the importance of addressing dangerous social and gender norms, the role of multiple micronutrient supplements and social protection programs in addressing malnutrition, and how addressing individual nutrition benefits society as a whole.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Building Momentum for Nutrition: Putting Proven Tools to Work
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Knowledge Management
WastingAnemiaBreastfeedingCOVID-19Infant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)Maternal NutritionMicronutrient InterventionsNutrition Assessment, Counseling, and Support (NACS)
This interactive webpage discusses challenges related to addressing nutrition, including COVID-19, climate change, and conflict. It presents cost-effective and evidence-based solutions and tools for ending severe malnutrition, discusses the goals of the Global Malnutrition Prevention and Treatment Act, and highlights USAID MOMENTUM’s work in several countries.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Food Insecurity and Malnutrition in West and Central Africa at 10-Year High as Crisis Spreads to Coastal Countries
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Nutrition in Humanitarian Contexts
WastingChild NutritionCOVID-19Emergency NutritionInfant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)Maternal NutritionPrivate-Sector EngagementWater, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH)
Global acute malnutrition is growing due to the unaffordability of a diversified nutritious diet; conflict; population displacement; and reduced access to social services, farming land, and fodder.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Global Launch of the Nurturing Care Handbook and Practice Guide
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Early Childhood Development
Child NutritionEconomic GrowthInfant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)Maternal Nutrition
The handbook and guide provide practical guidance, training materials, tools, and examples for implementing the Nurturing Care Framework in various settings and strengthen advocacy and capacity strengthening efforts. This is a webinar.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Applying a Systems Thinking Approach to Early Childhood Development
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Early Childhood Development
Child NutritionCOVID-19Infant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)Maternal Nutrition
Speakers discuss how the COVID-19 pandemic, climate change, and other disruptions could prompt innovation and how applying systems thinking could help address longstanding challenges, such as scaling interventions, sustainability, and equity. This is a webinar.