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USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
USAID Advancing Nutrition Ghana: Strengthening National Efforts to Improve Nutrition
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Nutrition and Health Systems
Wasting
This brochure in English describes USAID Advancing Nutrition's work with the government of the Ghana as it seeks to address malnutrition in the country.
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
USAID Advancing Nutrition Tanzania: Strengthening National Efforts to Improve Nutrition
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Nutrition and Health Systems
Wasting
This brochure in English describes USAID Advancing Nutrition's work with the government of Tanzania as it seeks to address malnutrition in the country.
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
Technical Assistance Provided to the Government of Mozambique
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Nutrition and Health Systems
Wasting
This technical brief in English aims to describe USAID Advancing Nutrition’s technical assistance to the government of Mozambique from 2019-2022, including our challenges, lessons learned, and recommendations for future efforts.
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
USAID Advancing Nutrition Nigeria: Strengthening National Efforts to Improve Nutrition
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Nutrition and Health Systems
Wasting
This brochure in English describes USAID Advancing Nutrition's work with the government of Nigeria as it seeks to address malnutrition in the country.
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
USAID Advancing Nutrition Mozambique: Strengthening National Efforts To Improve Nutrition
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Nutrition and Health Systems
Wasting
This brochure in English describes USAID Advancing Nutrition's work with the government of Mozambique as it seeks to address malnutrition in the country.
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
USAID Advancing Nutrition Niger: Strengthening National Efforts to Improve Nutrition
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Nutrition and Health Systems
Anemia
This brochure in English describes USAID Advancing Nutrition's work with the government of Niger as it seeks to address malnutrition in the country.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
WHO Guideline on the Prevention and Management of Wasting and Nutritional Oedema (Acute Malnutrition)
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Nutrition and Health Systems
Wasting
Speakers discuss new recommendations for the management of infants at risk of poor growth and development and children with wasting and nutritional edema. This is a webinar. It is available in English, French, and Spanish. An audio recording available in Arabic.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Normative Guidance: WHO Guideline on the Prevention and Management of Wasting and Nutritional Oedema (Acute Malnutrition) in Infants and Children Under 5 Years
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Nutrition and Health Systems
Wasting
The guideline focuses on the management of infants under six months of age at risk of poor growth and development as well as infants and children ages 6–59 months with wasting and/or nutritional edema. It includes post-exit interventions after recovery and prevention strategies.
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
How A Digital Tool May Help Health Workers Improve Growth Monitoring and Promotion and Reduce Malnutrition
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Nutrition and Health Systems
Growth Monitoring and Promotion
USAID Advancing Nutrition developed this guidance package to support the development of a digital tool for growth monitoring and promotion. The package compiles recommendations for growth monitoring and promotion service delivery and business processes and workflows for delivering and supervising these services.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Lessons Learned in Implementing the Low Birthweight Infant Feeding Exploration Study: A Large, Multi-Site Observational Study
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Nutrition and Health Systems
COVID-19Infant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)
Results of research from India, Tanzania, and Malawi showed that hospital-level guidelines and the provision of care for moderately low birthweight infants varied across and within countries. The study supports evidence-based planning of large-scale interventions. Multi-site partnerships in global health research are critical to avoid duplication and build a stronger evidence base.
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
Counseling in Growth Monitoring and Promotion: A Rapid Desk Review and Learning Agenda
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Nutrition and Health Systems
Growth Monitoring and PromotionInfant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)
Countries around the world use growth monitoring and promotion (GMP) as an entry point for preventive care and essential child health, nutrition, and development services, however programs have achieved varying levels of quality and success. Given its ubiquity and legacy, recent efforts have been made to rethink strengthening GMP in light of the Sustainable Development Goals.
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Standardizing Content for Digital Tracking and Decision-Support Tools to Improve Growth Monitoring and Promotion Services Webinar
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Nutrition and Health Systems
Digital tools have the ability to improve the quality of growth monitoring and promotion services by increasing health workers' adherence to protocols and guidelines.
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
A Guidance Package for Developing Digital Tracking and Decision-Support Tools for Growth Monitoring and Promotion Services
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Nutrition and Health Systems
Behavior Change for NutritionBreastfeedingComplementary FeedingEarly Childhood DevelopmentGrowth Monitoring and PromotionInfant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)
Given the promise of digital tools to improve the quality of GMP services, we developed this guidance package, to facilitate the development of country-specific digital tools for the delivery and supervision of GMP services; save time and resources; reduce duplication of effort, errors, and inconsistencies; and ensure adherence to global guidance.
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
Strengthening Counseling Capacity through Supportive Supervision and Mentorship
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Nutrition and Health Systems
Behavior Change for NutritionInfant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)Nutrition Assessment, Counseling, and Support (NACS)
This brief highlights the importance of capacity strengthening approaches, including mentorship and supportive supervision programming, to the provision of quality counseling. USAID Advancing Nutrition has been working to address the needs of health workers through both peer and supervisory support to provide high quality nutrition services, including counseling.
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
Strengthening Counseling through Improved Tools for Health Workers
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Nutrition and Health Systems
Nutrition Assessment, Counseling, and Support (NACS)
This brief discusses the importance of quality tools to support counseling for nutrition/nurturing care and shares tools that can improve client and provider relationships, counseling behaviors, and counselor workloads to improve quality of counseling for nutrition/nurturing care. Overall, it highlights the need to understand and focus on both the client and health worker perspective.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Mothers’ Experience Survey: Improving Newborn Care
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Nutrition and Health Systems
Breastfeeding
Survey findings showed that prolonged skin-to-skin contact almost doubled, and breastfeeding counseling increased to almost 100 percent. Findings have led to stronger enforcement of the national Code of Marketing of Breastmilk Substitute products.
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.