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Ghana Nutrition Assessment, Counseling, and Support (NACS) Training Materials for Facility-Based Service Providers
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Nutrition and Health Systems
Nutrition Assessment, Counseling, and Support (NACS)
This set of training materials provides health care service providers the information needed to implement, monitor, and report on nutrition assessment, counseling, and support in Ghana.
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Focus on Families and Culture: A Guide for Conducting a Participatory Assessment on Maternal and Child Nutrition
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Nutrition and Health Systems
Nutrition Assessment, Counseling, and Support (NACS)
This state-of-the-art, user-friendly guide is for program managers and planners conducting a maternal and child health and nutrition assessments to investigate intra-household roles and influence. The guide introduces a holistic, or systemic, framework that can assist program staff to more effectively identify key priority groups for interventions.
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Cote d’Ivoire Nutrition Counseling Flipchart (Actions Essentielles en Nutrition Plus)
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Nutrition and Health Systems
Nutrition Assessment, Counseling, and Support (NACS)
The Food and Nutrition Technical Assistance Project (FANTA) Project, in collaboration with UNICEF, developed a French-language counseling flipchart that provides health care providers and community workers with a set of visual aids and messages to enhance and facilitate interpersonal communication on a variety of nutrition topics.
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Cote d’Ivoire Nutrition Assessment, Counseling and Support (NACS) Job Aids
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Nutrition and Health Systems
Nutrition Assessment, Counseling, and Support (NACS)
The Food and Nutrition Technical Assistance Project (FANTA) Project, in collaboration with Cote d’Ivoire’s National Nutrition Program, developed nutrition assessment, counseling and support job aids for health facilities providers.
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Advocacy to Reduce Malnutrition: Using PROFILES and Nutrition Costing
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Nutrition and Health Systems
Nutrition Assessment, Counseling, and Support (NACS)
The Food and Nutrition Technical Assistance Project (FANTA) Project has facilitated nutrition advocacy in several countries using a nutrition advocacy tool, PROFILES, and has developed country-specific nutrition costing models. The estimates generated from this tool and models are the cornerstone of this nutrition advocacy process.
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A Cost of The Diet Analysis in Azraq Refugee Camp, Jordan
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Nutrition and Health Systems
Nutrition Assessment, Counseling, and Support (NACS)
International Medical Corps led a training and assessment among Syrian refugees in Azraq Camp in July 2016.
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Literature Review on Effective Food Hygiene Interventions for Households in Developing Countries
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Nutrition in Humanitarian ContextsFood SystemsNutrition and Health Systems
Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH)
In response to increased awareness of foodborne disease in developing countries, the Food and Nutrition Technical Assistance Project (FANTA) Project conducted a literature review to investigate how donors, partners, and programs can reduce this burden at the household level.
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Training Community Volunteers on Nutrition and Hygiene Module Toolkit
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Knowledge ManagementNutrition and Health SystemsSocial and Behavior Change and Gender
Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH)
This toolkit is designed to provide program implementers with training session modules, job aids, and social and behavior change communication materials to help community volunteers and other frontline workers in Kyrgyzstan promote household nutrition and hygiene.
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Toward a Hygienic Environment for Infants and Young Children: A Review of the Literature
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Nutrition in Humanitarian ContextsNutrition and Health SystemsSocial and Behavior Change and Gender
Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH)
This report from the USAID Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene Partnerships and Learning for Sustainability (WASHPaLS) project summarizes a review of the scientific and gray literature, as well as key informant interviews with researchers and field implementers.
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WASH 1,000 Approach Photo-Aid
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Nutrition in Humanitarian ContextsNutrition and Health SystemsSocial and Behavior Change and Gender
Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH)
The WASH 1,000 Photo-Aid depicts a series of behaviors centered on water, sanitation, and hygiene.
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Counselling Cards: Hygiene Practices - Sierra Leone
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Nutrition in Humanitarian ContextsNutrition and Health SystemsSocial and Behavior Change and Gender
Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH)
The Strengthening Partnerships, Results, and Innovations in Nutrition Globally (SPRING) project created of a set of counseling cards to address key complementary feeding and water, sanitation, and hygiene behaviors in Sierra Leone.
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Giving Children the Best Start in Life: Integrating Nutrition and Early Childhood Development Programming within the First 1,000 Days
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Nutrition and Health Systems
This technical note explores the interaction between nutrition and early childhood development during the first 1,000 days, examines how programs are integrating the two areas, and outlines the potential impact that integrated programs can have on improving a child’s growth and development.
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Integrating Food and Nutrition Security and Early Childhood Development in Community Development Programming: Monitoring and Supervision Tool
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Nutrition and Health Systems
This monitoring and supervision tool was largely developed to monitor the integration of food and nutrition security and early childhood development issues (with an emphasis on communicating and playing with children) into community development programming in Uganda.
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Zambia Nutrition Guidelines for Care and Support of People with HIV
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Nutrition and Health Systems
HIV
Zambia’s Ministry of Health, National HIV/AIDS/STI/TB Council, and National Food and Nutrition Commission worked with the Food and Nutrition Technical Assistance Project (FANTA) and other partners to update its guidelines on providing health care for people living with HIV so they reflect updated global and national standards.
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Report on Findings from an Assessment of the Integration of Nutrition into HIV Programs in Selected Facilities and Communities in Haiti
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Nutrition and Health Systems
HIV
The Strengthening Partnerships, Results, and Innovations in Nutrition Globally (SPRING) Project conducted this assessment to (1) better understand the national context of and gaps in HIV and nutrition programming at the facility and community levels, and (2) determine the availability of elements of nutrition programs that are essential for adults and children (i.e., assessment, counseling, dru
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Guide to Screening for Food and Nutrition Services Among Adolescents and Adults Living with HIV
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Nutrition and Health Systems
HIV
This guide provides direction on identifying HIV-infected older adolescents and adults who are most in need of food and nutrition services, including nutrition assessment and counseling, provision of specialized food products, micronutrient supplementation, and food security and livelihood services.
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The Revitalization and Scale‐up of the Baby‐Friendly Hospital Initiative in Malawi
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Nutrition and Health Systems
Breastfeeding
This paper describes the successes, challenges, and lessons learned from the Baby-Friendly Hospital Initiative scale-up in Malawi.
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The Effect of Late Breastfeeding Initiation on Neonatal Mortality: A Model in PROFILES for Country-Level Advocacy
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Nutrition and Health Systems
Breastfeeding
The USAID PROFILES is a set of computer-based models that calculate the estimated impact if malnutrition doesn't improve over a specific time frame.
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National Nutrition Program: Village Volunteer Nutrition Job Aid How to Help Mothers and Young Children Stay Healthy
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Nutrition and Health Systems
Breastfeeding
This job aid, developed for village volunteers, includes information on a variety of nutrition practices for mothers and young children. It provides messaging about the importance of antenatal care, proper nutrition during pregnancy and while breastfeeding, postpartum care and newborn contact, and young child health and nutrition.
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Community Interventions to Promote Optimal Breastfeeding: Evidence on Early Initiation, Any Breastfeeding, Exclusive Breastfeeding, and Continued Breastfeeding
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Nutrition and Health Systems
Breastfeeding
This brief summarizes a review of literature on community breastfeeding support programs to inform the creation and implementation of similar programs. It contains large amounts of information on types of interventions, program designs, and program impacts. The review makes several general recommendations for programs.