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USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
Qualitative Study on Skills and Capacity Barriers in Turkana County, Kenya: Study Report
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Nutrition and Health Systems
COVID-19Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH)
Integrated community case management (iCCM) brings identification, treatment, and referral of common childhood illnesses such as pneumonia, diarrhea, malaria, and malnutrition, as well as newborn care to the community. In Kenya, community health volunteers (CHVs) implement iCCM under the guidance of community health extension workers.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Opportunities to Strengthen Maternal Nutrition Programs within Health Systems — Operational Guidance and Country Perspectives
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Nutrition and Health Systems
Maternal Nutrition
Presenters present practical guidance for designing, implementing, and strengthening the delivery of maternal nutrition interventions during pregnancy and lactation, and successes, challenges, and priorities for strengthening interventions at the country level. This is a webinar with accompanying materials.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Weight Gain during Pregnancy in Low- and Middle-Income Countries
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Nutrition and Health Systems
Maternal Nutrition
The report prevents prevalence data and highlights the need to prioritize inadequate weight gain. It presents current data about monitoring and counseling interventions, discusses the impact of maternal balanced energy and protein supplementation on weight gain, and provides recommendations to strengthen interventions.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
How the Marketing of Formula Milk Influences Our Decisions on Infant Feeding
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Nutrition and Health Systems
Breastfeeding
This report exposes the aggressive marketing practices used by the formula milk industry, highlights the effects on women and families, and outlines opportunities for action.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Assessment: Centers of Excellence Model is Strengthening Health Systems in Southeast Asia
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Capacity StrengtheningNutrition and Health Systems
Breastfeeding
The Centers of Excellence (CoE) for Breastfeeding model adds value to government-led efforts to scale up essential newborn care and breastfeeding-friendly health services. Engaging champions, providing high-quality technical assistance, and focusing on integrating CoE principles into national health monitoring systems enable implementation and sustainability.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Translating Multisectoral Nutrition Policy into Community Practice: Participation of Nutrition Officers in Tanzania Fosters Effective Collaborative Strategies to Improve Child Nutrition
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Capacity StrengtheningNutrition and Health Systems
Adolescent NutritionInfant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)
Multidisciplinary action teams bridged communication gaps between administrators and implementers; made progress on advocacy, collaboration, and budgeting for nutrition; and initiated multi-sectoral nutrition (MSN) program implementation in communities. Teams provided actionable guidance for putting MSN policy into practice and leveraging staff capacity.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Improving Treatment of Wasting in Children through iCCM
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Nutrition and Health Systems
Infant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)
Speakers share policy, programmatic, and operational learnings from integrating community-based management of acute malnutrition with integrated community case management. This is a webinar and slide deck presentation.
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Advancements in Understanding Breastmilk: Learning from the BEGIN Project GNCP Webinar
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Nutrition and Health SystemsInfant and Young Child Feeding Recommendations
The Breastmilk Ecology: Genesis of Infant Nutrition (BEGIN) project takes an ecological approach to analyzing the unique biology of human milk by exploring it as a complex biological system.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Women's Nutrition: A Summary of Evidence, Policy, and Practice including Adolescent and Maternal Life Stages
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Nutrition and Health Systems
Adolescent NutritionGenderMaternal NutritionMicronutrient Interventions
A study of evidence, interventions, and guidelines for the nutrition of adolescent girls and women found gaps that include a lack of guidelines on nutrition, preconception nutrition, and assessment of nutritional status.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Programme Guidance on Maternal Nutrition
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Nutrition and Health Systems
Maternal NutritionNutrition Assessment, Counseling, and Support (NACS)
UNICEF provides country teams and their partners with guidance on designing, implementing, and monitoring evidence-based programs to improve women’s nutrition across the life course.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Health and Nutrition Research and Evidence Digest
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Nutrition and Health Systems
COVID-19Emergency NutritionInfant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH)
This edition presents evaluations from various projects, including a nutrition project in Ethiopia, a maternal and child health project in Sri Lanka, and a family planning project in Democratic Republic of the Congo and Somalia.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Field Exchange: Special Issue on Nutrition of Adolescents and School-Aged Children
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Nutrition and Health Systems
Adolescent NutritionMaternal NutritionMicronutrient Interventions
Articles focus on implementing school-based nutrition programs, promoting youth leadership, improving food choices, and supporting pregnant teens.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Counselling to Improve Maternal Nutrition: Considerations for Programming with Quality, Equity and Scale: A Technical Brief
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Nutrition and Health Systems
Adolescent NutritionBreastfeedingEmergency NutritionMaternal NutritionNutrition Assessment, Counseling, and Support (NACS)
This brief outlines approaches to improve the enabling environment for maternal nutrition counseling. Authors review key considerations for the design of counseling services and strategies to strengthen service delivery platforms and build health worker capacity.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Gaps in the Implementation and Uptake of Maternal Nutrition Interventions in Antenatal Care Services in Bangladesh, Burkina Faso, Ethiopia, and India
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Nutrition and Health Systems
Adolescent NutritionBreastfeedingMicronutrient InterventionsNutrition Assessment, Counseling, and Support (NACS)
Nutrition gaps in antenatal care services include lack of specificity in national guidelines and protocols, bottlenecks in micronutrient supplies, low provider knowledge and skills, inadequate supervision to reinforce counseling, and inadequate family engagement. National protocols should be more specific about key nutrition interventions and assign accountability for coverage and quality.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Scoping Review of Intervention Strategies for Improving Coverage and Uptake of Maternal Nutrition Services in Southeast Asia
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Nutrition and Health Systems
AnemiaMaternal NutritionMicronutrient InterventionsNutrition Assessment, Counseling, and Support (NACS)
This review recommends diverse strategies and delivery mechanisms, including health education, supplementation, community participation, and robust health system responses to achieve effective maternal nutrition programs.
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
Growth Monitoring and Promotion in Three Districts of Nepal: A Case Study Narrative
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Nutrition and Health Systems
Growth Monitoring and Promotion
Routine growth monitoring and promotion (GMP) of infants and young children provides frequent contacts with caregivers and can serve as an entry point for other essential nutrition and child health and development services.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Strengthening Maternal Nutrition in Health Programs: A Guide for Practitioners
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Nutrition and Health Systems
Maternal Nutrition
This guide provides recommendations to add and strengthen maternal nutrition components in programs or services delivered by the health system, including actions to strengthen the overall health system and enabling environment. It includes a program planning process and additional information on collecting and synthesizing data.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Series on Adolescent Nutrition
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Nutrition and Health Systems
Adolescent Nutrition
Adolescents have been neglected in national and global nutrition plans and policies. This series highlights the effect of nutrition on adolescent growth and development, the role of the food environment on food choices, and strategies and interventions that may lead to healthy nutrition and growth.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Integrating Early Detection and Treatment of Child Wasting into Routine Primary Health Care Services
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Nutrition and Health Systems
Rapidly scaling wasting services and achieving the wasting Sustainable Development Goals target requires integrating wasting treatment into primary health care services.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Growth Monitoring and Promotion in Northern Ghana: A Case Study Narrative
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Nutrition and Health Systems
Growth Monitoring and Promotion
Growth monitoring and promotion (GMP) is a common platform for delivering child health and nutrition services. This report highlights findings, challenges, good practices, and innovations that stakeholders can use to foster healthy child growth and development.