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Módulo de Formação
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Food Systems
Early Childhood Development
A manutenção de um estado nutricional adequado é um direito humano fundamental, sendo também um pré-requisito para o desenvolvimento económico de um País. Em Moçambique, 43% das crianças menores de cinco anos de idade sofrem de desnutrição crónica, e 6% sofrem de desnutrição aguda (IDS 2011).
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
Review of Evidence of Interventions to Improve Nutrition Outcomes During Climate Shocks and Stressors: Evidence Review Report
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Food Systems
Food SystemsResilience
In April 2022, USAID published its Climate Strategy 2022–2030, The strategy commits USAID to supporting actions across sectors to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and help partner countries adapt to climate impacts and build resilience to climate change.
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
Générer une demande pour une alimentation saine : Guide du marketing social dans le domaine de la nutrition
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Food Systems
Food Systems
Ce guide soutient les planificateurs de programmes de nutrition en définissant, décrivant et expliquant le processus de développement de programmes de haute qualité pour commercialiser des régimes alimentaires sains.
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
Assessing the Performance of National Sentinel Food Lists at Subnational Levels in Six Countries
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Food Systems
Diets
The study analyzed data from seven surveys with 24-hour open dietary recalls to evaluate: (1) the percentage of reported foods that were included in each sentinel food list; (2) whether these lists captured consumption of some food groups better than others and (3) differences between estimates of dietary diversity calculated from all food items mentioned in the open 24-hour recall vs.
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
Generating Demand in Public Sector Nutrition Programmes: A Way Forward
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Food Systems
Behavior Change for Nutrition
Researchers conducted an online survey and in-depth interviews complemented by a document review to test the appropriateness of the Brand and Marketing Best Practices Framework in the public sector nutrition context. Findings show that the application of private sector techniques requires strengthened capacity and donor support.
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
Assessing the Performance of National Sentinel Food Lists at Subnational Levels in Six Countries (Journal Article)
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Food SystemsMonitoring, Evaluation, and Learning
Food Systems
This paper assesses how well national sentinel lists of the most frequently consumed foods in each food group capture data at subnational levels to measure minimum diet diversity (MDD). It found that national sentinel food lists can provide reliable data at subnational levels for most food groups, with some variability by country and sub-region.
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Food Environment Monitoring and Evaluation: Guidance and Tools
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Food Systems
Food Systems
This package helps global development partners working in low- and middle-income countries collect data that assesses the food environment. It includes documentation of a multi-year pilot study in Liberia, Honduras, Nigeria, and Timor-Leste that evaluated seven food environment assessments for their feasibility and acceptability.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Working Within the Food System: Gender Considerations for Achieving Improved Diets
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Food Systems
Food SystemsGender
Investments should improve women’s roles in agriculture and off-farm livelihoods; provide workplace support to offset risks to household nutrition; ensure opportunities for income generation, decision-making, and control over household income; increase access to high-quality social and behavior change activities; and engage men and boys to address gender norms.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Needs Assessment and Design Methodology to Guide Large-Scale Food Fortification and Broader Programming to Improve Diets: Tools 1 and 2 in the LSFF Methodology Series
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Food Systems
Food SystemsMicronutrient Interventions
These resources describe the purpose and target audience for tools to assess diets, markets, and diet cost and affordability; summarize key steps in the methodology; and provide instructions on how to conduct analyses to design large-scale food fortification programming.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Methods, Tools, and Metrics for Evaluating Market Food Environments in Low- and Middle-Income Countries
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Food Systems
Food SecurityPrivate-Sector Engagement
A landscape assessment, ranking exercise, and survey informed a priority list of methods, tools, and metrics to evaluate informal and formal market food environments. Authors advocate for a mixed-methods approach to monitoring and evaluating market food environments.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Generating Demand for Healthy Diets: A Guide to Social Marketing in Nutrition
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Food Systems
Food SafetyFood SecurityFood SystemsPrivate-Sector Engagement
The guide provides practical advice, examples, and resources for planning and executing social marketing campaigns to improve nutrition outcomes.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Designing Effective Nutrition-Sensitive Agriculture Activities: Facilitator's Guide and Slides
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Capacity StrengtheningFood Systems
Nutrition Sensitive Agriculture
This set of design workshop materials helps activity teams develop contextually appropriate, nutrition-sensitive agriculture outcomes, interventions, and indicators. The facilitator’s guide and accompanying slide decks are available in English and French.
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Integration of Food and Nutrition Security into District Medium-Term Development Plans
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Food Systems
Food Systems
Ghana has made some progress towards reducing malnutrition in recent years, but it remains a key development concern and requires a multi-sectoral approach to planning, financing, and coordinating actions to tackle it.
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Nutrition Landscape Mapping: Report on Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Governance in Ghana
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Food Systems
USAID Advancing Nutrition conducted this landscape mapping to understand the processes for multisectoral nutrition governance and to examine the capacity gaps that limit multi-sectoral nutrition programming in metropolitan areas, municipalities, and district assemblies (MMDA).
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
Agriculture, Nutrition, and Health Academy Presentations
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Food SystemsKnowledge Management
Behavior Change for NutritionFood Systems
We delivered these learning labs and poster presentations at the Agriculture, Nutrition, and Health Academy in June 2023 online and in person in Lilongwe, Malawi. Presenters discuss caregiver resources, social and behavior change measurement, and food environment methods and metrics.
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
Improving Diets and Nutrition by Strengthening Food Systems
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Food Systems
Food Systems
Improving the accessibility and affordability of nutritious and safe diets is critical to reducing the global burden of malnutrition. This brief provides an overview of how food systems can be strengthened to improve nutrition, along with resources to support program planning and implementation.
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
Monitoring of Fortified Food Programs at Sales Sites in Honduras: Results Report
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Food Systems
Food Systems
Food fortification is one of the most cost-effective strategies, when correctly implemented and under the appropriate conditions, to address micronutrient deficiencies. Since the 1960s, Honduras has had public health programs for food fortification. However, these programs were not active all the time.
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Análisis Secundario de Datos de La Encuesta de Condiciones de Vida de Honduras-2004 en el Marco del Análisis de la Situación de la Fortificación de Alimentos de Consumo Masivo en Honduras
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Food Systems
Food Systems
En Honduras no se cuenta con datos actualizados sobre la disponibilidad de alimentos en el país, la calidad de la dieta, ni el riesgo de inadecuación de micronutrientes de la población hondureña, por lo tanto con el presente estudio se pretende satisfacer en cierto grado este vacío de información a través del análisis secundario de datos de la Encuesta Nacional de Condiciones de Vida de Hondura
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Monitoreo de los Programas de Alimentos Fortificados en Sitios de Venta en Honduras: Informe de Resultados
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Food Systems
Food Systems
La fortificación de alimentos es una de las estrategias con mejor costo-beneficio, cuando es correcta-mente implementada y bajo las condiciones apropiadas, para hacer frente a las deficiencias de micronu-trientes. Desde los años sesenta, Honduras cuenta con programas de salud pública de fortificación de alimentos. Sin embargo, estos programas no estuvieron activos todo el tiempo.
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Actores Clave en la Fortificación de Alimentos en Honduras: Informe Final
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Food Systems
Food Systems
El objetivo de este estudio, realizado para la Misión de la Agencia de los Estados Unidos para el Desarrollo Internacional (USAID) en Honduras, fue obtener una visión general sobre los distintos actores clave que tienen relación con los programas de alimentos fortificados y la situación de micronutrientes en Honduras para que sea un insumo en la estrategia de abordaje del tema en el país.