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USAID Nutrition Resource Hub

Optimizing Local Diets Tool

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The Optimizing Local Diets Tool helps to facilitate dialogue with a multi-disciplinary team and identify locally available, nutrient-dense foods to use in programming.
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Optimizing Diets by Using Local Foods for Improved Nutrition for Women and Children: Overview

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This guide presents a stepwise process for a Resilience Food Security Activity (RFSA) team to apply.
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Optimizing Diets by Using Local Foods for Improved Nutrition for Women and Children: A Guide for Resilience Food Security Activity Partners

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Nutrition in Humanitarian Contexts
This guide aims to support RFSA IPs’ transition from providing resource transfers to using locally available, accessible, and affordable alternatives to sustain nutrition outcomes for women and children under age two. It provides resources, workbooks, templates, and tools with instructions on how to optimize the use of local foods to improve women and children’s nutrition and dietary diversity in…
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Руководство по анализу учебных планов по питанию в додипломной подготовке

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Capacity Strengthening AnemiaInfant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)Nutrition Assessment, Counseling, and Support (NACS)
Качественная предварительная подготовка составляет основу всех услуг в области питания, вооружая медицинских работников компетенциями, необходимыми для предоставления качественных услуг с первого дня работы. Однако информация о питании часто устарела, и ее может быть трудно интегрировать в предварительную подготовку.
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District-Level Food Security and Nutrition Expenditure Analysis in Northern Ghana: Summary Report

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Food Security
This expenditure analysis on food security and nutrition (FSN) aims to broaden the understanding of districts to better leverage existing funding and mobilize additional funding for this program area.
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District-Level Nutrition and Resilience Expenditure Analysis in Northern Ghana: Key Findings and Recommendations

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Food Systems
Ghana has identified nutrition as a cornerstone of its human capital development efforts. To sustain and scale up the country’s efforts to improve the nutritional status of women and children, sustainable funding for effective nutrition and resilience activities at high coverage is needed.
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Orientation Package for State Committees for Food and Nutrition (SCFNs)

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Wasting
The Orientation Package for State Committees for Food and Nutrition (SCFNs), or SCFN Orientation Package, is a comprehensive training package meant to provide SCFNs with an overview of their mandate and roles, as well as key food and nutrition concepts. The package is meant to be used by both SCFN members and trainers working with SCFNs.
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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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District Nutrition Coordination Committee (DNCC) Monitoring and Supportive Supervision Checklist

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Food Systems
District Nutrition Coordination Committees (DNCCs) have the mandate to coordinate multisectoral nutrition efforts at district level. The Monitoring and Supportive Supervision Checklist was developed to support this task.
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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).
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Renforcer la gestion axée sur les résultats dans le domaine de la nutrition au Burkina Faso

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Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning
La malnutrition est un important problème de santé publique au Burkina Faso. S’attaquer à ses causes profondes nécessite l’engagement d’acteurs autres que seulement ceux qui travaillent dans le secteur de la santé.
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Suppléments nutritionnels à base de lipides en petites quantités : Ce qu'il faut communiquer aux participants du programme

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Nutrition in Humanitarian Contexts Infant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)
Cette fiche technique fournit des informations qui aideront les partenaires d'exécution à élaborer des supports de communication pour accompagner la distribution de suppléments nutritionnels à base de lipides en petites quantités (SQ-LNS) pour les enfants âgés de 6 à 24 mois et les femmes enceintes et allaitantes.
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Landscape Analysis of Anemia and Anemia Programming in Northern Ghana

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Anemia
The purpose of this landscape analysis was to better understand the status of anemia, likely causes of anemia, and current anemia programming in the four regions of northern Ghana (Northern, Upper East, Upper West, and North East regions). These regions are often referred to as the Northern Belt.
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Nutrition Training and Supply Needs of 55 Districts in Northern Ghana: A Rapid Assessment

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Infant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)
USAID Advancing Nutrition conducted a rapid assessment in Ghana between March and April 2023 to determine gaps in training and supplies needed for the provision of maternal and child health and nutrition (MCHN) services in the 55 districts in the Northern, North East, Upper East, Upper West, and Savannah regions.
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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.
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Strengthening Results-Based Management for Nutrition in Burkina Faso

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Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning
A learning brief on results-based management (RBM) activities in Burkina Faso. 
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Supporting Integrated Infant and Young Child Nutrition and Early Childhood Development Programming: Ages and Stages Reference Package (Resource Collection)

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Nutrition in Humanitarian Contexts BreastfeedingComplementary FeedingEarly Childhood DevelopmentResilience and Food Security Activity (RFSA)
This package includes four age-specific modules that provide information, at each age/stage, on how children grow and develop, what their feeding and care needs are, and the challenges caregivers face providing optimal care. Each module also provides example activities that programs can do to support targeted nutrition and responsive care and early learning activities at each age/stage.
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Mainstreaming Food and Nutrition Security into Local Government Development Plans: Key Results and Lessons from Northern Ghana

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Wasting
As part of efforts to address malnutrition, USAID Advancing Nutrition supported 17 Metropolitan, Municipal, and District Assemblies (MMDAs) in northern Ghana to develop their 2022–2025 medium-term development plans (MTDPs) and integrate food and nutrition security (FNS) actions into these plans.
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Strengthening Village Savings and Loans Associations and Mother-to-Mother Support Groups to Improve Household Nutrition and Resilience: Key results and lessons from USAID Advancing Nutrition’s work in Northern Ghana

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WastingEconomic GrowthInfant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)
USAID Advancing Nutrition worked with the Government of Ghana to strengthen the capacity of village savings and loans associations (VSLAs) and mother-to-mother support groups (MTMSGs) in 17 districts in northern Ghana to integrate VSLA (village savings and loans associations) with nutrition activities.
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Desk Review of Food Systems Approaches to Support Wasting Reduction

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Nutrition and Health Systems Wasting
As USAID has increased its commitments to invest in wasting, it has raised the importance of reducing wasting through both prevention and treatment. There is potential to help reduce wasting through the food system as several key drivers of wasting are rooted in food systems—namely the immediate driver of unhealthy diets and the underlying driver of household food insecurity.