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Addressing Barriers to Exclusive Breastfeeding: Evidence and Program Considerations for Low- and Middle-Income Countries
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Nutrition and Health Systems
Breastfeeding
This nutrition brief summarizes findings from a review led by the Maternal and Child Survival Program identifying key barriers that impede exclusive breastfeeding during the first six months of life. The brief presents Demographic and Health Survey analyses of three key breastfeeding problems and a compilation of country policies that address exclusive breastfeeding.
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
Addressing Barriers to Exclusive Breastfeeding in Low- and Middle-income Countries: A Systematic Review and Programmatic Implications
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Nutrition and Health Systems
Breastfeeding
The purpose of this systematic review was to determine barriers to exclusive breastfeeding in 25 low- and middle-income countries and discuss implications for programs. Sixteen barriers identified including delivery methods, counseling and support, and knowledge.
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
Adolescent Pregnancy and Its Impact on the Prevalence of Stunting: Programmatic Considerations for Food for Peace Programs that Aim to Reduce Stunting
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Social and Behavior Change and Gender
Adolescent Nutrition
In the countries where the U.S. Agency for International Development Office of Food for Peace implements development and emergency food security activities, data show that adolescent pregnancy is widespread—which increases the risk of childhood stunting and mortality for mothers and children.
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
Adolescent and Women's Nutrition and Anemia Facilitator Guide
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Knowledge ManagementSocial and Behavior Change and Gender
Adolescent NutritionAnemia
This module is intended to prepare facilitators/trainers with technical knowledge and skills to train doctors and nurses about adolescent and women’s nutrition and anemia throughout the life cycle.
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
Understanding the Women's Empowerment Pathway
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Food Systems
Nutrition Sensitive Agriculture
This brief focuses on the importance of the women's empowerment pathway to improve nutritional outcomes through agricultural livelihoods. However, all of the pathways are interrelated. Agricultural activities typically affect more than one pathway and interact with the enabling environment that includes policies, the natural resource base, and cultural practices, among other factors. The pathway…
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
Understanding the Agricultural Income Pathway
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Food Systems
Nutrition Sensitive Agriculture
This brief focuses on the pathway from agricultural income to better diets, health, and nutrition. However, all of the pathways are interrelated. Agricultural activities typically affect more than one pathway and interact with the enabling environment that includes policies, the natural resource base, and cultural practices, among other factors. The agricultural income pathway is not linear; the…
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
Understanding the Food Production Pathway
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Food Systems
Nutrition Sensitive Agriculture
This brief focuses on the pathway from food production to better diets and nutrition, However, all of the pathways are interrelated. Agricultural activities typically affect more than one pathway and interact with the enabling environment that includes policies, the natural resource base, and cultural practices, among other factors. In this brief, vignettes illustrate the potential pathways from…
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
Understanding and Applying Primary Pathways and Principles
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Food Systems
Nutrition Sensitive Agriculture
The pathways and principles explored in this brief provide a summary of the current state of knowledge of ways to use agriculture to improve nutrition. Broadly accepted among development partners, these concepts are based on the best evidence available from the literature on food security, health, and nutrition and are supported by the experiences of field practitioners, including those…
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Doing More with Less: Tools to Help Governments Optimize Nutrition Funding's Impact Webinar
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Government leaders are often faced with tough choices in funding public health programs, including nutrition. Decision-makers need to know how to invest scarce resources to have the greatest impact on malnutrition. Two tools that can help governments optimize resources to reach nutrition targets are Optima Nutrition and MINIMOD.
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Leveraging Agriculture for Nutritional Impact through the Feed the Future Initiative: A Landscape Analysis of Activities Across 19 Focus Countries
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Food Systems
Nutrition Sensitive Agriculture
Between September 2012 and June 2013, SPRING conducted a landscape analysis of activities of the U.S. Government's global hunger and food security initiative, Feed the Future, in 19 focus countries in Africa, Asia, and Latin America, and the Caribbean. This exercise generated a total of 19 country profiles. Each provided a snapshot of the USAID Mission's activities and contexts in the particular…
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
Nutrition-Sensitive Agriculture Training Resource Package
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Food Systems
Nutrition Sensitive Agriculture
The SPRING Nutrition-Sensitive Agriculture Training Resource Package is a collection of our very best training work, including presentations, activities, handouts, and session guides. In this training resource package, you will find the building blocks for creating a nutrition-sensitive agriculture presentation or training program that reaches program leaders, managers, and other decision-makers
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
A User Guide to Context Assessment Tools for Linking Agriculture and Nutrition
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Food Systems
Nutrition Sensitive Agriculture
The aim of this guide is to support context assessment for project design, whether creating new or amending existing projects. It intends to strengthen the links between agricultural interventions and nutritional outcomes. The guide explains the basic steps of context assessment and presents a variety of primary data collection tools.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
The Implications of Three Major New Trials for the Effect of Water, Sanitation and Hygiene on Childhood Diarrhea and Stunting: A Consensus Statement
Early Childhood DevelopmentNutrition in Humanitarian ContextsFood SystemsKnowledge ManagementMonitoring, Evaluation, and LearningNutrition and Health SystemsSocial and Behavior Change and Gender
With the results from the SHINE and WASH Benefits trials demonstrating limited impact of basic water, sanitation, hygiene (WASH) on childhood stunting, what role does WASH now play in multi-sectoral nutrition programming?
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Food Systems and Nutrition E-Consultation: Emerging Evidence and Research Opportunities
Food Systems
To help uncover research gaps in food systems and nutrition, Agrilinks, USAID Advancing Nutrition, and USAID’s Bureau for Food Security hosted an e-consultation in November 2019.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Information Diffusion and Social Norms Are Associated with Infant and Young Child Feeding Practices in Bangladesh
Nutrition and Health SystemsSocial and Behavior Change and Gender
Researchers conducted two rounds of surveys in 2,000 Bangladeshi households to examine the diffusion of infant and young child feeding (IYCF) messaging through interventions targeting mothers’ social networks.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Ethiopian Mothers' Experiences with Micronutrient Powders: Perspectives from Continuing and Noncontinuing Users
Nutrition and Health SystemsSocial and Behavior Change and Gender
To respond to deficiencies in the diets of children 0-23 months old, the Federal Ministry of Health in Ethiopia worked with partner organizations to deliver micronutrient powders (MNP) through health extension workers.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Effects of Nutritional Supplementation and Home Visiting on Growth and Development in Young Children in Madagascar: A Cluster-Randomised Controlled Trial
Nutrition and Health SystemsSocial and Behavior Change and Gender
In this cluster-randomized control trial in Madagascar, researchers assigned 3,738 mothers who were pregnant or had children under 11 months old to five different intervention groups within a larger scale community-based nutrition program.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Degree of Exposure to Interventions Influences Maternal and Child Dietary Practices: Evidence from a Large-Scale Multisectoral Nutrition Program
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Nutrition and Health SystemsSocial and Behavior Change and Gender
Suaahara II is a multi-sectoral program created to combat the high prevalence of maternal and child malnutrition in Nepal. Looking at cross-sectional data from an annual monitoring survey, this review analyzes the association between exposure to Suaahara II and dietary diversity, focusing on three behavior change intervention platforms.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Commonly Applied Social-Behavior Change Techniques Used in Complementary Feeding Programs in Low and Middle Income Countries: A Scoping Review
Nutrition and Health SystemsSocial and Behavior Change and Gender
An examination of literature on complementary feeding interventions in lower- and middle-income countries since 2000, this scoping review considered 64 behavior change interventions. Across the interventions, authors identified 28 out of a possible 93 behavior change techniques (BCTs), estimating effectiveness ratios for each.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Guidance for Assessing Resilience in Market Systems
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Nutrition in Humanitarian Contexts
Resilience has become a high-level objective for many nutrition projects. Though most resilience guidance focuses on the household or community, population-level resilience is heavily reliant on the strength and functionality of market systems through periods of shock or stress.