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Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Twin Peaks: The Seasonality of Acute Malnutrition, Conflict, and Environmental Factors
Nutrition in Humanitarian Contexts
According to a long-held assumption about the seasonality of food security in Chad, Sudan, and South Sudan, the peak of malnutrition happens at the end of the lean season. This report finds that there are actually two peaks, with the worst occurring at the end of the dry season and a smaller peak at the end of the lean season.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Transfers, Nutrition Programming, and Economic Well-being: Experimental Evidence from Bangladesh
Nutrition in Humanitarian Contexts
Little research has been conducted on how leveraging cash transfers with nutrition interventions could impact household economic well-being. This study examined a program in Bangladesh that offered impoverished women transfers of cash and food with and without nutrition behavior change communication.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
“System of Hunger”: Understanding Causal Disaster Vulnerability of Indigenous Food Systems
Nutrition in Humanitarian Contexts
Indigenous food systems are vulnerable to hazards that cause food insecurity. In indigenous contexts, particular care needs to be taken to account for unique cultural and social systems.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Nutrition in Africa’s Drylands: A Conceptual Framework for Addressing Acute Malnutrition (Draft)
Nutrition in Humanitarian Contexts
East Africa and the Sahel’s drylands present a unique context for implementation. Regime instability, climate change, and shifts in traditional pastoral ways of life mean that stakeholders need a new way to view these regions. This brief examines and expands upon UNICEF’s malnutrition causal framework to respond to these changing circumstances.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Maternal Nutrition Operational Guidance Program Considerations for Low- and Middle-Income Countries
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Nutrition and Health Systems
Developed by USAID’s Maternal and Child Survival Program, this practical guidance document is meant to help ministries of health, nongovernmental organizations, and implementing partners working in low- and middle-income countries design, implement, and strengthen the delivery of maternal nutrition interventions during
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Impact on Child Acute Malnutrition of Integrating a Preventive Nutrition Package into Facility-Based Screening for Acute Malnutrition during Well-Baby Consultation: A Cluster-Randomized Controlled Trial in Burkina Faso
Nutrition and Health SystemsSocial and Behavior Change and Gender
Community management of acute malnutrition (CMAM) is an effective approach for treating acute malnutrition (AM), but low (50 percent) screening levels for AM impede effectiveness of CMAM. Scaling up screening coverage to 90 percent of acutely malnourished children could save 435,000 lives per year.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Facility‐ and Community‐based Delivery of Micronutrient Powders in Uganda: Opening the Black Box of Implementation Using Mixed Methods
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Nutrition and Health SystemsSocial and Behavior Change and Gender
The authors of this study sought to fill a gap in the documentation of lessons learned in micronutrient powder (MNP) implementation programs. To do so, they used a mixed method evaluation to compare community- and facility-based delivery of MNP and document users’ experiences.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Child-Sensitive WASH Composite Score and the Nutritional Status in Cambodian Children
Nutrition and Health Systems
Despite progress in health over the years in Cambodia, the number of malnourished children remains high, which may be associated in part with poor water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) practices.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
If You Can't Measure It, You Can't Improve It: Experiences and Insights on Social Norms Measurement
Monitoring, Evaluation, and LearningSocial and Behavior Change and Gender
Experts from Drexel University, CARE USA, UNICEF, and Emory University presented an overview on the state of social norms measures, building on the recently published guide titled Resources for Measuring Social Norms: A Practical Guide for Implementers.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World 2019: Safeguarding against Economic Slowdowns and Downturns
Nutrition in Humanitarian ContextsKnowledge ManagementMonitoring, Evaluation, and Learning
The 2019 edition of this annual report indicates that the number of people who suffer from hunger, overweight, and obesity continues to rise, while many people also experience moderate food insecurity. New evidence linking economic downturns to food insecurity and malnutrition is highlighted.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Innovations and Tools in Child Growth Measurement and Data Visualization
Knowledge Management
Making the case for why we need better tools to measure child growth, this publication presents promising technological interventions. It also outlines major challenges to reliable and accurate measurement and discusses the pros and cons of tools that might both address these challenges and aid in data visualization.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
The Changing Face of Malnutrition: The State of the World’s Children 2019
Food SystemsKnowledge ManagementMonitoring, Evaluation, and Learning
This year, UNICEF’s flagship report focuses on children, food, and nutrition, providing new data and analysis on malnutrition and making recommendations for keeping food systems anchored in children’s rights.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
The Asia Food Challenge: Harvesting the Future
Food SystemsKnowledge Management
The authoring organizations of this report foresee significant changes to Asia’s food and agricultural landscapes, with food spending expected to increase by around 7 percent per year over the next decade.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Progress in Reducing Child Mortality and Stunting in India: An Application of the Lives Saved Tool
Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning
The Lives Saved Tool (LiST) enables policymakers and technical stakeholders to estimate the impact of scaling up intervention coverage on undernutrition and mortality.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Drivers of Under-Five Stunting Trend in 14 Low- and Middle-Income Countries since the Turn of the Millennium: A Multilevel Pooled Analysis of 50 Demographic and Health Surveys
Monitoring, Evaluation, and LearningSocial and Behavior Change and Gender
Analyzing data from 50 Demographic and Health Surveys in 14 different countries since 2000, the authors of this study sought to detect trends in stunting and potential contributing factors. Their research found a decreasing trend in stunting among all countries.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
The Burden of Child and Maternal Malnutrition and Trends in Its Indicators in the States of India: The Global Burden of Disease Study 1990–2017
Monitoring, Evaluation, and LearningNutrition and Health Systems
To inform subnational nutrition actions in India, researchers analyzed the burden of disease due to malnutrition and trends in malnutrition indicators from 1990 to 2017 in every Indian state as part of Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors Study 2017. Examining trends in relation to
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Food System Transformations: National Actions in a Globalized World
Food Systems
As global and regional events contribute to the rapid transformation of food systems in developing countries, country actors are playing an essential role in shaping the future of their own food systems.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
The State of Food and Agriculture 2019: Moving Forward on Food Loss and Waste Reduction
Food Systems
In 2011, the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) estimated that 30 percent of food is lost or wasted globally.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Guiding Principles for Sustainable Healthy Diets
Food Systems
To celebrate this year’s World Food Day, the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization and the World Health Organization published this document to provide policy recommendations for food systems that are healthy, environmentally friendly, and culturally and economically sustainable.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Empowering Women in Livestock Systems (Infographic)
Food Systems
Around the world women make up two-thirds of livestock keepers, yet they often lack access to and control over these resources. This infographic shows different ways women can be empowered across food systems and provides examples of Feed the Future activities working to do so in a variety of countries.