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Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Responsive Feeding Recommendations: Harmonizing Integration into Dietary Guidelines for Infants and Young Children
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Infant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)
Evidence-based responsive feeding (RF) recommendations should be incorporated into dietary guidance for infant and young child feeding and grounded in responsive parenting and feeding frameworks.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Early Childhood Development in Humanitarian Standards and Guidance Documents
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Adolescent Nutrition
Many caregivers in crisis settings have fewer resources and less time to provide children with attention and stimulation. Support for physical, mental, and socio-emotional needs and close relationships with nurturing caregivers can mitigate effects of trauma and displacement.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Improving Early Childhood Development in Ecuador
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Acute MalnutritionAdolescent Nutrition
A randomized evaluation found text messages may be effective for communicating information about early childhood development, nutrition, and healthy behaviors.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Global Initiative to Support Parents Call to Action
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Adolescent NutritionCOVID-19
Coalition partners call for an agile, coordinated, and global effort on behalf of all parents and caregivers, including increased investment and scaling of evidence-based initiatives to support caregivers, particularly those who are most vulnerable.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Gender Differences in Child Nutrition Status of Bangladesh: A Multinomial Modeling Approach
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Adolescent Nutrition
A mother’s education level, wealth, early child development, child disability, reading children's books, and diarrhea all had a statistically significant effect on moderate and severe malnutrition for both female and male children.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Improving Health Worker Performance: Lessons from a Global Review of Programs & Malawi's Experience and Learning
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Speakers discuss emerging evidence and guidance on the effectiveness of interventions to improve health worker performance. A representative from the Malawian Ministry of Health shares lessons from a review of programs and the country's experience with improving the quality of health care services. This is a webinar.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Governance in Global Health: Achieving Impact and Sustainability for Integrated Community Case Management
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Coordination and development of integrated community case management (iCCM) requires country leadership and ownership to ensure integration into a national health system's policy and infrastructure. Information generation and sharing, continued external funding, and continued integration of disease-specific stovepipes to facilitate funding and programming are critical. This is a webinar.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Remote Coaching Orientation Module 3
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This e-learning module discusses how to adapt to remote coaching situations, and the technology, skills, and platforms needed to effectively deliver remote coaching.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Distance and Blended Learning Guide: Parts 1&2
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The guide provides tools for implementers to shift trainings to a virtual format and discusses how to assess training resources, participant needs, technology access and skills, and impacts and outcomes.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Evidence on Child Nutrition Recommendations and Challenges in Crisis Settings: A Scoping Review
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Nutrition in Humanitarian Contexts
Adolescent Nutrition
Evidence demonstrates the effects of crises on nutritional status, diet intake, anthropometric failure, and long-term child development, but shows that crisis-related interventions improve nutrition-related knowledge and practices.
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
USAID Food Fortification: Supporting Productive and Prosperous Futures
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Knowledge Management
Adolescent NutritionFood Security
This video shows how USAID has supported 34 countries around the world with food fortification to ensure families can access essential nutrients during times of crises to protect the health of future generations.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
The First Food-Systems: The Importance of Breastfeeding in Global Food Systems Discussions
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Food Systems
Breastfeeding
The brief provides recommendations about how stakeholders can include breastmilk in the conceptualization of food systems and ensure women and families have the ability and support to make the best choices for their children, including breastfeeding.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Social Media for Behaviour Change (SM4BC) Toolkit
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Knowledge Management
The toolkit focuses on using social media to encourage behavior change in the context of disaster preparedness and risk reduction. It is available in English and Spanish.
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
Stunting: Considerations for Use as an Indicator in Nutrition Projects
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Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning
Infant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)Maternal Nutrition
This literature review summarizes the strengths and limitations of stunting as an indicator of nutrition interventions’ impact and informed the companion guidance document below, which suggests approaches and indicators for comprehensively and meaningfully measuring the results of nutrition programs.
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
Beyond Stunting: Complementary Indicators for Monitoring and Evaluating USAID Nutrition Activities
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Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning
Infant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)Maternal Nutrition
This guidance document suggests approaches and indicators for comprehensively and meaningfully measuring the results of nutrition programs.
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
Measuring and Monitoring Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Collaboration: Guidance and Considerations
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Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning
Collaboration is integral to improving nutrition outcomes. USAID Advancing Nutrition developed guidance for USAID missions and implementing partners on how to monitor and assess collaboration as part of multi-sectoral nutrition projects.
Adolescent Nutrition Resource Bank
Formative Research Guidance for Adolescent Nutrition
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Nutrition and Health Systems
Adolescent Nutrition
USAID Advancing Nutrition developed this guidance outlining key considerations for conducting formative research on nutrition behaviors with adolescents. Involving adolescents in designing programs and efforts to inform policy empowers them to make decisions about their own well-being and ensures the applicability of results in communities.
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
Conducting Formative Research on Adolescent Nutrition: Key Considerations
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Nutrition and Health SystemsAdolescent Nutrition
Adolescent Nutrition
USAID Advancing Nutrition developed this guidance outlining key considerations for conducting formative research on nutrition behaviors with adolescents. Involving adolescents in designing programs and efforts to inform policy empowers them to make decisions about their own well-being and ensures the applicability of results in communities.
Food Systems Toolkit
Social and Behavior Change Resources for Women's Healthy Diets: 5 Gaps and Recommendations
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Food Systems
This brief outlines five gaps and recommendations in social and behavior change (SBC) resources for women's healthy diets. You can learn more about where more research and tools are needed to guide future SBC investment and programming.
Food Systems Toolkit
Methods, Tools, and Metrics for Evaluating Market Food Environments in Low- and Middle-Income Countries
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Food SystemsConsumer Demand for Healthy Diets
This report highlights 47 existing tools, methods, and metrics that are suitable for evaluating the food environment in low and middle income countries. You can learn more about which assessments are relevant for your program context.