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Women and children are especially vulnerable in emergency settings resulting from natural disaster, conflict, or other protracted challenges. USAID Advancing Nutrition works on two key issues to strengthen nutrition programming in these emergency contexts.

Complementary Feeding in Emergencies

USAID Advancing Nutrition worked in collaboration with the Infant Feeding in Emergencies Cluster to map and identify gaps in available complementary feeding tools and resources and has responded with research and tools to address those gaps. Learn more. 

Nutrition-Sensitive Agricultural Interventions in Protracted Emergencies

USAID Advancing Nutrition worked with USAID implementing partners to better understand where evidence gaps exist for effective nutrition-sensitive agriculture interventions and practices in emergency response and recovery programming (6-18 months duration), particularly in complex and protracted emergency contexts. We documented factors influencing targeted populations to produce, market, purchase, and consume locally grown foods in an effort to capture dietary diversity among children and women of reproductive age in Cameroon and South Sudan. Learn more.

Featured Resources

 
A selection of resources published by USAID Advancing Nutrition

Integrating Complementary Feeding in Emergencies: A Decision Tool for Concrete Actions at Each Stage of the Humanitarian Program Cycle

Brief Global English
A programmatic brief on time points through the program cycle (assessment, situation analysis, programming scope) to incorporate considerations for complementary feeding in emergencies and signposting tools from emergency and non-emergency settings.

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Agriculture in Complex Emergencies: Exploring the Association between Agricultural Programs and Dietary Diversity among Women and Children: A Synthesis of Study Findings from Cameroon and South Sudan

Technical Report Cameroon South Sudan English
The United States Agency for International Development’s (USAID's) Bureau for Humanitarian Assistance (BHA) seeks to improve the impact of emergency-funded agricultural activities on nutritional status, especially that of women and young children.

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Mapping and Gap Analysis of Tools for Complementary Feeding in Emergencies

Technical Report English
Recognizing the importance of protecting, maintaining, and potentially improving the diets of children under the age of two, there has been an increased focus on supporting infant and young child feeding in emergency contexts in recent years.

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Agriculture in Complex Emergencies: Exploring the Association between Agricultural Programs and Dietary Diversity among Women and Children in South Sudan: Study Findings

Technical Report South Sudan English
The United States Agency for International Development’s (USAID's) Bureau for Humanitarian Assistance (BHA) seeks to improve the impact of emergency-funded agricultural activities on nutritional status, especially that of women and young children.

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Complementary Feeding in Emergencies Programming in Myanmar: A Case Study Based on the UNICEF Action Framework

Technical Report Myanmar English
The 2020 UNICEF report titled "Improving Young Children’s Diets during the Complementary Feeding Period" provides an Action Framework to improve the diets of children 6–23 months of age.

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Agriculture in Complex Emergencies: Exploring the Association between Agricultural Programs and Dietary Diversity among Women and Children in Cameroon: Study Findings

Technical Report Cameroon English
The United States Agency for International Development’s (USAID's) Bureau for Humanitarian Assistance (BHA) seeks to improve the impact of emergency-funded agricultural activities on nutritional status, especially that of women and young children.

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Complementary Feeding in Emergencies Programming in Yemen: A Case Study Based on the UNICEF Action Framework

Technical Report Yemen English
The 2020 UNICEF report titled "Improving Young Children’s Diets during the Complementary Feeding Period" provides an Action Framework to improve the diets of children 6–23 months of age.

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News

ENN Field Exchange: Complementary Feeding in Emergencies –Yemen Case Study

This USAID Advancing Nutrition case study on Yemen was featured in a special section of the Emergency Nutrition Network's Field Exchange to highlight the importance of a strong contextual analysis to…
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