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USAID Advancing Nutrition draws together global nutrition experience to design, implement, and evaluate programs that address the root causes of malnutrition. Working across and through varied sectors, we provide technical support to and implementation of nutrition interventions for USAID and its partners to address the root causes of malnutrition. We also provide technical assistance to USAID to support the implementation of the Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Strategy 2014-2025 in the many countries where USAID works.

Explore our Technical Area Spotlights featuring research and tools from USAID and USAID Advancing Nutrition that can help you adopt proven approaches to reduce malnutrition.

Our Focus Areas

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Capacity Strengthening

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Early Childhood Development

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Food Systems

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Knowledge Management

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Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning

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Nutrition and Health Systems

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Nutrition in Humanitarian Contexts

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Social and Behavior Change and Gender

Activities

Browse a selection of 94 activities from our Focus Area technical teams.

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Measuring Consumer Demand for Healthy Diets

Food Systems Consumer Demand for Healthy Diets

Designing and testing indicators to improve programming aimed at increasing consumer demand for healthy foods

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Partnering for Improved Nutrition

Food Systems Knowledge Management Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning

Lessons and recommendations from the Feed the Future Nutrition Innovation Lab’s 10 years in partnering for improved nutrition

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Creating Country-Specific Food Lists to Measure Healthy Diets and Advance Nutrition

Food Systems Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning

Collaborating to facilitate collecting reliable, comparable information on diet quality across country contexts

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Nutrition Modeling for Improved Program Effectiveness

Knowledge Management Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning

Improving the understanding and use of tools for designing and implementing effective nutrition policies and programs.