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.
Activities
Browse a selection of 93 activities from our Focus Area technical teams.
Complementary Feeding in Emergencies
Nutrition in Humanitarian Contexts Improving Women and Children’s Diets in Emergency Contexts
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. In 2020, the Emergency Nutrition Network published …
Using Human-Centered Design Research Methods to Inform Social and Behavior Change Activities
Social and Behavior Change and Gender Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment
USAID Advancing Nutrition implements social and behavior change (SBC) formative research, using human-centered design approaches to identify priority behaviors and design solutions to improve household nutrition and empower rural women in rural…
Spurring Agricultural Productivity for Improved Nutrition in India
Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment
Jumping back from COVID-19, USAID Advancing Nutrition implements nutrition-sensitive agriculture activities to improve incomes, women’s empowerment, and consumption of healthy diets.
Empowering Local Stakeholders to Implement Nutrition-Sensitive Agriculture Activities
Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment
USAID Advancing Nutrition is supporting Seven Sisters Development Assistance in Assam, India to implement nutrition-sensitive agriculture activities to improve household nutrition.
Learning How to Strengthen Blanket Supplementary Feeding Programming in the Democratic Republic of Congo
Wasting Treatment and Prevention
Blanket supplementary feeding is commonly cited as an approach to prevent wasting in children under five but little is known about the optimal circumstances to implement it in DRC.
Analyzing the Ready-to-use Therapeutic Food Supply Chain in the Democratic Republic of Congo
Wasting Treatment and Prevention
Identifying drivers of cost and differences in performance across supply chain pipelines will inform efforts to strengthen RUTF delivery to treat malnourished children.