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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.

Our Focus Areas

Activities

Browse a selection of 33 activities from our Focus Area technical teams.

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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.

A mother and father feed their infant twins, while their young son looks on and tries to help.

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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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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Understanding Key Dimensions of Food Environments

Food Systems Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning

Enhancing our ability to monitor and evaluate market food environments in low-and-middle income countries to improve diets.

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Integrating Responsive Care and Early Learning in Mozambique

Early Childhood Development Responsive Care and Early Learning Addendum for IYCF Counseling Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning

Integrating responsive care and early learning into existing nutrition programming to improve early childhood development outcomes.

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M&E Online Course Repository and Search Tool

Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning

USAID and other implementing and academic organizations have developed virtual Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning (MEL) courses available to practitioners at no cost.