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 23 activities from our Focus Area technical teams.

Creating Country-Specific Food Lists to Measure Healthy Diets and Advance Nutrition
Collaborating to facilitate collecting reliable, comparable information on diet quality across country contexts

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

Measuring Consumer Demand for Healthy Diets
Designing and testing indicators to improve programming aimed at increasing consumer demand for healthy foods

Food Processing for Improved Diets
Harnessing the power of food processing to increase the availability of safe, nutritious foods throughout the year.

Understanding Key Dimensions of Food Environments
Enhancing our ability to monitor and evaluate market food environments in low-and-middle income countries to improve diets.

Responding to Social Norms that Influence Food Choices
Nutrition programs should focus on addressing social norms due to the influence they can have on people’s diets.