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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 93 activities from our Focus Area technical teams.

Mother feeding child

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 …

Photo of a woman picking greens in her vegetable garden.

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…

Female producer and her husband implement agricultural productivity lessons learned from the horticulture trainings in their garden, as they tend to said garden

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.

USAID Advancing Nutrition local implementer SeSTA supports community cadres to facilitate a training on nutrition-sensitive agriculture which is held outdoors and the participants sit around in a big circle, listening to the instructor.

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.

Photo showing a small child holding a can of food provided food by USAID Africa after thousands displaced from Goma after Volcano eruption.

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.

Photo of a small child being fed a "Ready to Use Therapeutic Food (RUTF)".

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.