On October 4, 2023, USAID Advancing Nutrition hosted an end of project event in Washington, DC to share learning, evidence, and resources to advance multi-sectoral nutrition. Read about how we commemorated five years of global partnerships and impact.
Session Recordings
Marketplace Resources
Resources and tools developed by the project from 2018-2023 and shared in the Marketplace exhibition space are available below.
Household actions alone are insufficient to sustainably reduce malnutrition. Well-considered interventions within the food system can enable household-level actions to improve diets and nutrition through women’s empowerment, agricultural production, and income generation. Explore the resources below to learn more about a food systems approach to improve nutrition, along with evidence and learning.
The first 1,000 days represent a unique opportunity to improve child nutrition and development outcomes but good nutrition is essential throughout the life cycle, including adolescence. High quality services that promote nutrition and nurturing care delivered by strong health systems are critical to ensure that children thrive. Explore the resources below for guidance and tools to improve nutrition and child development through quality nutrition services.
- Strengthening Maternal Nutrition In Health Systems: A Guide For Practitioners
- Program Guidance: Engaging Family Members in Improving Maternal and Child Nutrition
- A Guidance Package for Developing Digital Tracking and Decision-Support Tools for Growth Monitoring and Promotion Services
- Strengthening Counseling through Improved Tools for Health Workers
- Adolescent Nutrition Resource Bank
- Responsive Care and Early Learning Counseling Addendum Package
- Feeding and Disability Resource Bank
- Learning from Health Providers: Quality Counseling for Child Nutrition
- Building the Competency of Health Professionals in the Kyrgyz Republic for the Baby-Friendly Hospital Initiative
- Virtual Convening on Improving Nutrition among Children with Feeding Difficulties and Children with Disabilities
- Supporting Integrated Infant and Young Child Nutrition and Early Childhood Development Programming: Ages and Stages Reference Package and Resource Collection (forthcoming)
Government commitment to improve nutrition is essential for improved health outcomes for everyone. Strong nutrition governance improves the effectiveness, scale-up, and sustainability of nutrition programming and propels countries toward achieving nutrition goals. Explore the resources below to learn more about USAID Advancing Nutrition’s approach to strengthening nutrition governance to improve nutrition.
- Measuring and Monitoring Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Collaboration: Guidance and Considerations
- Transitioning Nutrition Financing from USAID to Domestic Resources: Guidance Note
- SUN Member Advocacy Brief: The Nutrition Policy Marker
- Supporting the Development of Tanzania’s National Resource Mobilization Strategy for Nutrition
- USAID Advancing Nutrition Nigeria State Committee for Food and Nutrition Capacity Assessment Report - Sokoto
- USAID Advancing Nutrition Nigeria State Committee on Food and Nutrition Capacity Assessment Report - Bauchi
- USAID Advancing Nutrition Nigeria State Committee on Food and Nutrition Capacity Assessment Report - Kebbi
- Policy Brief: Kitui County, Demonstrating the Value of Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Investments in Kitui County
- Policy Brief: Kisumu County, Demonstrating the Value of Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Investment
- Policy Brief: Kakamega County, Demonstrating the Value of Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Investments in Kakamega County
Country-led efforts to address malnutrition are critical to achieving durable results that are sustained and strengthened over time. Strengthening the capacity of local actors to implement evidence-informed nutrition programs is an important part of fostering localization and strengthening governments’ commitment to funding nutrition programs. Explore the resources below to learn more about USAID Advancing Nutrition’s approach to strengthening nutrition governance to improve nutrition.
- Effectively Measuring Training: Building Knowledge and Skills for Nutrition Programs
- Defining Social and Behavior Change Competencies for Multi-Sectoral Nutrition: A List for Assessing, Developing, and Evaluating Staff Skills
- Community Health Worker Competency List for Nutrition Social and Behavior Change
- Tool and Guide for Reviewing the Nutrition Content of Pre-Service Training Curricula
- Designing Effective Nutrition-Sensitive Agriculture Activities Workshop: Facilitator's Guide and Slides
- Learning Network on Nutrition Surveillance Convenes Technical Workshop on Innovations in Food and Nutrition Surveillance
- Social and Behavior Change Competency Assessment: Tool for Resilience Food Security Activities
- Competencies: The Building Blocks of Capacity Strengthening Webinar Series
- Strengthening the Capacity of Local Organizations for Nutrition Outcomes: Local Perspectives and Ways Forward Webinar
Addressing malnutrition in fragile contexts resulting from natural disasters, conflict, or protracted crises is a unique challenge. USAID Advancing Nutrition has provided technical assistance to help strengthen the quality of USAID-funded Resilience Food Security Activities that address the immediate, underlying, and root causes of malnutrition and food insecurity in non-emergency contexts and contributed to updated guidance for nutrition programming in emergency contexts. Explore the resources below to learn more about USAID Advancing Nutrition’s work in fragile contexts.
- Food Assistance Modalities
- Social Behavior Change in the Context of Resilience and Food Security Activities (RFSA)
- Social and Behavior Change Competency Assessment: Tool for Resilience Food Security Activities
- Community Health Worker Competency List for Nutrition Social and Behavior Change
- Social and Behavior Change Parameters for RFSAs during Refine and Implement (forthcoming)
- Formative Research to Inform Social and Behavior Change Program Design (forthcoming)
- Handbook on SBC for RFSAs in the Refinement Phase (forthcoming)
- Wasting Prevention And Treatment:
- USAID Nawiri Framework, Kenya
- Strengthening the Continuum of Care for Wasting Management through Coordination and Collaboration: Findings from Facilitated Learning in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
- Promoting a Continuum of Care for Wasted Children: Lessons Learned from Democratic Republic of Congo Webinar
- The Ready-to-Use Therapeutic Food Supply Chain in the Democratic Republic of the Congo: Analysis and Recommendations for Strengthening Last Mile Delivery in Kasaï Oriental and Nord Kivu Provinces
- Managing Moderate Wasting Using Local Foods: Learning from Case Studies in Nigeria, Senegal, and Uganda Webinar
- Management of Moderate Wasting Using Local Foods
- Complementary Feeding in Emergencies
- Mapping and Gap Analysis of Tools for Complementary Feeding in Emergencies
- Complementary Feeding in Emergencies Programming in Myanmar: A Case Study Based on the UNICEF Action Framework | ENN FEX Article
- Complementary Feeding in Emergencies Programming in Yemen: A Case Study Based on the UNICEF Action Framework | ENN FEX Article
- Integrating Complementary Feeding in Emergencies: A Decision Tool for Concrete Actions at Each Stage of the Humanitarian Program Cycle
- Complementary Feeding in Emergencies Programming and Resources Webinar
- Infant and Young Child Nutrition and Early Childhood Development
- Supporting Integrated Infant and Young Child Nutrition and Early Childhood Development Programming: Ages and Stages Reference Package and Resource Collection (forthcoming)
- Optimizing Diets Using Local Foods for Improved Nutrition for Women and Children: A Guide for Resilience Food Security Activity Partners (forthcoming)
- Developing Food-Based Recommendations for Complementary Feeding Using Locally Available Foods at the Household Level in Matabeleland North, Zimbabwe (forthcoming)
- Lipid-based Nutrient Supplements
- Lipid-Based Nutrient Supplements: Evidence and Program Guidance
- Small-Quantity Lipid-Based Nutrient Supplement Program Implementation
- Programming Small-Quantity Lipid-Based Nutrient Supplements: Lessons Learned and Tool to Strengthen Implementation Webinar
- Small-Quantity Lipid-Based Nutrient Supplements: What to Communicate to Program Participants
- Agriculture and Dietary Diversity in Complex Emergencies
- Agriculture in Complex Emergencies: Exploring the Association between Agricultural Programs and Dietary Diversity among Women and Children: A Synthesis of Study Findings from Cameroon and South Sudan
- Agriculture in Complex Emergencies: Exploring the Association between Agricultural Programs and Dietary Diversity among Women and Children in South Sudan: Study Findings
- Agriculture in Complex Emergencies: Exploring the Association between Agricultural Programs and Dietary Diversity among Women and Children in Cameroon: Study Findings
Improving the measurement of healthy diets, micronutrient status, and the burden of micronutrient deficiencies in global and local contexts is critical to ensuring evidence-informed approaches to advance nutrition. Through primary research and secondary analyses, USAID Advancing Nutrition has generated evidence about effective nutrition programs and factors that influence maternal, adolescent, and child nutrition; measurement of the quality and coverage of services; and, monitoring and evaluation practices for programs. Explore the resources below to learn more about USAID Advancing Nutrition’s measurement work.
- Exclusive Breastfeeding: Measurement to Match the Global Recommendation
- Micronutrient Deficiencies among Preschool-Aged Children and Women of Reproductive Age Worldwide: A Pooled Analysis of Individual-Level Data from Population-Representative Surveys
- The Impact of Nutrition-Specific and Nutrition-Sensitive Interventions on Hemoglobin Concentrations and Anemia: A Meta-review of Systematic Reviews
- Determinants of Maternal Diet Quality in Winter in the Kyrgyz Republic
- Building the Competency of Health Professionals in the Kyrgyz Republic for the Baby-Friendly Hospital Initiative
- Implementing Two National Responsibilities of the Revised UNICEF/WHO Baby-Friendly Hospital Initiative: A Two-Country Case Study
- Modeling Food Fortification Contributions to Micronutrient Requirements in Malawi Using Household Consumption and Expenditure Surveys
- Nutritional Care for Children with Feeding Difficulties and Disabilities: A Scoping Review
- Learning From Health System Actor and Caregiver Experiences in Ghana and Nepal to Strengthen Growth Monitoring and Promotion
Quality social and behavior change (SBC) is the thread that ties nutrition sectors and strategies together for improved nutrition. Whether an activity aims to improve the nutritional status of women and children, foster more resilient communities, or increase the availability of safe, affordable, and nutritious foods, people—and what people do—are at the heart of the solution. Explore the resources below to learn more about USAID Advancing Nutrition’s work to improve nutrition through social and behavior change.
- Tools for High-Quality Nutrition Social and Behavior Change Programming
- Focusing on Social Norms: A Practical Guide for Nutrition Programmers to Improve Women’s and Children’s Diets
- Generating Demand for Healthy Diets: A Guide to Social Marketing in Nutrition
- Enabling Better Complementary Feeding Workbook
- Integrating Gender into Nutrition Programs: Program Guide
- Measuring Social and Behavior Change in Nutrition Programs: A Guide for Evaluators
- Infant and Young Child Feeding Image Bank
Micronutrient deficiency, sometimes called “hidden hunger,” refers to deficiencies in iron, zinc, vitamin A, vitamin B12, and folate, among others vitamins and minerals. These deficiencies can result in anemia, compromise immune systems, hinder child growth and development, and limit human capital. Accurate, consistent measurement of anemia and micronutrient deficiencies is critical to addressing and improving nutrition. Learn more about USAID Advancing Nutrition’s work to strengthen micronutrient measurement and programming to reduce anemia prevalence.
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