USAID Advancing Nutrition develops, curates, packages, and shares multi-sectoral nutrition knowledge to help you stay on top of developments and evidence in global nutrition programming.
Determinants of Under-Nutrition among Children under Five Years of Age in Ethiopia
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Nutrition and Health SystemsFood Security
Responding to the high rate of child undernutrition in Ethiopia, this study analyzed data from Ethiopia’s 2016 Demographic and Health Survey to identify factors associated with undernutrition, including maternal education, source of drinking water, anemic status of the child, and others.
Strengthening Promotion Activities within Growth Monitoring Programs
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Early Childhood DevelopmentNutrition and Health SystemsSocial and Behavior Change and GenderGrowth Monitoring and Promotion
During growth monitoring and promotion, health care workers are meant to provide vital, individualized nutrition and growth counseling to suit each child’s needs. However, too often counseling by frontline workers is inadequate, generic, or even non-existent.
Infant and Young Child Feeding in Emergencies (IYCF-E) East and Southern Africa Capacity Mapping and Assessment Tool
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Nutrition and Health SystemsNutrition in Humanitarian ContextsWastingBreastfeedingInfant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)
Protecting, promoting, and supporting proper infant and young child feeding practices is especially important in emergency contexts with higher rates of child mortality and acute malnutrition.
Food SystemsNutrition and Health SystemsWastingEconomic Growth
With a focus on promoting equality in food and health systems, this year’s report calls on governments, businesses, and civil society to act now to mainstream nutrition into food and health systems.
USAID Stakeholder Community Meeting on COVID-19’s Impacts on Global Nutrition
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Knowledge ManagementNutrition in Humanitarian ContextsCOVID-19Resilience
In April, USAID nutrition leadership came together to discuss ongoing global challenges facing the nutrition sector. Presenters provided insight into how USAID might adapt and prioritize activities in response to COVID-19.
Nutrition in Humanitarian ContextsKnowledge ManagementMonitoring, Evaluation, and LearningCOVID-19Emergency Nutrition
Bringing together development and emergency activity implementers through a peer-to-peer learning series, IDEAL seeks to foster an engaging environment for sharing challenges and strategies for adapting programming during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Measuring Food Insecurity in the Era of COVID-19: Practical Insights from Data Collection Activities in Four Global Contexts
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Food SystemsMonitoring, Evaluation, and LearningCOVID-19
Panelists in this webinar shared how they selected and/or modified experience-based food security metrics for inclusion in household assessments carried out through mobile phones or online platforms.
2020 Severe Malnutrition Non-Technical Learning Series
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Knowledge ManagementMonitoring, Evaluation, and LearningNutrition and Health SystemsWastingBreastfeedingMicronutrient Interventions
In this monthly online learning series from 1,000 Days, subject-matter experts present the latest evidence on severe acute malnutrition. The series is designed to help non-technical audiences inform severe malnutrition policies and advocacy campaigns.
A Review of Research Methods Used to Study Specialised Nutritious Foods
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Nutrition in Humanitarian ContextsMonitoring, Evaluation, and Learning
The authors collected and analyzed research methodologies from 114 studies of programs that used specialized foods to influence anthropometric outcomes. The analysis identified elements of the methodologies that can be strengthened to develop a more rigorous evidence base.
Promoting Child Growth and Development in the Sustainable Development Goals Era: Is It Time for New Thinking?
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Early Childhood DevelopmentMonitoring, Evaluation, and Learning
The authors argue that growth monitoring and promotion programs are needed for routine preventive child health care, but require a paradigm shift to contextualize programs and optimize their implementation for scalability.
A New Statistical Method for Estimating Usual Intakes of Nearly-Daily Consumed Foods and Nutrients through Use of Only One 24-hour Dietary Recall
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Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning
Although published in September, this resource remains one the few that provides information about measuring diets and diet quality. The authors developed a new statistical method to improve p
Mapping Local Patterns of Childhood Overweight and Wasting in Low- and Middle-income Countries between 2000 and 2017
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Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning
Using geospatial estimates of overweight and wasting prevalence among children under 5 in 105 low- and middle-income countries from 2000 and 2017, the authors aggregated these numbers to policy-relevant administrative units.
Food Aid for Nutrition: A Landscape Review of Current Research and Implications for Future Studies
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Nutrition in Humanitarian ContextsMonitoring, Evaluation, and Learning
To highlight key themes and identify under-researched areas in studies that look at specialized nutritious foods, the authors analyzed 142 manuscripts published from January 2011 to July 2018 and 33 clinical trials active as of July 2018.
Examining Coverage, Content, and Impact of Maternal Nutrition Interventions: The Case for Quality-Adjusted Coverage Measurement
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Monitoring, Evaluation, and LearningNutrition and Health SystemsInfant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)
To better understand health system performance and the benefits of accessing antenatal care, the authors adjusted maternity care coverage measures for quality of nutrition interventions in Malawi to determine the impact of infant birth weight and breastfeeding.
Using Health Management Information Systems Data to Contextualize Survey-Based Estimates of Fertility, Mortality, and Wasting
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Monitoring, Evaluation, and LearningNutrition and Health Systems
To better understand the validity of DHS Program estimates and trends of reproductive, maternal, newborn, and child health and nutrition outcomes, the authors examined the use of routine health facility data to contextualize estimates of fertility, maternal mortality, under-5 mortality, and wasting.
United Nations System Standing Committee on Nutrition: Resource List on Food Systems and Nutrition Responses
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Food SystemsKnowledge ManagementMonitoring, Evaluation, and LearningCOVID-19Infant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)
With the COVID-19 pandemic causing disruptions to food systems and food environments, a decline in optimal dietary practices could lead to serious impacts on nutritional status. To address this challenge, this curated list provides up-to-date information focused on nutrition and food systems related to COVID-19.
Protocol for Comparative Evaluation of Blood Sampling Methods and Analytical Devices in the Measurement of Hemoglobin in Population Surveys—A Laboratory Study
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Knowledge ManagementMonitoring, Evaluation, and LearningAnemia
Because anemia is diagnosed by measuring hemoglobin concentration in blood, there is an urgent need to make
Knowledge ManagementMonitoring, Evaluation, and LearningCOVID-19Food SecurityResilienceWater, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH)
The International Food Policy Research Institute is publishing a series of blog posts and continually updating its website with links to provide news and information on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on food security, poverty, and development.
Knowledge ManagementMonitoring, Evaluation, and LearningCOVID-19
How might COVID-19 contribute to global food crises? This year's report aims to answer this question while providing an overview of the global scale of acute hunger. It analyzes factors that contribute to, perpetuate, or deteriorate food crises around the world.
COVID-19: Shocks on Nutrition and Potential Mitigation – USAID Guiding Principles and Recommendations
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Knowledge ManagementMonitoring, Evaluation, and LearningCOVID-19Emergency NutritionFood Security
Summarizing the likely impacts of COVID-19 on nutrition across sectors, this document proposes guiding principles for the response to and recovery from the current crisis. Program designers and implementers can use the document as a framework for advising nutrition.