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.
The Science Behind the First 1,000 Days: Linking Nutrition, Brain Development, and Nurturing Care
Early Childhood Development
In this webinar, Dr. Sarah Cusick, Assistant Professor in the Department of Pediatrics at the University of Minnesota, provided an overview of how nutrient deficiency in the first 1,000 days can lead to long-term dysfunction and how application of the general principles of nutrient and brain interaction can help inform programming.
Nurturing Care Framework for Early Childhood Development: Dissemination and Uptake Since May 2018
Early Childhood Development
One year after WHO, UNICEF, the World Bank, and partners launched the Nurturing Care Framework, they published this report on efforts by countries around the world to adopt it.
Nutrition, Hygiene and Stimulation Education for Impoverished Mothers in Rural Uganda: Effect on Maternal Depression Symptoms and Their Associations to Child Development Outcomes
Early Childhood Development
Maternal depression is linked to poor developmental outcomes in young children.
Improving Parenting Practices and Development for Young Children in Rwanda: Results from a Randomized Control Trial
Early Childhood Development
The first years of life have long-term impacts on children’s development across language, cognitive, social-emotional, and motor domains, yet evidence on critical parent-young child interactions in low-income settings is scarce.
Early Childhood Development and Stunting: Findings from the MAL-ED Birth Cohort Study in Bangladesh
Early Childhood Development
A recent study in Bangladesh, where 36 percent of under‐5 children are stunted, explored the differences in child development between non-stunted and stunted.
Recommendations to tackle malnutrition in all its forms include increasing budgetary allocations for multi-sectoral nutrition plans, enforcing compliance with mandatory food fortification legislation, increasing women’s and girls’ empowerment, and ensuring timely collection of high-quality data.
Integrating Nutrition Services into Health Care Systems Platforms: Where are We and Where Do We Go from Here
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Monitoring, Evaluation, and LearningFood Systems
Papers explore barriers and facilitators to integrating maternal and child nutrition into health care services. Addressing financing, health information systems, health workforce, supplies and technology, governance, and service delivery issues are as critical as engaging in robust implementation science research.
The Science Behind the First 1,000 Days: Linking Nutrition, Brain Development, and Nurturing Care Webinar
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Early Childhood Development
The first 1,000 days spanning roughly between conception and a child’s second birthday is a period of unique development, representing both risk and opportunity.
Building Healthy Communities at Home and Abroad: Catalyzing the Impact of the U.S. Government’s Efforts to Support Breastfeeding Families
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In honor of World Breastfeeding Week and National Breastfeeding Month, the U.S. Government Global Nutrition Coordination Plan hosted an event in Washington D.C on August 2019 to bring together U.S. Government departments and agencies, implementing partners, external stakeholders, civil society, and other breastfeeding advocates to discuss U.S. Government investments in supporting families to…
Improving Nutrition Services in the Care of the Ill and Vulnerable Newborn and Child Webinar
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Join USAID Advancing Nutrition and USAID's MCSP to learn about important outcomes from this workshop and to discuss progress made at the country level to institutionalize and operationalize country action plans.
Nourishing Lives & Building the Future: The History of Nutrition at USAID
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On June 25, 2019, USAID launched a new resource showcasing the Agency's support for various nutrition focus areas, related research, vulnerable populations, and programming approaches over the past 50 years.
Monitoring and Evaluation Online Course Repository
Preparing Data for Impact Analysis
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Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning
This course introduces learners to apply theories of social and behavior change communication and advanced statistical methods to improve the measurement of health communication impact.