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.
Workflow for High-Quality Nutrition Social and Behavior Change
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Social and Behavior Change and GenderBehavior Change for Nutrition
Social and behavior change (SBC) is fundamental to achieving positive nutrition outcomes. This workflow diagram will help nutrition planners and practitioners find practical SBC tools to use at each step of a project cycle. The tools and accompanying use case examples will help implementers and planners apply best practice for greater social and behavior change.
Social and Behavior Change Parameters for Resilience and Food Security Activities during Refine and Implement
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Social and Behavior Change and GenderBehavior Change for NutritionProgram DesignResilienceResilience and Food Security Activity (RFSA)
The purpose of this document is to describe USAID Bureau for Humanitarian Assistance (BHA) expectations for how Resilience and Food Security Activities (RFSA) implementing partners (IPs) could address social and behavior change (SBC) in the refine and implement (R&I) phase of the co-creation process with USAID.
Design Innovations Resource Collection: Bringing Emotional Intelligence to Nutrition Social and Behavior Change
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Social and Behavior Change and GenderBehavior Change for Nutrition
If you are a social and behavior change (SBC) professional working within nutrition programs, this resource collection is for you. Access these resources for inspiration and techniques to solve a challenge or “level up” for greater effectiveness in your nutrition program or services.
Key Considerations for Engaging Men in Maternal, Infant, and Young Child Nutrition Programming: A Technical Report for USAID Resilience Food Security Activity Implementing Partners
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Nutrition in Humanitarian ContextsBehavior Change for NutritionGenderProgram DesignResilience and Food Security Activity (RFSA)
This report for USAID Resilience Food Security Activity implementing partners presents 1) common approaches currently used for engaging men in maternal, infant, and young child nutrition programming, 2) findings from the literature and key informant interviews about barriers, and 3) the key considerations for the design, implementation, monitoring, and sustainability of male engagement activiti
USAID Advancing Nutrition: Renforcer les efforts nationaux pour améliorer la nutrition
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Nutrition and Health SystemsAnemia
Cette brochure en français décrit le travail de l'USAID Advancing Nutrition avec le gouvernement du Niger alors qu'il cherche à lutter contre la malnutrition dans le pays.
La Vitamine A est un micronutriment contenu dans les aliments et qui est nécessaire au bon fonctionnement de l’organisme. Le corps humain n’en fabrique pas, ainsi toute la vitamine A dont une personne a besoin doit provenir de son alimentation ou d'autres sources externes comme la supplémentation.
Facteurs influençant l'utilisation des suppléments de fer et de la vitamine A et l'amélioration des pratiques alimentaires: Résultats de la recherche formative à Maradi et Zinder, Niger
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Micronutrient Interventions
L'USAID Advancing Nutrition Niger a mené de la recherche formative dans les régions de Maradi et de Zinder pour mieux comprendre les facteurs qui soutiennent ou inhibent les objectifs souhaités du programme : réduire la prévalence de l'anémie chez les femmes en âge de procréer (FAP) et les adolescents et la carence en vitamine A (VAD) chez les enfants de moins de cinq ans dans les zones d'inter
Food Fortification for Schools in Uganda to Combat Micronutrient Deficiencies or Hidden Hunger in Children and Adolescents: An Advocacy Brief
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Behavior Change for Nutrition
This is an advocacy brief that was developed by USAID Advancing Nutrition Uganda in 2023. It outlines food fortification issues at schools and within institutions in Uganda.
Supporting Children to Thrive: Using the Responsive Care and Early Learning Addendum to Improve Child Nutrition and Development
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Early Childhood DevelopmentEarly Childhood Development
This brief summarizes cross-country learnings around the development, adaptation and implementation of the RCEL Addendum. The goal is to help share lessons learned to inform other programs that may be interested in using the RCEL Addendum and also contribute to the evidence-base about the integration of RCEL with nutrition programs.
USAID Advancing Nutrition Ghana: Strengthening National Efforts to Improve Nutrition
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Nutrition and Health SystemsWasting
This brochure in English describes USAID Advancing Nutrition's work with the government of the Ghana as it seeks to address malnutrition in the country.
USAID Advancing Nutrition Tanzania: Strengthening National Efforts to Improve Nutrition
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Nutrition and Health SystemsWasting
This brochure in English describes USAID Advancing Nutrition's work with the government of Tanzania as it seeks to address malnutrition in the country.
Technical Assistance Provided to the Government of Mozambique
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Nutrition and Health SystemsWasting
This technical brief in English aims to describe USAID Advancing Nutrition’s technical assistance to the government of Mozambique from 2019-2022, including our challenges, lessons learned, and recommendations for future efforts.
Women’s Diets Learning Agenda: Key Learning and Future Directions
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Monitoring, Evaluation, and LearningAdolescent NutritionMaternal Nutrition
In 2020, USAID Advancing Nutrition developed a learning agenda to document global learning, evidence, and innovative practices on how to improve women’s diets, with a focus on pregnant and lactating women. This focus on women’s diets responds to the need to ensure that women and adolescent girls can consume healthy diets and access high-quality health services.
Needs Assessment and Design Methodology to Guide Large-Scale Food Fortification and Broader Programming to Improve Diets: Tools 1, 2, and 3 in the LSFF Methodology Series
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Food SystemsFood Systems
The LSFF Operational Overview describes the purpose and target audience for tools to assess diets, markets, and diet cost and affordability, and summarizes the key steps in the methodology, including a decision tree on how to select existing data to conduct a needs assessment and design/redesign LSFF and broader programming.
Risk Factors for Anemia among Women and Their Young Children Hospitalized with Suspected Thiamine Deficiency in Northern Lao PDR
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Monitoring, Evaluation, and LearningAnemia
Anemia among women of reproductive age and young children remains a major public health concern. This study describes the anemia prevalence among young hospitalized children and their mothers in Northern Lao PDR, and explores possible nutritional causes and risk factors for anemia.