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Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
A Rapid Landscape Review of Postpartum Anaemia Measurement: Challenges and Opportunities
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Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning
AnemiaMicronutrient Interventions
This researcher demonstrates how critical it is to develop common anemia measures for women in the postpartum period and promote rapid uptake and reporting.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Wasting: A Growing Threat to Child Survival
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Knowledge Management
WastingCOVID-19Micronutrient InterventionsWater, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH)
Resources featured in this interactive web page include a framework to address persistent wasting, small-quantity lipid-based nutrient supplement program implementation, blanket supplementary feeding, treating moderate wasting with local foods, providing training for health workers, and strengthening wasting management and the ready-to-use therapeutic food supply chain, among other topics.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Nutrition Governance and Multi-Sectoral Coordination
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Knowledge Management
Nutrition governance requires political will, coordination across multiple sectors, sustainable and transparent financing, and mechanisms to monitor and influence decision-making and policy implementation. This interactive web page showcases work from seven countries.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Leadership Dialogue on Food Systems for People’s Nutrition and Health
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Knowledge Management
Food Systems
This meeting report summaries a dialogue at the first United Nations Food Systems Stocktaking Moment in Rome.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Global Malnutrition Prevention and Treatment Act of 2021 Implementation Plan
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Knowledge Management
WastingBreastfeedingCOVID-19Emergency Nutrition
The Global Malnutrition Prevention and Treatment Act Implementation Plan presents priority technical areas in nutrition; the approach USAID will take to coordinate and collaborate internally and with priority countries, other federal agencies, and partners; and accountability mechanisms.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Research Findings on Resilience & Social Cohesion in Burkina Faso and Niger
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Food Systems
Food SecurityFood SystemsResilience
Deteriorating security impacts food security through loss of access to agricultural and pastoral production areas; disruption of economic activities or loss of livelihoods; reduced access to labor and agricultural inputs; and the closure or limited functioning of health services, schools, and markets.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Global Evidence for Improving Resilience and Food Security: Findings from the REAPER Agriculture-Led Growth and Nutrition-Sensitive Agriculture Evidence Gap Maps
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Food Systems
WastingFood SecurityFood SystemsNutrition Sensitive Agriculture
Implementing partners from the Resilience and Food Security for Programmatic Approaches project present findings from machine learning, comprehensive evidence reviews on agriculture-led growth and nutrition-sensitive agriculture, and new mapping of resilience and water intermediate outcomes to higher-level development objectives. This is a webinar.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Adapting Health Systems to Protect Children from the Impact of Climate Change Series
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Food Systems
Child NutritionFood SystemsResilience
Speakers discuss UNICEF's report on the impacts of heat waves and possible interventions to protect child health, the Children’s Climate Risk Index, and protecting pregnant women and infants against heat stress.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
The Rapid Rise in Domestic Value Chains of Nutrient-Dense Foods (Fruits, Vegetables, and Animal Products) in Sub-Saharan Africa: Policy Implications
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Food Systems
Food Systems
Consumption of nutrient-dense fruits and vegetables and animal products is substantial and growing; while product supply is also growing quickly, it is not much faster than population growth. In some countries, supply growth is driven without nongovernmental organization or company management or government subsidies.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
The Climate-Nutrition Paradox and Unintended Consequences
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Food Systems
Child NutritionFood SecurityFood SystemsGenderMaternal NutritionResilience
Programs must consider unintended consequences of introducing climate-smart agriculture to ensure that marginalized and underrepresented groups are not left more vulnerable to poor nutrition and food insecurity.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Live and Diet
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Food Systems
Food Systems
The Food4HealthyLife calculator shows how switching from the nutritionally poor Western diet to the “optimal diet,” which includes fish, fruits, and vegetables increased estimated life expectancy by 13 years when started at a young age.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Consumer Demand, Food Safety, and Market Systems
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Food Systems
Food SafetyFood SecurityFood SystemsGender
Willingness-to-pay data improve understanding of consumer preferences and contribute to the evaluation of market opportunities for food safety interventions and policy priorities. When consumer willingness to pay provides insufficient incentives for producers, government-driven policy changes may be required.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Pathways From Livestock to Improved Human Nutrition: Lessons Learned in East Africa
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Food Systems
Food SystemsGender
Researchers recommendations include developing tools to fill measurement gaps, creating shorter versions of validated tools, using complexity-aware evaluation methods to capture the interconnected nature of livestock-to-nutrition pathways and shifting livelihoods, and analyzing pathways to better understand linkages.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Food Systems Transformation, Animal-Source Foods Consumption, Inequality, and Nutrition in Myanmar
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Food Systems
Food SystemsNutrition Sensitive Agriculture
Researchers found little change in the quantity of animal-source foods (ASF) consumed between 2010–2015 but substantial composition changes. They also found increasing rural–urban and income-linked inequality in quantities of ASF and associated nutrients consumed and declines in the adequacy of intake of several micronutrients due to the changing composition of ASF.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Giving Children the Best Start in Life: Resources, Experiences, and Lessons Learned from USAID Advancing Nutrition’s Work Integrating Nutrition, Responsive Care, and Early Learning
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Early Childhood Development
Infant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)
USAID Advancing Nutrition speakers discuss why and how they developed the Responsive Care and Early Learning (RCEL) Addendum and the results and lessons learned.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Putting a Price on Nurturing Care
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Early Childhood Development
Gender
Recent research points to the cost-effectiveness of a multicomponent approach that strengthens nurturing care to support early childhood development (ECD) from pregnancy through infancy. Future research should identify the ideal intervention dose and explore ECD and economic outcomes in different socioeconomic groups and among families with varying risk factors.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Pathways to Scale Up Early Childhood Programs: A Scoping Review of Reach Up and Care for Child Development
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Early Childhood Development
Evidence-based early childhood development (ECD) programs that strengthen parenting skills and promote early stimulation are critical investments to reduce intergenerational poverty. but program impact varies. Contextual factors such as infrastructure, social norms, and recipient demand and interest affect outcomes.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Strengthening the Capacity of Local Organizations for Nutrition Outcomes: Local Perspectives and Ways Forward
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Capacity Strengthening
Child NutritionMaternal Nutrition
USAID Advancing Nutrition developed and implemented a learning agenda to collect lessons learned from its support to local organizations. Speakers from Burkina Faso and Kenya share their perspectives on localization and discuss the future of locally-led development. This is a webinar with simultaneous interpretation in French and an accompanying slide deck.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Charting a Path Towards Local Capacity Strengthening: Systems and Tools for Mapping and Planning
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Capacity Strengthening
Speakers discuss tools that catalyze, assess, and monitor local organizational-level capacity strengthening as outlined in USAID’s Local Capacity Strengthening Policy. This is a webinar with simultaneous interpretation in French.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
R4D Launches Two E-Learning Resources to Support Locally-Led Development
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Capacity Strengthening
This toolkit and interactive e-learning course provides instruction about collaborative learning methods and developing skills to effectively facilitate the process and introduce essential elements for successful Collaborative Learning Networks.