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Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Call to Action for Strengthening Nutrition Content in Pre-Service Training
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Capacity Strengthening
Child NutritionInfant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)Maternal NutritionMicronutrient Interventions
Investing in pre-service training is an especially effective and sustainable approach to improving nutrition services at scale. However, it requires a collaborative effort by all stakeholders—government ministries, academic institutions, professional associations, funders, and technical experts—to ensure curricula prepare frontline health workers to deliver quality nutrition services.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Ethnicity, Information and Cooperation: Evidence from a Group-Based Nutrition Intervention
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Capacity Strengthening
Information retention was higher when delivered by someone lower in the ethnic hierarchy while individual contributions to group-owned kitchen gardens increased more when training was delivered by those higher in the hierarchy. Education, group cohesion, and perceived trainer ability also impacted knowledge and contributions.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Comparing Delivery Channels to Promote Nutrition-Sensitive Agriculture: A Cluster-Randomized Controlled Trial in Bangladesh
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Capacity Strengthening
GenderNutrition Sensitive Agriculture
In Bangladesh, delivering nutrition content to couples through female nutrition workers and male agriculture extension workers increased nutrition knowledge, household and individual diet quality, dietary diversity, and women’s empowerment. Training men to deliver nutrition messages may offer opportunities to scale and promote nutrition-sensitive agriculture.
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
Counseling in Growth Monitoring and Promotion: A Rapid Desk Review and Learning Agenda
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Nutrition and Health Systems
Growth Monitoring and PromotionInfant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)
Countries around the world use growth monitoring and promotion (GMP) as an entry point for preventive care and essential child health, nutrition, and development services, however programs have achieved varying levels of quality and success. Given its ubiquity and legacy, recent efforts have been made to rethink strengthening GMP in light of the Sustainable Development Goals.
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Managing Moderate Wasting Using Local Foods: Learning from Case Studies in Nigeria, Senegal, and Uganda Webinar
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According to the 2023 Joint Child Malnutrition Estimates, 31.3 million children have moderate wasting. Despite this significant need, much of the global attention to wasting was focused on its severe form because of the higher associated mortality risk.
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
Renforcement du continuum de soins pour le traitement et la prévention de l’émaciation en République démocratique du Congo
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Nutrition in Humanitarian Contexts
Wasting
Depuis 2019, l’USAID Advancing Nutrition a collaboré avec divers acteurs de la nutrition en République démocratique du Congo (RDC) pour mieux comprendre et documenter les moyens de renforcer le continuum de soins pour le traitement et la prévention de l’émaciation chez les enfants de moins de cinq ans.
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USAID Advancing Nutrition End of Project Event
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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.
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
Effectively Measuring Training: Building Knowledge and Skills for Nutrition Programs
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Capacity Strengthening
Improving the skills and competencies of the global nutrition workforce (e.g., nutrition program managers and technical staff) to design, plan, implement, monitor, and evaluate nutrition services is one of the key capacity gaps that the nutrition sector needs to address to improve the coverage and effectiveness of nutrition service provision and ultimately health and nutrition outcomes.
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Accelerating Anaemia Reduction: The WHO Comprehensive Framework for Action and the Anaemia Action Alliance Webinar
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Monitoring, Evaluation, and LearningMicronutrient Measurement
This webinar will highlight key elements of the WHO comprehensive framework for action, and describe the vision, mission, and activities of the Anaemia Action Alliance.
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
Mesurer le changement social et comportemental dans les programmes de nutrition : Un guide pour les évaluateurs
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Social and Behavior Change and Gender
Behavior Change for Nutrition
Les évaluations de programme jouent un rôle essentiel dans l'amélioration de la qualité et la détermination de l'efficacité des stratégies et des approches de changement social et comportemental (CSC) nécessaires pour atteindre les résultats du programme de nutrition.
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
USAID Advancing Nutrition at the American Society for Nutrition's Nutrition 2023 Conference
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Monitoring, Evaluation, and LearningEvidence Generation
Behavior Change for NutritionFood Systems
These posters were delivered at the American Society for Nutrition's Nutrition 2023 conference. The first reviews a dietary assessment study conducted by the Tanzania Food and Nutrition Centre among of pregnant and lactating women. The objective was to assess micronutrient intake and the prevalence of inadequate intake among non-pregnant, non-lactating women of reproductive age.
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
Multiple Pass 24-Hour Recall for Measuring Children’s Diets: What Subsequent Passes Add in a Standard 24-Hour Recall
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Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning
Infant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)
Some large-scale surveys use a multiple pass inquiry to collect 24-hour food consumption data and estimate minimum dietary diversity (MDD) and other indicators among children 6 to 23 months of age. While the multiple pass approach may ensure a comprehensive recording of intake, a simpler list-based method may be cheaper and faster to administer.
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Sharpening Our Tools: Refining our Approaches to Capacity Strengthening Design and Measurement
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Capacity Strengthening
Strong capacity strengthening design and measurement is the cornerstone of USAID’s localization strategy.
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
Intégrer le genre dans les programmes de nutrition : Guide du programme
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Social and Behavior Change and Gender
Behavior Change for Nutrition
Ce guide est destiné aux planificateurs et aux responsables de la mise en oeuvre des programmes de nutrition qui visent à intégrer le genre dans les activités de nutrition multisectorielles au niveau mondial ou national. Ce guide partage des ressources et des exemples pour intégrer efficacement le genre à chaque phase d'un programme de nutrition.
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
Development Process for the Multi-Sector Nutrition Financial Tracking Tool for Kitui, Kisumu, and Kakamega Counties
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Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning
This deliverable is a tool that was produced by the Kenyan government, with contributions from USAID Advancing Nutrition. The tool is intended to be use used to help counties track their expenditures in order to budget effectively for nutrition programming.
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
Se concentrer sur les normes sociales : Un guide pratique à l’intention des responsables de programme en nutrition pour améliorer l’alimentation des femmes et des enfants
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Social and Behavior Change and Gender
Behavior Change for Nutrition
Les normes sociales influencent la signification et la valeur de la nourriture ainsi que les rôles et les attentes. Ce guide s'adresse aux planificateurs et aux responsables de la mise en oeuvre des programmes de nutrition qui prévoient des activités répondant aux normes dans le cadre de programmes sensibles ou spécifiques à la nutrition.
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Standardizing Content for Digital Tracking and Decision-Support Tools to Improve Growth Monitoring and Promotion Services Webinar
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Nutrition and Health Systems
Digital tools have the ability to improve the quality of growth monitoring and promotion services by increasing health workers' adherence to protocols and guidelines.
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
Услуги по питанию на уровне первичного звена здравоохранени: Роли, обязанности и додипломная подготовкая
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Capacity Strengthening
Nutrition Assessment, Counseling, and Support (NACS)
Квалифицированная рабочая сила имеет решающее значение для предоставления услуг в области питания на переднем крае или на уровне первичной медико-санитарной помощи и, в конечном итоге, для достижения лучших результатов в отношении здоровья.
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
A Guidance Package for Developing Digital Tracking and Decision-Support Tools for Growth Monitoring and Promotion Services
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Nutrition and Health Systems
Behavior Change for NutritionBreastfeedingComplementary FeedingEarly Childhood DevelopmentGrowth Monitoring and PromotionInfant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)
Given the promise of digital tools to improve the quality of GMP services, we developed this guidance package, to facilitate the development of country-specific digital tools for the delivery and supervision of GMP services; save time and resources; reduce duplication of effort, errors, and inconsistencies; and ensure adherence to global guidance.
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
The Ready-to-Use Therapeutic Food Supply Chain in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
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Nutrition in Humanitarian Contexts
Emergency NutritionFood AssistanceInfant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)Wasting
In the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), the large numbers of children with severe wasting have led to an increased demand for ready-to-use therapeutic food (RUTF), the product used to treat children in outpatient care (IPC 2022).