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Strengthening Counseling Capacity through Supportive Supervision and Mentorship
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Nutrition and Health Systems
Behavior Change for NutritionInfant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)Nutrition Assessment, Counseling, and Support (NACS)
This brief highlights the importance of capacity strengthening approaches, including mentorship and supportive supervision programming, to the provision of quality counseling. USAID Advancing Nutrition has been working to address the needs of health workers through both peer and supervisory support to provide high quality nutrition services, including counseling.
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
Strengthening Counseling through Improved Tools for Health Workers
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Nutrition and Health Systems
Nutrition Assessment, Counseling, and Support (NACS)
This brief discusses the importance of quality tools to support counseling for nutrition/nurturing care and shares tools that can improve client and provider relationships, counseling behaviors, and counselor workloads to improve quality of counseling for nutrition/nurturing care. Overall, it highlights the need to understand and focus on both the client and health worker perspective.
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
Policy Brief: Kitui County, Demonstrating the Value of Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Investments in Kitui County
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Food Systems
Food Systems
With the support of USAID Advancing Nutrition, county leadership, and nutrition stakeholders, Kitui County developed the county MSN approach, which sets ambitious targets for the scale-up of nutrition interventions over the next five years.
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
Policy Brief: Kakamega County, Demonstrating the Value of Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Investments in Kakamega County
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Food Systems
Food Systems
The Kakamega County stunting level stands at 11.5%, wasting at 1.5%, and underweight at 6.4% (KDHS, 2022). However, the county government demonstrates political commitment for preventing malnutrition by investing in the scale-up of selected high-impact MSN interventions.
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
Integrating Social Norms in Nutrition Programs Ready-to-Use Menu Options for Program Planners
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Social and Behavior Change and Gender
Behavior Change for Nutrition
This menu highlights key components of Focusing on Social Norms: A Practical Guide for Nutrition Programmers to Improve Women’s and Children’s Diets. It is meant to inspire programmers as they consider social norms in nutrition programming and is helpful for all types of programs and activities, whether they are multi-sectoral or focused on food or health systems.
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Behaviors for Better Complementary Feeding: A Recipe for Success! Webinar
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Social and Behavior Change and Gender
During this webinar, we summarized best practices and lessons learned related to SBC for complementary feeding.
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
SUN Member Advocacy Brief: The Nutrition Policy Marker
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Monitoring, Evaluation, and LearningBuilding Global Consensus
The nutrition policy marker is a voluntary, qualitative reporting tool that identifies investments made with a nutrition objective or indicator within any sector. The policy marker tracks investments to projects with a nutrition objective or indicator over time.
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The BOND-KIDS Project: Exploring the Nutritional Ecology of School-Aged Children Webinar
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Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning
The objectives of the BOND-KIDS project are based on the need for better tools to measure the necessity for and functional impact of school-based nutritional interventions on the health and development of school-aged children, ages 5-19.
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
Uganda Close-Out Brochure
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USAID Advancing Nutrition worked in Uganda from June 2021 to September 2023. Using a multi-sectoral approach, the project supported the Government of Uganda to strengthen national efforts in the reduction of micronutrient deficiencies through Large-Scale Food Fortification (LSFF).
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
Policy Brief: Kisumu County, Demonstrating the Value of Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Investments
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Child Nutrition
In Kisumu County, the main determinants of malnutrition are high poverty rates with the urban poverty rate at 70%, coupled with increasing household food insecurity (KDHS 2014).
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
Kenya Close-Out Brochure
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USAID Advancing Nutrition worked in Kenya from August 2020 through September 2023. The project was active in Kakamega, Kisumu, and Kitui Counties as well as at the national level. Our primary objective was to strengthen government capacity to plan, finance, manage, and implement multi-sectoral nutrition interventions to improve the health of populations at risk of nutritional deficiencies.
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
Profiling and Industry Analysis of Fortified and Fortifiable Foods in Uganda
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Micronutrient Interventions
The Ministry of Health (MOH) adopted industrial food fortification as one of its high-impact and cost effective interventions to contribute to the reduction of micronutrient deficiencies.
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
Capacity Needs Assessment for Food Processors of Maize and Wheat Flours, Salt, and Edible Oils and Fats
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Micronutrient Interventions
Micronutrient deficiencies, also known as hidden hunger, remains a public health concern in Uganda, particularly for children under 5 years and women of reproductive age. The Uganda Demographic Survey 2016 rated anaemia at 53 percent; and anaemia at 32 percent among women of reproductive age (15–49 years) and 33 percent for adolescent girls (15–19 years).
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
Capacity Strengthening Plan for the National Working Group on Food Fortification (NWGFF) in Uganda
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Food SystemsMicronutrient Interventions
The Government of Uganda (GOU) spearheaded efforts to reduce micronutrient deficiencies and demonstrated commitment by adopting industrial food fortification as one of the cost-effective interventions to reduce the disease burden in the population.
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
Uganda Business Case Model Report
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Economic GrowthFood SystemsPrivate-Sector Engagement
The report on business modelling for food fortification includes in-depth mapping and analysis of the value chain processes and systems, stakeholders involved, and investments in food fortification which focuses on the required organizational structure; technical personnel; capacity building; and economic incentives and financing (income and costing projects and business financing requirements)
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Uganda National Working Group TOR
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Food SystemsMicronutrient Interventions
The National Working Group on Food Fortification developed a terms of reference (TOR), which articulates the scope of work and sets expectations of the members, the relevant institutions, and the sub-committees to work together and contribute to the reduction of micronutrient deficiencies through implementation of the food fortification program.
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
USAID Nawiri Framework (Resource Collection)
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Nutrition in Humanitarian Contexts
Emergency NutritionNutrition Sensitive AgricultureResilienceResilience and Food Security Activity (RFSA)WastingWater, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH)
This framework was implemented in partnership with the Government of Kenya in Marsabit, Isiolo, Samburu, and Turkana Counties, the USAID Nawiri program is a five-year initiative funded by the USAID Bureau for Humanitarian Assistance (BHA) to sustainably reduce persistent acute malnutrition in Kenya’s arid and semi-arid lands (ASALs).
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Association between Maternal Haemoglobin Concentrations and Maternal and Neonatal Outcomes: the Prospective, Observational, Multinational, INTERBIO-21st Fetal Study
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Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning
AnemiaMaternal Nutrition
Findings suggest an association between maternal hemoglobin and maternal and neonatal outcomes. Using an optimal range of hemoglobin concentrations throughout pregnancy may produce clinical and public health benefits.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Applying Behavioural Science Across the Food System
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Social and Behavior Change and Gender
Successful transition to a more resilient food system requires a better understanding of local contexts, human behavior, and opportunities for change at individual, community, and societal levels. Experts discuss examples of using behavioral science across the food system to improve outcomes. This is a webinar.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Strengthening Social and Behavior Change Programming Through Application of an Adaptive Management Framework: A Case Study in Tanzania
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Social and Behavior Change and Gender
Authors discuss how using the Adaptive Management Framework and the underlying principles of the responsive feedback approach contributed to a project’s success. To be successful, donors and program implementers must ensure sufficient time and resources to adaptive management activities throughout projects and encourage implementers to be open to diverse perspectives.