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Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Caregiver Parenting Practices, Dietary Diversity Knowledge, and Association with Early Childhood Development Outcomes among Children Aged 18–29 Months in Zanzibar, Tanzania: A Cross-Sectional Survey
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Early Childhood Development
Infant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)
Researchers found a positive association between the frequency of caregiver-child interactions and knowledge of adequate dietary diversity and early childhood development outcomes. This aligns with global evidence that promoting early stimulation, play and learning opportunities, and dietary diversity can improve developmental outcomes.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Associations between Exclusive Breastfeeding Duration and Children's Developmental Outcomes: Evidence from Siaya County, Kenya
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Early Childhood Development
Breastfeeding
Exclusive breastfeeding in the 3- to 6-month age range has significant positive associations with child development, especially for communication, gross motor skills, and problem solving.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Prioritizing Investments in Pre-Service Health Education in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Human Centered Approach
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Capacity Strengthening
Speakers present a human-centered design approach to strengthen health workforce capacity and a set of educational capacity frameworks that provide operational definitions and criteria for progress to guide investment in pre-service education. This is a webinar.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Building SBC Capacity Focus of Innovative Blended Learning Program in West and Central Africa
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Capacity Strengthening
BreastfeedingCOVID-19Infant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)Maternal Nutrition
The blended learning program, which aims to build capacity to integrate social and behavior change (SBC) into nutrition programs, includes an online course as well as coaching support and live lectures to increase accountability. Despite occasional connectivity issues and a heavy reading load, participants reported learning practical skills, including developing costed SBC action plans.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Translating Multisectoral Nutrition Policy into Community Practice: Participation of Nutrition Officers in Tanzania Fosters Effective Collaborative Strategies to Improve Child Nutrition
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Capacity StrengtheningNutrition and Health Systems
Adolescent NutritionInfant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)
Multidisciplinary action teams bridged communication gaps between administrators and implementers; made progress on advocacy, collaboration, and budgeting for nutrition; and initiated multi-sectoral nutrition (MSN) program implementation in communities. Teams provided actionable guidance for putting MSN policy into practice and leveraging staff capacity.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Nutrition and Climate Change—Current State of Play: Scoping Review
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Nutrition in Humanitarian Contexts
Child NutritionInfant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)Maternal Nutrition
Complex, multi-directional pathways link nutrition and climate change. It is critical for sectors to work together and develop more holistic systematic approaches to address the threats of climate change to healthy and sustainable diets for populations vulnerable to undernutrition and crises.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Strategies for Infant and Young Child Feeding in Climate-Related Emergencies
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Nutrition in Humanitarian Contexts
Food SafetyInfant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)Maternal Nutrition
Experts discuss policies that support women by protecting families from predatory marketing and providing skilled breastfeeding support. They highlight case studies of disaster preparedness that focus on infant feeding safety and discuss strategies to protect and support maternal, infant, and young child nutrition. This is a webinar.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Nutrition Status and Morbidity of Ethiopian Children after Recovery from Severe Acute Malnutrition: Prospective Matched Cohort Study
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Nutrition in Humanitarian Contexts
Wasting
Results support the design of post-discharge interventions to prevent reoccurrence of acute malnutrition, reduce morbidity, and promote catch-up growth. Additional research to identify the appropriate package of post-discharge interventions is important.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Improving Treatment of Wasting in Children through iCCM
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Nutrition and Health Systems
Infant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)
Speakers share policy, programmatic, and operational learnings from integrating community-based management of acute malnutrition with integrated community case management. This is a webinar and slide deck presentation.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
The Ups and Downs of Scaling Up: Advice on Scaling Norms-Shifting Intervention
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Social and Behavior Change and Gender
Gender
Challenges with scaling up interventions include transferring implementation to organizations, addressing pushback to changing norms and shifts in political support, and institutionalizing work within governmental social and behavior change programs.
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
USAID Advancing Nutrition Uganda Fact Sheet
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Knowledge Management
Food Systems
This two-page fact sheet describes USAID Advancing Nutrition's support implementing a two-year multi-sectoral nutrition activity with the Government of Uganda (GOU) and key stakeholders.
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
Experiences Engaging Family Members in Maternal, Child, and Adolescent Nutrition: A Survey of Global Health Professionals
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Social and Behavior Change and Gender
Family members influence maternal, child, and adolescent nutrition and are increasingly engaged in nutrition interventions and research.
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Population-Based Survey Data Use for Improved Nutrition Policies and Programs Webinar
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Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning
Effective programs require accurate and reliable data to inform progress. Tracking nutrition indicators is integral to the success of data-informed decisions for nutrition programs and policies.
Food Systems Toolkit
USAID Large-Scale Food Fortification Programming Guide: Supporting Food Fortification at a Country Level and on a Global Scale
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Food Systems
Large-scale food fortification (LSFF) has been shown to be a cost-effective approach to provide essential vitamins and minerals to households that are unable to access a diverse, healthy diet.
Food Systems Toolkit
Global Individual Food Consumption Data Tool
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Food Systems
The Global Individual Food Consumption Data Tool (GIFT) is an online platform that includes regularly updated data food safety and nutrition data from around the world. You can visit the platform to access quantitative food consumption data from national and local level surveys, food based indicators, and microdata, which can be downloaded for further analysis.
Food Systems Toolkit
DQQ Tools and Data
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Food Systems
The Global Diet Quality project developed the Diet Quality Questionnaire (DQQ), a standardized, easy-to-use, 5-minute survey for collecting comparable food group consumption data. You can visit their website to access the DQQ and other tools to monitor trends and compare diet quality in and across countries and sectors.
Monitoring and Evaluation Online Course Repository
Essential Statistical Concepts for Understanding DHS Program Data
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Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning
The DHS Program’s Essential Statistical Concepts for Understanding DHS Program Data course familiarizes data users with the most commonly used statistics in tables from The DHS Program household-based surveys, including basic calculations, definitions, and considerations for use.
Monitoring and Evaluation Online Course Repository
DHS Dataset Users
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Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning
The DHS Dataset Users (2021 edition) course presents relevant knowledge and skills to understand and use DHS data, and to begin using DHS data for your own analysis. The course will provide an opportunity to practice these skills using standardized DHS model datasets, and provide you with a better understanding of DHS surveys, sample design, and data structure.
Adolescent Nutrition Resource Bank
Adolescent Girl Power Groups in Bangladesh: Placing Gender Equality at the Center of Nutrtion Interventions
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Adolescent Nutrition
The article presents the impact of Adolescent Girl Power Groups (AGPGs) promoted by a multi-year maternal and child health and nutrition project in Thakurgaon district, Bangladesh. The AGPG intervention resulted in improved nutrition practices and in shifting gender power dynamics at household and community levels.
Adolescent Nutrition Resource Bank
Weekly Iron and Folic Acid Supplementation and Nutrition Education for Adolescent Girls
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Adolescent NutritionAnemia
This article summarizes the activities carried out by Nutrition International in six countries with a high burden of anemia in adolescent girls. The program collaborated with governements in various countries and facilitated weekly implementation of iron folic acid supplementation.