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Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Distance and Blended Learning Guide: Parts 1&2
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The guide provides tools for implementers to shift trainings to a virtual format and discusses how to assess training resources, participant needs, technology access and skills, and impacts and outcomes.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Evidence on Child Nutrition Recommendations and Challenges in Crisis Settings: A Scoping Review
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Nutrition in Humanitarian Contexts
Adolescent Nutrition
Evidence demonstrates the effects of crises on nutritional status, diet intake, anthropometric failure, and long-term child development, but shows that crisis-related interventions improve nutrition-related knowledge and practices.
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
USAID Food Fortification: Supporting Productive and Prosperous Futures
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Knowledge Management
Adolescent NutritionFood Security
This video shows how USAID has supported 34 countries around the world with food fortification to ensure families can access essential nutrients during times of crises to protect the health of future generations.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
The First Food-Systems: The Importance of Breastfeeding in Global Food Systems Discussions
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Food Systems
Breastfeeding
The brief provides recommendations about how stakeholders can include breastmilk in the conceptualization of food systems and ensure women and families have the ability and support to make the best choices for their children, including breastfeeding.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Social Media for Behaviour Change (SM4BC) Toolkit
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Knowledge Management
The toolkit focuses on using social media to encourage behavior change in the context of disaster preparedness and risk reduction. It is available in English and Spanish.
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
Stunting: Considerations for Use as an Indicator in Nutrition Projects
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Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning
Infant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)Maternal Nutrition
This literature review summarizes the strengths and limitations of stunting as an indicator of nutrition interventions’ impact and informed the companion guidance document below, which suggests approaches and indicators for comprehensively and meaningfully measuring the results of nutrition programs.
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
Beyond Stunting: Complementary Indicators for Monitoring and Evaluating USAID Nutrition Activities
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Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning
Infant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)Maternal Nutrition
This guidance document suggests approaches and indicators for comprehensively and meaningfully measuring the results of nutrition programs.
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
Measuring and Monitoring Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Collaboration: Guidance and Considerations
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Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning
Collaboration is integral to improving nutrition outcomes. USAID Advancing Nutrition developed guidance for USAID missions and implementing partners on how to monitor and assess collaboration as part of multi-sectoral nutrition projects.
Adolescent Nutrition Resource Bank
Formative Research Guidance for Adolescent Nutrition
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Nutrition and Health Systems
Adolescent Nutrition
USAID Advancing Nutrition developed this guidance outlining key considerations for conducting formative research on nutrition behaviors with adolescents. Involving adolescents in designing programs and efforts to inform policy empowers them to make decisions about their own well-being and ensures the applicability of results in communities.
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
Conducting Formative Research on Adolescent Nutrition: Key Considerations
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Nutrition and Health SystemsAdolescent Nutrition
Adolescent Nutrition
USAID Advancing Nutrition developed this guidance outlining key considerations for conducting formative research on nutrition behaviors with adolescents. Involving adolescents in designing programs and efforts to inform policy empowers them to make decisions about their own well-being and ensures the applicability of results in communities.
Food Systems Toolkit
Social and Behavior Change Resources for Women's Healthy Diets: 5 Gaps and Recommendations
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Food Systems
This brief outlines five gaps and recommendations in social and behavior change (SBC) resources for women's healthy diets. You can learn more about where more research and tools are needed to guide future SBC investment and programming.
Food Systems Toolkit
Methods, Tools, and Metrics for Evaluating Market Food Environments in Low- and Middle-Income Countries
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Food SystemsConsumer Demand for Healthy Diets
This report highlights 47 existing tools, methods, and metrics that are suitable for evaluating the food environment in low and middle income countries. You can learn more about which assessments are relevant for your program context.
Food Systems Toolkit
Locally Led Development: Partnering for Improved Nutrition Brief
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Food Systems
This brief draws on lessons learned from a USAID project in Odisha, India to provide recommendations for USAID and other implementing partners on how to partner with local government, systems, and structures to scale nutrition interventions. You can learn about six recommendations on how to build and maintain successful partnerships.
Food Systems Toolkit
The Integral Role of Food Safety in Strengthening Food Systems
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Food Systems
This brief outlines how USAID is promoting adoption of food safety practices within the food system. You can learn more about steps you can take to incorporate food safety into planning and programming.
Food Systems Toolkit
Designing Effective Nutrition-Sensitive Agriculture Activities Workshop: Facilitator's Guide and Slides
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Food Systems
This is a step-by-step guide to help implementing partners design and measure nutrition-sensitive agriculture interventions. You can use it during the start up or working planning phases of a project.
Food Systems Toolkit
Nutrition-Sensitive Agriculture Design Guide Community of Practice
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Food Systems
This is a COP to support implementing partners in preparing to facilitate a workshop to design more effective nutrition-sensitive agriculture interventions. You can access the COP to ask questions, share experiences, and access technical resources related to the guide.
Food Systems Toolkit
Food Systems and Nutrition E-Consultation Report
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Food Systems
This report provides recommendations for decision makers and donors about where more research and investment is needed to bridge existing evidence gaps and reshape food systems to improve health and nutrition. You can learn more about five priority areas for future research.
Food Systems Toolkit
Landscape Assessment: Food Processing in Feed the Future Investments
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Food Systems
This executive summary summarizes findings from an assessment of USAID Feed the Future food processing programs and provides recommendations for how USAID and implementing partners can improve food processing programming for better diets and nutrition. You can learn more about opportunities to improve diet quality within food processing interventions.
Food Systems Toolkit
Data4Diets
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Food Systems
Data4Diets aims to help programmers, researchers, policymakers in accessing and applying diet and food security indicators. You can access their online repository to learn more about which indicators are best suited for your objectives, which data sources are most appropriate, and how the indicators can be used to guide actionable policy.
Food Systems Toolkit
Food Prices for Nutrition
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Food Systems
Food Prices for Nutrition project develops tools and conducts research to help programmers and policymakers access and use food price and diet cost data to design more effective food systems policies and programs for nutrition. You can access a range of publications resources on their website to learn about metrics and how they can be used.