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Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
You Say You Want a Data Revolution? Taking on Food Systems Accountability
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Data gaps and limitations hinder food systems learning and accountability. The Food Systems Dashboard improves access to and usage of food systems-related data to inform policies and actions to improve diets, nutrition, livelihoods, and environmental sustainability.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
The Carbon Footprint of Dietary Guidelines Around the World: A Seven Country Modeling Study
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Understanding the carbon footprints of different food-based dietary guidelines can help decision-making that incorporates environmental sustainability.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Food Systems are Responsible for a Third of Global Anthropogenic GHG Emissions
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Building on the Emissions Database of Global Atmospheric Research (EDGAR), a new global food emissions database (EDGAR-FOOD) provides data about greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from the global food system. In 2015, food system emissions represented 34 percent of total GHG emissions, with agriculture, land use, and land-use change activities contributing the most.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Can Agroecology Improve Food Security and Nutrition? A Review
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Food SecurityNutrition Sensitive Agriculture
Evidence suggests that crop diversity, organic soil amendments, and agroforestry have positive impacts on food security and nutrition and that agroecological systems that include multiple components are more likely to produce positive outcomes. Farmer networks and attention to social equity dimensions are also important. This article is behind a paywall.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Nurturing Care during COVID-19: Lessons Learned in 7 Countries
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COVID-19
The pandemic has disrupted efforts to promote and protect nurturing care for young children, while social and economic ramifications have left families needing even more parenting and family support. Speakers discuss emerging lessons from seven programs that prioritize nurturing care and early childhood development. This is a webinar.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Childcare Solutions: Changing Fathers’ Attitudes and Involvement in Care and Early Childhood Education
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Adolescent Nutrition
Incentivizing fathers’ involvement in child-bearing practices can help ensure that children get appropriate care and can help facilitate higher female labor force participation. Speakers discuss policy interventions to influence engagement through behavioral approaches. This is a webinar.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Why We Need to Focus on Quality Care for Women and Newborns
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Infant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)Maternal Nutrition
The Network for Improving Quality Care for Maternal, Newborn and Child Health provides a platform for collaboration and learning across programs and countries.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
The Principles of Nurturing Care Promote Human Capital and Mitigate Adversities from Preconception through Adolescence
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Adolescent NutritionInfant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)
Extending the Nurturing Care Framework from preconception through age 20 in laws, policies, and services improves human capital by promoting resilience and adaptive developmental trajectories and mitigating negative consequences of adversities.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Parenting Interventions to Promote Early Child Development in the First Three Years of Life: A Global Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
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Infant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)
Parenting interventions improve young child socioemotional development and cognitive, language, and motor skills. Interventions also improve parenting knowledge and practices and parent–child interactions and reduce behavioral issues.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Six Years in 60 Minutes: Learning from the HRH2030 Program
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Human Resources for Health in 2030 panelists discuss building, managing, and optimizing the health workforce for improved health outcomes. This is a webinar.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Developing and Implementing Quality Assessment Tools for MNCH in Malawi
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The Malawian Ministry of Health developed quality improvement assessment tools to help health facilities report on adapted Quality of Care standards for maternal and newborn health and pediatric care. Ministry officials share lessons learned in developing and using the tools. This is a webinar.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
How to Work With USAID: Exploring USAID Funding Opportunities
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This series answers frequently asked questions about working with USAID and provides tips and examples on researching funding opportunities, creating a proposal, and building a budget and a monitoring and evaluation plan. This is a webinar.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Distance and Blended Learning, Part 1: An Overview and Introduction to Assessing Resources, Needs, and Capacities
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COVID-19
This guide provides an overview of different kinds of distance and blended learning; insights about the advantages and challenges of each; and tools for conducting inventories, assessments, and surveys prior to implementing virtual training.
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Blended Learning Using Peer Mentoring and WhatsApp for Building Capacity of Health Workers for Strengthening Immunization Services in Kenya
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Peer mentoring for immunization capacity building of maternal and child health nurses using WhatsApp increased mentees' knowledge, skills, and practices; improved engagement with peers; and promoted discussion and learning. Peer mentoring and WhatsApp networking are useful blended learning methods for need-based and individualized capacity building of health workers.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Introduction to Caring for the Caregiver
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Early Childhood Development
The Caring for the Caregiver course helps frontline workers promote caregivers' mental health and emotional well-being by addressing barriers to resources and encouraging self-care and partner and family engagement.
Monitoring and Evaluation Online Course Repository
Program Monitoring and Evaluation: Basic Principles
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Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning
This module provides an overview of the principles and practice of program monitoring and evaluation, with a focus on how to define and measure a program’s success using the appropriate indicators and research design.
Monitoring and Evaluation Online Course Repository
Designing and Implementing Monitoring & Evaluating Systems
Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning
This course teaches participants how to expand program results frameworks and indicators into a well-functioning system of data collection, analysis, interpretation, reporting, and learning. Participants learn a five-step process of establishing an M&E system for a project or program—from defining results frameworks to data collection, analysis, and monitoring outputs.
Monitoring and Evaluation Online Course Repository
Planning for Monitoring and Evaluation
Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning
This course outlines the basics of M&E. Participants learn how to plan for data collection, management, analysis, and use. Participants are guided through the process of creating a project M&E plan. Learners who complete this free online course are eligible to receive a certificate of achievement from the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley.
Monitoring and Evaluation Online Course Repository
Monitoring and Evaluation Practices
Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning
This course outlines the basics of humanitarian and development program M&E. Participants learn how to differentiate between monitoring and evaluation, develop a logical framework (logframe) based on a theory of change to design effective programs, choose appropriate data collection methods, and prepare for and conduct meaningful data analysis and action planning.
Monitoring and Evaluation Online Course Repository
MEAL DPro: Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability and Learning
Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning
This course outlines the fundamentals of program Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability, and Learning (MEAL). Participants learn how to design logic models and frameworks and use MEAL planning tools, such as Performance Management Plans and Indicator Performance Tracking Tables, to collect information and make decisions.