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Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Global Financing for Nutrition: 45% ≠ 1%
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WastingAdolescent NutritionEconomic GrowthPrivate-Sector Engagement
More than 45 percent of infant and young child deaths are attributable to undernutrition. However, as this article points out, donor funding for nutrition services is less than 1 percent of donor investment in development as a whole. Despite proven solutions to screen and treat children, underfunding hinders large-scale progress with enormous consequences.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
COVID-19 & Nutrition: Crisis and Opportunity
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COVID-19Food Security
As incomes have declined during the pandemic, families cannot afford nutritious foods while producers and sellers struggle to stay afloat. Health systems are overwhelmed, families are reluctant to seek healthcare, and efforts to stop the spread of COVID-19 are decreasing coverage of other life-saving care.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
2021: Make-or-Break Year to Keep Nutrition Promises to Mothers and Children
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WastingAdolescent NutritionBreastfeedingCOVID-19Maternal Nutrition
Fortifying foods with essential vitamins and nutrients, supporting mothers to breastfeed, treating acute malnutrition, and providing nutrient supplements to mothers and children are proven, cost-effective solutions, but this work remains underfunded, limiting the ability to scale interventions.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Minimum Dietary Diversity for Women: An Updated Guide to Measurement: From Collection to Action
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BreastfeedingMaternal Nutrition
Authors discuss high quality methodologies to collect, analyze, interpret, and present data on women’s dietary diversity for use in research, impact assessment, and large-scale health and nutrition surveys.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Healthy Diet: A Definition for the United Nations Food Systems Summit 2021
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Food Safety
This brief places health-promotion, disease prevention, and food safety at the center of defining a healthy diet and urges translation of this definition into specific food-based recommendations.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Harnessing Aquaculture for Healthy Diets
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Food Security
Aquaculture can contribute to building resilient food systems, improving nutrition, and providing employment and export earnings. Aquaculture products should be integrated into agriculture and trade policies, national food-based dietary guidelines, and nutrition and health policies and strategies.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Comprehensive Nutrient Gap Assessment (CONGA): Micronutrient Gaps During the Complementary Feeding Period
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Infant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)
The Comprehensive Nutrient Gap Assessment tool identifies micronutrient gaps and provides guidance about how to use various types of evidence to assess the significance of nutrient gaps in a given population as well as the best sources of those nutrients.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Affordability of Nutritious Foods for Complementary Feeding
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Infant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)
Inadequate quantity and quality of foods during the complementary feeding period impact growth and development and have immediate and long-term consequences. Affordability assessments indicate that liver, small fish, dark green leafy vegetables, milk, and eggs are the most affordable sources to address nutritional shortfalls.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Planting Seeds of Change: Reconceptualizing What People Eat as Eating Practices and Patterns
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While language focusing on food consumption as an individual behavior encourages interventions to educate individuals to make better choices, language of eating practices and patterns invokes a socioecological frame that regards consumption practices as enmeshed within broader social contexts.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
The Quality-of-Care Agenda in Fragile, Conflict-Affected and Vulnerable Settings
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Emergency Nutrition
The World Health Organization worked with partners to develop a technical package that outlines eight interdependent elements for action planning.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Rapid Scale Up Crucial to Meet Humanitarian Needs in Ethiopia’s Tigray: Joint UN-Government Mission
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Emergency Nutrition
The World Food Program is working with the Ethiopian government to improve transportation capacity, deliver humanitarian assistance and emergency food relief, and launch a supplementary feeding program to support nutritionally vulnerable children as well as pregnant and lactating women.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Humanitarian Response Plan - South Sudan
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Emergency Nutrition
Response priorities include reducing morbidity, incidents of human rights violations, and gender-based violence.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Emergency Nutrition Network Field Exchange
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WastingCOVID-19
Focused on wasting, this edition demonstrates the continued innovation and adaptation of nutrition actors to evolving contexts and challenges. A special section highlights the community-based management of acute malnutrition (CMAM) Surge model, a health systems strengthening approach that has shown promise at health facility and district levels.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Caring for the Caregivers: A Path Towards Playful Parenting
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Nutrition Assessment, Counseling, and Support (NACS)
Building frontline worker skills to deliver strengths-based counseling increases caregiver confidence and well-being and helps caregivers develop stress management, self-care, and conflict-resolution skills. This is a webinar.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Influence of Enhanced Nutrition and Psychosocial Stimulation in Early Childhood on Cognitive Functioning and Psychological Well-Being in Guatemalan Adults
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Infant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)
Findings from Guatemala suggest childhood nutritional supplementation and psychosocial stimulation have long-lasting effects on cognitive ability, executive function, and psychological well-being in adults.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Father Involvement in the Care of Children Born Small and Sick in Rwanda: Association with Children's Nutrition and Development
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Infant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)
Paternal involvement in the care of children in rural Rwanda born preterm, low birth weight and/or with hypoxic ischemic encephalopathy is limited. Significant factors associated with father involvement included smaller household size, maternal engagement in decision-making and learning activities, and being on‐track in developmental milestones for problem solving.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Child Health Redesign
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Adolescent NutritionInfant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)Maternal Nutrition
Greater understanding of the interconnectedness of maternal, newborn, child, and adolescent health led the World Health Organization and UNICEF to shift away from an exclusive focus on under-5 survival and toward an integrated ecological life course perspective. Authors call for greater integration of disability in children and adolescents into the global health agenda.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Adapting an Evidence-Based, Early Childhood Parenting Programme for Integration into Government Primary Health Care Services in Rural Bangladesh
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Adolescent Nutrition
Reach-Up and Learn, an evidence-based home-visiting program focused on early childhood development, has been adapted for routine delivery in community clinics. Iterative piloting identified challenges in incorporating the program into existing workloads and promoting mothers' engagement.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Local Means Local: New Tools for Strengthening Community-Led Development
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Recent research about community-led development (CLD) includes analysis of when this model has worked well, its impact on outcomes, and how to adapt existing evaluation methods to capture the complexity and multi-dimensional nature of CLD.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
How to Work with USAID
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USAID representatives discuss agency priorities, the types of partners it supports, and how to find funding opportunities. The goal of the New Partnerships Initiative is to multiply its development impact by elevating local leadership, fostering creativity and innovation, and mobilizing resources across the Agency’s programs. This is a webinar.