USAID Advancing Nutrition develops, curates, packages, and shares multi-sectoral nutrition knowledge to help you stay on top of developments and evidence in global nutrition programming.
A landscape assessment, ranking exercise, and survey informed a priority list of methods, tools, and metrics to evaluate informal and formal market food environments. Authors advocate for a mixed-methods approach to monitoring and evaluating market food environments.
Early Childhood DevelopmentInfant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)
The package includes illustrated counseling cards; training materials; and a guide for planning, adapting, and implementing individual and group counseling sessions. Accompanying videos show real caregiver-child interactions for newborns and young children and counseling sessions between a health worker and caregiver.
Materials in this resource bank help program managers, government leaders, and donor agency staff design and implement effective nutrition programs for children with disabilities. Information focuses on identifying and managing feeding difficulties, identifying disabilities, supporting children with disabilities and their families, and promoting disability inclusion.
Country Profiles Aim to Advance Nurturing Care for Improved Early Childhood Development
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Early Childhood DevelopmentInfant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)
Country profiles present country-level secondary data, policies, and programs focused on improving nutrition and early childhood development outcomes through the provision of nurturing care.
Nutritional Care for Children with Feeding Difficulties and Disabilities: A Scoping Review
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Early Childhood Development
This review offers recommendations including strengthening systems to improve identification and service provision, providing direct support to families to improve nutrition outcomes, engaging in advocacy to raise awareness of needs and opportunities, and building the evidence base on effective interventions.
Tool and Guide for Reviewing the Nutrition Content of Pre-Service Training Curricula
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Capacity StrengtheningAnemiaBreastfeedingInfant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)Maternal NutritionMicronutrient InterventionsNutrition Assessment, Counseling, and Support (NACS)Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH)
These resources can be used to assess and revise nutrition content in pre-service training curricula for health workers who provide frontline nutrition services. It is available in English and Russian.
Effectively Measuring Training: Building Knowledge and Skills for Nutrition Programs
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Capacity StrengtheningBreastfeedingInfant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)
Using best practices from the capacity strengthening field, this brief series guides program managers and technical staff to assess nutrition training programs. Additional briefs explore the challenges of measuring capacity strengthening activities and illustrate measurement tools and approaches at work in Uganda.
Defining Social and Behavior Change Competencies for Multi-Sectoral Nutrition: A List for Assessing, Developing, and Evaluating Staff Skills
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Capacity StrengtheningSocial and Behavior Change and GenderFood SecurityGenderWater, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH)
The tool identifies social and behavior change (SBC) competencies that project staff need to design, implement, and evaluate SBC components of nutrition programs. Program managers can use these competencies to guide hiring decisions, identify capacity strengthening priorities, and track performance. It is available in English and French.
This set of design workshop materials helps activity teams develop contextually appropriate, nutrition-sensitive agriculture outcomes, interventions, and indicators. The facilitator’s guide and accompanying slide decks are available in English and French.
Call to Action for Strengthening Nutrition Content in Pre-Service Training
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Capacity StrengtheningInfant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)Maternal NutritionMicronutrient InterventionsNutrition Assessment, Counseling, and Support (NACS)
Investing in pre-service training is an effective and sustainable way to improve nutrition services, but it requires collaboration among governments, academic institutions, professional associations, funders, and technical experts to ensure curricula prepare frontline health workers to deliver quality nutrition services. The brief is available in English, French, and Portuguese.
This document, created by USAID Advancing Nutrition and The Ministry of Health of Mozambique, is a 2021 supervision evaluation tool for Mozambique's Nutrition Program.
Report on Mapping of Sectoral and Multi-Sectoral Coordination Mechanisms for Nutrition at the National Level
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The mapping exercise sought to establish the presence and functionality of coordination mechanisms, bottlenecks, motivators and capacity gaps to effective sectoral and multi-sectoral coordination at the national level in Kenya.
La chaîne d'approvisionnement en aliments thérapeutiques prêts à l'emploi en République démocratique du Congo : Analyse et recommandations pour le renforcement de la livraison du dernier kilomètre dans les provinces du Kasaï Oriental et du Nord Kivu
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Nutrition in Humanitarian ContextsEmergency NutritionWasting
En République démocratique du Congo (RDC), le grand nombre d'enfants souffrant d'émaciation sévère a entraîné une augmentation de la demande d'aliments thérapeutiques prêts à l'emploi (ATPE), le produit utilisé pour traiter les enfants en soins ambulatoires (IPC 2022).
Blanket Supplementary Feeding in the Democratic Republic of the Congo: Findings from a Learning Activity
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Nutrition in Humanitarian ContextsWasting
This report describes a learning activity that reviewed how the World Food Programme has designed and implemented blanket supplementary feeding programs (BSFP) in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) over the last 3–5 years, including the identification of any global guidance used.
Gestion du de l'émaciation modéré à l'aide d'aliments locaux : Documentation des approches au Nigéria, au Sénégal et en Ouganda
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Nutrition in Humanitarian ContextsWastingEmergency Nutrition
Les praticiens et les bailleurs de fonds doivent mieux comprendre la diversité des approches alimentaires locales utilisées pour gérer l'émaciation modérée.
Considérations clés pour impliquer les hommes dans les programmes de nutrition chez la mère, le nourrisson et le jeune enfant
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Nutrition in Humanitarian ContextsBehavior Change for NutritionResilience and Food Security Activity (RFSA)
De plus en plus de données avérées suggèrent que l'implication des hommes dans la nutrition est souvent associée à une amélioration de l'alimentation des nourrissons et des jeunes enfants, à des pratiques alimentaires maternelles, à une amélioration des relations de couple et à un renforcement de la prise de décision conjointe.Reconnaissant l'influence des hommes sur la NMNJE, les partenaires d
Anemia in the Kyrgyz Republic: USAID Advancing Nutrition Supports Anemia Reduction Efforts
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Anemia
This is a technical brief produced by USAID Advancing Nutrition Kyrgyz Republic that discusses the overall anemia situation in the country, outlines what the project has done to address this, and discusses key next steps and suggestions for future work in this field.
An Impact Evaluation of USAID Advancing Nutrition’s Project to Improve Maternal and Child Nutrition in the Kyrgyz Republic
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This is a journal article written by the USAID Advancing Nutrition Kyrgyzstan team to evaluate the project’s impact on health and nutrition behaviors and the sustainability of that impact through reduced intervention intensity one year later.