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.
This handbook highlights essential entry points within the food systems where policymakers can intervene to shift food systems towards providing more safe, affordable, and accessible, and nutritious diets. You can this as a resource to draw and adapt ideas for developing policies tailored to your specific context.
The Food Systems Dashboard is an online tool that policymakers and programmers can use to access and visualize food systems data. You can use it to compare food systems data across regions and countries and track progress on key indicators.
This report draws on recent evidence to outline 42 policy actions that policymakers and programmers can enact to support food systems in delivering nutritious, high-quality diets for all. You can use this resource to get ideas for where to intervene throughout the food system; including action oriented toward production, supply chains, food environments and consumers. The report includes the potential impact of each action.
Peter is a health systems specialist and capacity development expert with almost 20 years of experience in health, education, livelihoods, governance, and advocacy. He joins USAID Advancing Nutrition from Concern Worldwide, where he served as programme director and nutrition project lead for the USAID/Nawiri project. Peter brings extensive experience working with Kenya’s Ministry of Health (MOH) and USAID, as well as local county governments and academic institutions.
USAID Advancing Nutrition is recruiting for a Project Coordinator on the Social Behavior Change (SBC) team. The project coordinator will work to keep the SBC team organized and on deadline through day-to-day administrative support. The ideal candidate will be exceptionally organized and attentive to detail, comfortable working in teams and independently to complete tasks, cross-cultural intelligence and hold a university degree with experience studying or working overseas. They will coordinate internal and external meetings, including meetings with USAID.
The consultant will support the USAID Advancing Nutrition New Partnerships Initiative (NPI) by providing technical assistance to identified local organizations. The capacity strengthening consultant will collaborate with two organizations in the Centre Ouest region of Burkina Faso, to conduct an organizational capacity assessment (OCA) and lead the development of a capacity strengthening plan for each. The ideal candidate will have: