Feeding and Disability Resource Bank
USAID Advancing Nutrition, October 2022
- Early Childhood Development
Reports and Tools
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.
Feeding Young Children during the COVID-19 Pandemic: Ensuring Their Future Growth and Development
United Nations Children’s Fund, April 2020
- Knowledge Management
Reports and Tools
Healthy complementary feeding after 6 months of age requires foods from four food groups daily. In addition to breastfeeding, babies need 2–3 meals and one snack per day. Sugary snacks and formula are unhealthy options for young children.
Feeding, Caregiving Practices, and Developmental Delay among Children Under Five in Lowland Nepal: A Community-Based Cross-Sectional Survey
Dulal, Sophiya, Audrey Prost, Surendra Karki, et al. BMC Public Health, September 2022
- Early Childhood Development
Research Articles
Suboptimal early breastfeeding practices, delayed introduction of complementary foods, inadequate dietary diversity, low animal-source food consumption, and inadequate early stimulation and responsive caregiving are common in Nepal. Younger children from poor households with young mothers are at particular risk for poor feeding and caregiving practices.
Field Exchange 63
ENN, October 2020
- Nutrition and Health Systems
Reports and Tools
The articles in this South Asia edition focus on integrating nutrition interventions into primary health care to prevent and treat wasting, integrating management of children with acute malnutrition in pediatric inpatient facilities, supporting healthy growth in infants in low-resource settings, integrating screening for acute malnutrition into the vitamin A supplementation campaign in the Rohingya camps during COVID-19, exploring the role of multiple micronutrient supplementation in pregnancy, and more.
Field Exchange Special Issue on the Continuum of Care for Acute Malnutrition
Emergency Nutrition Network, July 2019
- Nutrition in Humanitarian Contexts
- Nutrition and Health Systems
Reports and Tools
This special edition takes stock of current acute malnutrition programming efforts, including successes and ongoing challenges, through a curated summary of 8 field articles, 19 research studies, and 1 evaluation. Each article focuses on a specific issue along the continuum of care for acute malnutrition in a variety of country contexts, primarily in Africa. Key technical themes covered in the articles include simplified/expanded/combined approaches to acute malnutrition treatment, linkages between wasting and stunting programs along the continuum of care, and programs targeting moderate acute malnutrition.
Field Exchange Special Issue on Nutrition of School-Age Children and Adolescents
Emergency Nutrition Network, November 2021
- Nutrition and Health Systems
Reports and Tools
Developing international targets and goals and systematically tracking nutrition and mortality data are critical to assess the burden of malnutrition, monitor trends, prioritize interventions, advocate with governments, and assess programming efficacy. Articles stress the importance of schools as a critical delivery platform for health and nutrition interventions, urge greater efforts to serve out-of-school youth, and advocate for youth involvement in designing and implementing programs and projects to overcome their challenges.
Field Exchange: Special Issue on Nutrition of Adolescents and School-Aged Children
Emergency Nutrition Network, November 2021
- Nutrition and Health Systems
Reports and Tools
Articles focus on implementing school-based nutrition programs, promoting youth leadership, improving food choices, and supporting pregnant teens. Authors discuss the importance of gender equality and the use of media and social media to influence behaviors, a social entrepreneurship program promoting healthy diets, and a program delivering weekly iron and folic acid supplementation and nutrition education.
Field Exchange: Special Section on WaSt
Field Exchange: Special Section on WaSt
- Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning
Reports and Tools
Articles focus on wasting and stunting risk factors among internally displaced people, understanding sex differences in childhood malnutrition, scaling child wasting prevention and treatment in the context of stunting prevention, nutrition impact and positive practices, and promoting linear growth when treating child wasting, among others.
Fighting Malnutrition in Ghana: How Health Workers Are Leading the Charge
United States Agency for International Development, February 2023
- Knowledge Management
Reports and Tools
Training helps health workers integrate malnutrition screening and treatment into comprehensive primary health care services, conduct home visits to follow up with children being treated for malnutrition, and provide nutrition services to pregnant and breastfeeding women to prevent further childhood malnutrition.
The Financial Costs of Mass Media Interventions Used for Improving Breastfeeding Practices in Bangladesh, Burkina Faso, Nigeria, and Vietnam
Sanghvi, Tina G., Rick Homan, Thomas Forissier, et al. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, December 2022
- Social and Behavior Change and Gender
Research Articles
The cost of mass media breastfeeding interventions per mother ranged from 0.13 USD in Bangladesh to 0.85 USD in Burkina Faso. Evaluations showed that these interventions had high coverage and frequent exposure.
Finding the Right Fit: Using Segmentation Approaches to Shape Your SBC Programming
Breakthrough ACTION + RESEARCH, February 2022
- Social and Behavior Change and Gender
Events
Segmentation methodologies facilitate in-depth and nuanced understanding of individual and contextual drivers of behavior, which can help in designing and evaluating appropriate social and behavior change (SBC) interventions. Panelists who have used these approaches, developed frameworks and tools, and worked with implementers to develop innovative SBC interventions globally discuss their efforts. This is a webinar.
The First Food-Systems: The Importance of Breastfeeding in Global Food Systems Discussions
Alive & Thrive, Family Health International Solutions, Save the Children UK, July 2021
- Food Systems
Reports and Tools
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.
First-Food Systems Transformations and the Ultra-Processing of Infant and Young Child Diets: The Determinants, Dynamics, and Consequences of the Global Rise in Commercial Milk Formula Consumption
Baker, Phillip, Thiago Santos, Paulo Augusto Neves, et al. Maternal & Child Nutrition, November 2020
- Food Systems
Research Articles
Increasing formula sales are linked to rising incomes, urbanization, social norms, women's work, medicalization, and the globalization of the industry. Companies use diverse and aggressive marketing techniques to grow their markets, including product diversification, digital marketing, and health professional co-optation. Current policies to protect, promote, and support breastfeeding are inadequate.
Fisheries and Policy Implications for Human Nutrition
Vianna, Gabriel M. S., Dirk Zeller, Daniel Pauly. Food, Health, and the Environment, August 2020
- Food Systems
Research Articles
Fisheries can address malnutrition and micronutrient deficiencies with critical nutrients, such as fatty acids, zinc, iron, calcium, and vitamins. Overfishing, climate change, and international trade reduce local availability of nutritious and affordable fish in low income countries. Policy reforms that shift management focus of fisheries as a commodity provider to a domestic public health asset to ensure food- and nutrient-security are critical. This article is behind a paywall.
Five Ways Health and Social Services Can Support Babies, Toddlers and the People Who Care for Them through the Covid-19 Pandemic
Bernard van Leer Foundation, May 2020
- Early Childhood Development
Reports and Tools
COVID-19 requires health care, social services, childcare, and other sectors to address rapidly changing governmental policies. Priorities include early years health and nutrition services, parent coaching and support through remote means, childcare services, mental health services to caregivers and families with young children, and investments to prevent and address domestic violence.
Focusing on Multiple Micronutrient Supplements in Pregnancy: Second Edition
Sight and Life, May 2023
- Nutrition and Health Systems
Reports and Tools
Articles discuss the benefits of prenatal multiple micronutrient supplements, barriers and enablers to uptake, supplement delivery in humanitarian contexts, accelerating supply to meet future demand, social marketing approaches, the importance of partnerships and fostering an enabling environment, and the impacts of scaling on human capital outcomes, among other topics.
Focusing on Social Norms: A Practical Guide for Nutrition Programmers to Improve Women’s and Children’s Diets
USAID Advancing Nutrition, November 2022
- Social and Behavior Change and Gender
Reports and Tools
This guide provides insights on how to identify social and gender norms that influence dietary practices, to improve norm-responsive programming, and to monitor and measure shifts in norms. The guide includes worksheets and a social norms checklist.
Focusing on Social Norms: A Practical Guide for Nutrition Programmers to Improve Women’s and Children’s Diets
USAID Advancing Nutrition, March 2022
- Social and Behavior Change and Gender
Reports and Tools
This guide is for program planners and implementers developing norms-responsive activities within nutrition-sensitive or nutrition-specific programming. It includes tips and tools to improve program outcomes by understanding and responding to social norms and incorporates background on how to identify norms and monitor and measure change.
Food Aid for Nutrition: A Landscape Review of Current Research and Implications for Future Studies
Wrabel, Maria, Kristine Caiafa, Beatrice Lorge Rogers, et al. Food Aid Quality Review, Field Exchange, Issue 62, p. 38, April 2020
- Nutrition in Humanitarian Contexts
- Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning
Research Articles
To highlight key themes and identify under-researched areas in studies that look at specialized nutritious foods, the authors analyzed 142 manuscripts published from January 2011 to July 2018 and 33 clinical trials active as of July 2018. All focused on rural Africa and most dealt with the effectiveness of specialized products in addressing a narrow range of nutrition outcomes. The authors conclude that more research is needed on specialized nutritious food programming, particularly in emergency and humanitarian contexts and urban settings, in prevention of nutritional deficits, and in cost-effectiveness of alternative approaches, among others.
Food Distributions in Myanmar: Responding to the COVID-19 Pandemic and the Coup d’État
Doerfel, Christian, Paing Soe, Nicki Connell, Emergency Nutrition Network, May 2022
- Nutrition in Humanitarian Contexts
Reports and Tools
Working with communities to identify the lowest cost, most nutrient-dense, and culturally acceptable foods will ensure more successful food distribution. Networking with, and strengthening the capacity of, local organizations to distribute food and cash and efficiently manage stock is important, as is creating strategies for staff, volunteer, and community member safety during distributions.
Food Environment Toolkit to Inform Consumer-Driven Food Market System Programming for Better Maternal and Child Nutrition
Agriculture, Nutrition, and Health Academy, June 2023
- Food Systems
Reports and Tools
This toolkit helps market actors understand and develop strategies to address barriers to increasing sales of nutritious foods.
Food Inflation and Child Undernutrition in Low- and Middle-Income Countries
International Food Policy Research Institute, November 2022
- Food Systems
Reports and Tools
Food inflation increases the risk of wasting and severe wasting in infants and older children, especially male children and those from poor and rural households. Food inflation during pregnancy and in the first year after birth increases the risk of stunting in children aged two to five years. Interventions to prevent food inflation and mitigate its impacts are critical.
Food Insecurity and Malnutrition in West and Central Africa at 10-Year High as Crisis Spreads to Coastal Countries
World Food Programme, April 2023
- Nutrition in Humanitarian Contexts
Reports and Tools
Global acute malnutrition is growing due to the unaffordability of a diversified nutritious diet; conflict; population displacement; and reduced access to social services, farming land, and fodder. Governments need sustained support to develop social protection programs that target women and young children; strengthen partnerships to prevent and treat acute malnutrition among children; and promote climate-smart programs that reduce vulnerability to climate shocks and natural resource depletion. Governments can also strengthen food security and nutrition by building food; health; and water, sanitation, and hygiene systems.
Food Marketing Exposure and Power and their Associations with Food-Related Attitudes, Beliefs and Behaviours: A Narrative Review
World Health Organization, February 2022
- Social and Behavior Change and Gender
Reports and Tools
Marketing of unhealthy foods remains pervasive. This review adds evidence and perspectives on contemporary marketing. Authors provide evidence that supports action to restrict marketing to which children are exposed.