New Resources for IYCF Programming—Updated Image Bank
USAID Advancing Nutrition, May 2021
Events
High-quality images are an essential component of social and behavior change, and illustrations can be particularly helpful where literacy rates and access to media are low. Updates expand the collection of IYCF images to include content on responsive feeding, responsive care, and overweight and obesity. This is a webinar.
A New Statistical Method for Estimating Usual Intakes of Nearly-Daily Consumed Foods and Nutrients through Use of Only One 24-hour Dietary Recall
Luo, Hanqi, Kevin W. Dodd, Charles D. Arnold, et al. The Journal of Nutrition, Vol. 149, Issue 9, p. 1667–1673, September 2019
- Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning
Research Articles
Although published in September, this resource remains one the few that provides information about measuring diets and diet quality. The authors developed a new statistical method to improve population distribution estimates of usual intake of nearly daily consumed foods and nutrients using single-day dietary data per person. Using National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey data for men from 2011–2014 on intake distributions of four nutrients, the researchers found that the method is statistically viable when the variance ratio is unbiased.
New Tools for High-Quality Nutrition Social and Behavior Change Programming
USAID Advancing Nutrition, August 2021
Reports and Tools
These tools help harmonize design, implementation, monitoring, and evaluation of nutrition social and behavior change programs. They emphasize prioritizing behaviors that will impact outcomes, addressing critical factors that influence priority nutrition behaviors, and developing activities with a clear pathway between behaviors, factors, and interventions.
New Tools: Multi-Sectoral Planning and Designing Multi-Stakeholder Platforms
Scaling Up Nutrition, October 2021
- Capacity Strengthening
Reports and Tools
The toolkits focus on the design of successful multi-stakeholder platforms to improve intersectoral coordination for nutrition. Stakeholders will learn relevant steps within the country-led process, find guidance on approaches, and identify appropriate and useful resources to support this process.
NIPN Ethiopia: Aligning with Food and Nutrition Security Priorities
National Information Platforms for Nutrition, January 2023
- Food Systems
Events
Speakers explore how the integration of the National Information Platforms for Nutrition (NIPN) into the nutrition coordination structure enhances support to coordination and collaboration mechanisms, enables core NIPN activities to better align and contribute to the implementation of national plans and programs, and enhances the impact of NIPN products and capacity strengthening activities. Speakers call for NIPN to support more high-level, multi-sectoral advocacy efforts. This is a webinar.
No Time to Waste: Tackling Malnutrition Together
USAID Advancing Nutrition, February 2023
- Knowledge Management
Reports and Tools
Strengthening nutrition governance, elevating local voices and experiences, sharing evidence, promoting capacity strengthening and advocacy, and maximizing the reach of USAID Advancing Nutrition’s work are critical to sustain nutrition outcomes. The global nutrition community must strengthen coordination and collaboration to meet and sustain global goals.
Normative Guidance: WHO Guideline on the Prevention and Management of Wasting and Nutritional Oedema (Acute Malnutrition) in Infants and Children Under 5 Years
World Health Organization, July 2023
- Nutrition and Health Systems
Reports and Tools
The guideline focuses on the management of infants under six months of age at risk of poor growth and development as well as infants and children ages 6–59 months with wasting and/or nutritional edema. It includes post-exit interventions after recovery and prevention strategies.
Nourishing Connections: Community Health Worker Job Aid
USAID Advancing Nutrition, Breakthrough ACTION, March 2023
- Social and Behavior Change and Gender
Reports and Tools
This booklet provides detailed activities and instructions for community health workers (CHWs) to assess caregiver nutrition knowledge, attitudes, and practices; listen carefully; provide compassionate counseling on child feeding through tailored discussions and problem solving; and develop an action plan. The accompanying supporting tools document provides additional methods and activities to help CHWs engage with caregivers.
Nourishing Food Systems: The Interdependency Between Agriculture and Nutrition
Farm Journal Foundation, October 2021
- Food Systems
Events
Agriculture and nutrition are often siloed in terms of policy, field implementation, and economic impact. Speakers explored the interdependence between agriculture and nutrition, current challenges, and models of progress. This is a webinar.
Nourishing Heroínas in Mozambique: Understanding, Designing with, and Tailoring Nutrition Interventions to Adolescent Girls
Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition, April 2021
- Social and Behavior Change and Gender
Reports and Tools
A human-centered design approach to creating behavior change interventions can help identify users’ motivations, abilities, and opportunities. While time consuming and resource intensive, continuous learning through ideation, prototyping, and iteration provides valuable insights into users’ realities. This paper is available in English and Portuguese.
Nurturing Care during COVID-19: Lessons Learned in 7 Countries
WHO, FHI 360, and the LEGO Foundation, April 2021
Events
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.
Nurturing Care for Children with Developmental Delays and Disabilities
Aga Khan Foundation, Early Childhood Development Action Network, The Lego Foundation, UNICEF, December 2020
Events
This webinar discusses challenges in serving children who have developmental delays and disabilities; presents emerging research; and highlights early identification, capacity building, public awareness, and psychosocial rehabilitation projects. This is a webinar.
Nurturing Care for Every Newborn: Ensuring Every Newborn Survives and Thrives
WHO, UNICEF, Child Health Task Force, Early Childhood Development Action Network, September 2021
- Early Childhood Development
Events
The thematic brief introduced outlines the five components of nurturing care and presents practical actions to strengthen nurturing environments for newborns, including those who are born early, small, or ill. It is critical to invest in policies, health systems, and community awareness to provide developmentally supportive care. This is a webinar.
Nurturing Care for Small and Sick Newborns: Evidence Review and Country Case Studies
Every Preemie-SCALE/Project, Maternal and Child Survival Program, August 2019
- Early Childhood Development
- Nutrition and Health Systems
Reports and Tools
Small and sick newborns face serious risk of developmental delays, but most newborns can survive and thrive, provided they have access to quality nurturing care. This package summarizes nurturing care evidence and best practices for this population. It includes an updated evidence review of the core elements of developmentally supportive, family-centered, and nurturing care; implementation experience from seven countries with high-, middle- and low-income settings; and a gap analysis to inform future research.
Nurturing Care Framework for Early Childhood Development: Dissemination and Uptake Since May 2018
WHO, UNICEF, the World Bank Group, the ECD Action Network and the Partnership for Maternal, Newborn and Child Health, June 2019
- Early Childhood Development
Reports and Tools
One year after WHO, UNICEF, the World Bank, and partners launched the Nurturing Care Framework, they published this report on efforts by countries around the world to adopt it. To date, 30 countries have begun implementing the Framework and identifying entry points in the health, nutrition, and other sectors to deliver multi-sectoral services. The report provides an overview of uptake at the national, regional, and global levels.
Nurturing Care Framework Progress Report 2018–2023: Reflections and Looking Forward
World Health Organization and UNICEF, June 2023
- Early Childhood Development
Reports and Tools
This report summarizes the achievements of the Nurturing Care Framework, including the development of new global measures for population-level assessments of early child development (ECD), an extensive research repository, and ECD profiles for 197 countries. Priorities include using new measures and locally generated evidence and data to inform policy, planning, budgeting, and financing, stimulating initiatives at subnational levels and in communities, strengthening systems capacity, and producing local evidence about interventions that improve ECD outcomes and reduce inequities.
The Nurturing Care Framework – The Education and Health Nexus
The Society for International Development, May 2020
- Early Childhood Development
- Nutrition in Humanitarian Contexts
- Nutrition and Health Systems
Events
Panelists from the International Rescue Committee, USAID, and PATH participated in a webinar to explain how their organizations incorporate the Nurturing Care Framework into humanitarian settings, nutrition programs, and the health sector. They discuss their organizations’ interaction with the framework in several countries, the challenges they face, the gaps they are addressing, the gaps that remain, and how COVID-19 has affected or altered their work.
Nurturing Care and Men's Engagement: Thematic Brief
World Health Organization, October 2022
- Early Childhood Development
Reports and Tools
The engagement of men is associated with higher levels of antenatal, childbirth, and postnatal care, better infant and mother nutrition, higher rates of exclusive breastfeeding, and a reduction of postpartum depression and violence against women and children. Men’s interactions with their young children contribute to children’s cognitive, social, and emotional development; school readiness; educational achievement; and better mental health. Sharing childcare responsibilities can improve men’s family relationships, happiness, and physical and mental health.
Nurturing Care Practice Guide
UNICEF, World Health Organization, January 2023
- Early Childhood Development
Reports and Tools
This guide explores the rationale for giving greater attention to responsive caregiving; opportunities for early learning, safety, and security; and supporting the well-being of caregivers. It describes what managers can do to develop services and better equip service providers and provides practical suggestions for service provider engagement with families.
Nurturing Young Children through Responsive Feeding
USAID Advancing Nutrition, UNICEF, and World Health Organization, May 2023
- Knowledge Management
Reports and Tools
Comprehensive counseling, and responsive feeding (RF) are an essential aspect of adequate nutrition and responsive caregiving. This brief describes how responsive feeding promotes positive caregiver-child interactions and early learning. Interventions to support RF should be implemented and coordinated across systems, including health, nutrition, social welfare, parenting, and childcare programs.
Nutrient Profiling: Designing a Healthier Future for Global Benefit
Sight and Life Magazine, October 2021
- Knowledge Management
Reports and Tools
Nutrient profiling models have the potential to address stunting and micronutrient deficiencies. Researchers and programmers should consider all forms of malnutrition, including inadequate intakes of vitamins and minerals, the lack of high quality protein intakes, and overweight and obesity. Creating regional or national criteria for acceptable amounts of critical nutrients is a key step for policy formation, behavior change strategies, and compliance. USAID Chief Nutritionist Shawn Baker is interviewed.
Nutrition 2019 Sessions on Demand
American Society for Nutrition, June 2019
- Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning
Events
Professionals who missed Nutrition 2019 in Baltimore, MD, USA, or who would like to find the materials from a session they attended, can find them on the American Society for Nutrition website, where select session recordings are available for free. Topics of interest include “A Cross-Sector Debate to Increase the Consumption of Nutrient Dense Foods,” “Diet Quality, Micronutrient Delivery,” and “Addressing the Four Domains of Sustainable Food Systems Science.” The American Society for Nutrition will continue to post more sessions related to this year’s theme, “Where the Best in Science & Health Meet.”
Nutrition at USAID: A Legacy of Impact and Progress
USAID Advancing Nutrition, December 2021
- Knowledge Management
Reports and Tools
USAID and its partners work with countries to provide people with skills, tools, and resources to improve their families’ health, diets, and nutrition, especially early in life. This is a video.
Nutrition Capacity Assessment of Agriculture Extension Services in Nigeria
Adeyemi, Olutayo, Victor Adejoh, Olufolakemi Anjorin, et al. Food and Nutrition Bulletin, March 2023
- Capacity Strengthening
Research Articles
Deploying agriculture extension agents to deliver nutrition services requires sufficient staffing, better transportation, additional training, and improvements in organizational capacity. It also requires addressing contextual factors, including worker safety. This article is behind a paywall.