Social and Behavior Change
This assessment informed the design of social and behavior change (SBC) activities across the USAID Nawiri program in Isiolo and Marsabit.
Water Security for Nutrition
This brief summarizes the constraints and opportunities of water governance and resource management to understand the root causes of water insecurity and how they relate to adverse nutrition outcomes in Samburu and Turkana.
Market Systems Context Including the Role and Potential of the Private Sector; Implications for Addressing Acute Malnutrition in Kenya’s Arid and Semi-Arid Lands (ASALs)
This market assessment included a desk review and qualitative research with private sector and other actors. The aim was to improve USAID Nawiri’s understanding of nutritious food value chain dynamics and their functionality for household access.
Health System Drivers of Acute Malnutrition
This study was conducted to determine the effectiveness of nutrition and health systems and degree to which they have mitigated persistent acute malnutrition to date, and to highlight ways to strengthen their effect on nutrition in vulnerable communities.
Improving Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health (ASRH) for Sustainable Reductions in Persistent Acute Malnutrition in Samburu and Turkana
This brief highlights insights from a study to uncover the complex individual, interpersonal, community, and structural influences that shape adolescent pregnancy and childbearing as a main driver of persistent global acute malnutrition.
Participatory Institutional Capacity Assessment (PICA) for the implementation of Multisectoral Nutrition Approaches in Isiolo and Marsabit Counties
USAID Nawiri is working with and through local systems and institutions, enhancing collective capacity to implement sustainable multi-sectoral approaches to reduce acute malnutrition and manage, adapt, and scale up promising approaches in context-informed ways.
Strategic Actor Engagement in Turkana and Samburu Counties
USAID Nawiri continuously questions its assumptions about how and by whom things should be done, and challenges its partners to do the same.
Natural Resource Management (NRM) Desk Study
This desk study explored how land access and natural resource management (NRM) policies, institutions, and relationships are changing in the arid and semi-arid lands (ASALs).
Governance and System Strengthening for Nutrition
This learning brief summarizes key findings and insights from an analysis of the role of governance systems and formal institutions in shaping patterns and trends in acute malnutrition.
Building Resilient Markets in Food Systems
USAID Nawiri explored local food markets to inform approaches to strengthen local and regional food systems to improve households’ ability to access safe, affordable, and nutritious foods year-round.
Isiolo and Marsabit Counties Monitoring and Evaluation Capacity Assessment Tool (MECAT) Baseline Findings
This assessment aimed to understand respective county monitoring and evaluation (M&E) capacities; identify related weaknesses and gaps; and create capacity development plans.
Unpacking the Conflict, Climate, Environment, and Nutrition Nexus to Catalyze Change for the Sustainable Reduction in Persistent Global Acute Malnutrition in Samburu and Turkana Counties
This brief highlights insights and lessons from USAID Nawiri’s review of the relationship between conflict and persistent global acute malnutrition.
Government Sector Nutrition Policies and Strategies
USAID Nawiri conducted a desk review to inform the design of the participatory institutional capacity assessment and program Phase 2. The review explored government sector nutrition policies and strategies from the perspective of sustainably reducing acute malnutrition.
Participatory Epidemiology Findings
This study explored how communities perceive the causes and changes in malnutrition prevalence by season for children and mothers.
Livestock Service Delivery Assessment
This assessment examined constraints to and opportunities for improved veterinary, fodder, and extension services in Kenya arid and semi-arid lands (ASALs). Constraints to animal health service delivery include high cost of services in vast remote locations.
Labor Market
Through a labor market assessment, USAID Nawiri explored constraints and opportunities for livelihoods, entry points for interventions, and the potential effect on nutrition outcomes.
Elevating Community Voices in Turkana and Samburu Counties
Engaging community members and elevating their voices is a priority for USAID Nawiri and has been highlighted as a key to its success. This brief summarizes lessons from the program’s experience engaging stakeholders and communities and how they will be applied going forward.