We found 40 results
Methods and Approaches for Extending Dry Season Lactation in Livestock in Samburu and Turkana Counties: Milk Availability Study
Milk has been integral to pastoralist nutrition for centuries, and its importance to child health is well established. USAID Nawiri conducted this study to identify practical approaches to extend dry season lactation in milking animals and increase the availability of milk.
How to Increase Demand, Availability, Accessibility & Consumption of Highly Nutritious Foods
The cost of diet studies looked at what nutritious foods are locally available in the market to inform strategies for improving food production, availability, & access.
REAP for Nutrition: Early Learnings and Implications in Samburu and Turkana
Poverty graduation is one of the core pillars of USAID Nawiri’s resilient livelihoods for nutrition security strategy. It uses a time-bound and carefully sequenced package of multi-sector interventions to lift the poorest and most vulnerable households out of poverty.
Resilient Community Health Systems
Prior to USAID Nawiri, there was limited evidence from Samburu and Turkana on institutional, structural, and local bottlenecks to establishing a more resilient community health system.
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.
Learning from Health Systems Strengthening for Improved Nutrition Outcomes in Turkana and Samburu Counties
Systems strengthening is a key part of USAID Nawiri’s approach to reducing persistent acute malnutrition. The program works within and alongside key government and USAID-supported platforms to facilitate government ownership.
Participatory Epidemiology Findings
This study explored how communities perceive the causes and changes in malnutrition prevalence by season for children and mothers.
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.