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Project implementation translates objectives and planned results into discrete activities that that are budgeted, carried out, and monitored. Incorporating lessons learned and existing technical resources into activity implementation supports evidence-informed programming and can result in more efficient programs. The resources below focus on implementation aspects of specific technical areas, including social and behavior change, family engagement, infant and young child feeding, costing, and more.
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Design Innovations Resource Collection: Bringing Emotional Intelligence to Nutrition Social and Behavior Change
Access these resources for inspiration and techniques to solve a challenge or “level up” for greater effectiveness in your nutrition program or services. The resources included here range from case studies, guides, and briefs to job aids, data analyses, and research insights.
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Key Considerations for Engaging Men in Maternal, Infant, and Young Child Nutrition Programming: A Technical Report for USAID Resilience Food Security Activity Implementing Partners
This report for USAID Resilience Food Security Activity implementing partners presents 1) common approaches currently used for engaging men in maternal, infant, and young child nutrition programming, 2) findings from the literature and key informant interviews about barriers, and 3) the key considerations for the design, implementation, monitoring, and sustainability of male engagement activities to minimize the risk of engagement while ensuring women’s agency and safety.
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Small-Quantity Lipid-Based Nutrient Supplements: What to Communicate to Program Participants
This brief provides information that will help USAID implementing partners develop communication materials to accompany distribution of small-quantity lipid-based nutrient supplements (SQ-LNS) for children 6–24 months of age and pregnant and breastfeeding women whose diets are nutritionally suboptimal and/or insufficient. SQ-LNS are intended to be consumed in addition to the regular meals pregnant and lactating women and children under age two consume each day.
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Integrating Complementary Feeding in Emergencies: A Decision Tool for Concrete Actions at Each Stage of the Humanitarian Program Cycle
This programmatic brief identifies time points through assessment, situation analysis, and programming scope to incorporate considerations for complementary feeding in emergencies and signposting tools from emergency and non-emergency settings.
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Counseling to Support Improved Nutrition and Development Outcomes
Counseling is an essential service to support and improve maternal, infant, and young child nutrition and child development outcomes. USAID Advancing Nutrition has developed a series of counseling-related resources to help strengthen the effectiveness of nutrition counseling in nutrition programming.
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Effectively Measuring Training: Building Knowledge and Skills for Nutrition Programs
This brief provides practical information about how to assess nutrition training programs, utilizing best practices from the capacity strengthening field to create more effective and efficient programs.
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A Guidance Package for Developing Digital Tracking and Decision-Support Tools for Growth Monitoring and Promotion Services
This guidance package is intended to facilitate the development of country-specific digital tools for the delivery and supervision of growth, monitoring and promotion services; save time and resources; reduce duplication of effort, errors, and inconsistencies; and ensure adherence to global guidance.
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Infant and Young Child Feeding Image Bank (Resource Collection)
This collection of over 900 images is adapted from UNICEF’s Community Infant and Young Child Feeding Counselling Package.These materials have been used in more than 70 countries for counseling and training to promote maternal and child nutrition and can be incorporated into program design and implementation.
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Adolescent Nutrition Resource Bank (Resource Collection)
Adolescent nutrition is an important but often overlooked part of activity design. This collection offers a wide range of technical resources to support various stages of the program cycle, including monitoring and evaluation.
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Learning From Health System Actor and Caregiver Experiences in Ghana and Nepal to Strengthen Growth Monitoring and Promotion
This case study explores implementation of growth monitoring and promotion in Ghana and Nepal. It includes important considerations for strengthening growth monitoring and promotion through service delivery and demand generation efforts.
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Nutrition SBC Work Plan Checklist
This practical checklist for important nutrition social and behavior change content contains considerations that should be included in draft workplans as part of program implementation.
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Feeding and Disability Resource Bank (Collection)
This user-friendly collection of materials helps program planners design and implement effective nutrition programs for children with disabilities.
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Food Processing for Improved Diets
This brief guides design and implementation of food processing activities for improved diets and nutrition. It considers food processing within the food system and provides guidance on implementation that is inclusive of a range of actors and processes that can positively impact diets.
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Technical Brief on Costing Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Activities
This brief summarizes guidance for planning, tracking, and assessing costs of multi-sectoral nutrition activities. It highlights resources that USAID Missions and implementing partners may find useful for conceptualizing costing and presents resources with detailed guidance on key phases.
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Community Health Worker Competency List for Nutrition Social and Behavior Change
Nutrition project managers and ministries of health can use this list as a starting point for assessing, developing, and evaluating community health workers’ social and behavior change skills. Also available in French.
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Responsive Care and Early Learning
The Responsive Care and Early Childhood Learning Addendum is a useful starting point to integrate early childhood development content into infant and young child feeding counseling packages. The package includes training materials, counseling cards, and guidance on planning, adaptation, and implementation.
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USAID Advancing Nutrition Adapts to COVID-19
This brief captures lessons learned from USAID’'s flagship nutrition project on adaptations made during the COVID-19 pandemic based on the best real-time evidence available.
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Managing Nutrition Myths and Misconceptions During COVID-19
This short guide covers social and behavior change strategies for combating misinformation and supporting programs when responding to fallacies about COVID-19 that affect nutrition.
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Guidance On SBC For Nutrition During Covid-19: Technical Brief
This short guide covers social and behavior change strategies for combating misinformation and supporting programs when responding to fallacies about COVID-19 that affect nutrition.
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Social and Behavior Change Do's and Don'ts: Getting It Right for Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Programming
This tool helps nutrition program planners improve quality at every stage of multi-sectoral nutrition social and behavior change programming, including design, implementation, monitoring, and adaptation. Also available in French.