USAID Advancing Nutrition develops, curates, packages, and shares multi-sectoral nutrition knowledge to help you stay on top of developments and evidence in global nutrition programming.
Describes the project's work in 12 municipalities of Honduras to address nutrition challenges through a systems approach. USAID Advancing Nutrition aims to improve the quality of diets to reduce malnutrition in at least 10,000 households.
USAID Advancing Nutrition Presents at the 2022 International Social and Behavior Change Communication (SBCC) Summit
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Knowledge ManagementChild NutritionGrowth Monitoring and PromotionInfant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)Maternal NutritionPrivate-Sector Engagement
Summit topics include generating demand for healthy diets, supporting local leadership skills development for social and behavior change (SBC), and prioritizing behaviors for effective multi-sectoral nutrition SBC. Accompanying resources include posters and slide decks.
Nutrition in the Health Sector: Urgent Need to Accelerate Action and Accountability
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Knowledge ManagementCOVID-19Food Systems
New programmatic and financial commitments focus on the importance of strengthening national- and local-level nutrition financing, coordination, human resources, policies, and surveillance systems.
USAID Advancing Nutrition @ 22nd International Congress of Nutrition
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Knowledge ManagementChild NutritionCOVID-19Growth Monitoring and PromotionInfant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)Maternal NutritionMicronutrient InterventionsNutrition Assessment, Counseling, and Support (NACS)
Presentations focus on tools to improve the quantity of infant and young child feeding (IYCF) counseling, small-quantity lipid-based nutrient supplement programs, food taboos and preferences among women, the knowledge and skills needed to counsel on IYCF during and after illness, nutritional care for children with feeding difficulties and disabilities, and using child growth monitoring and prom
The 2022 report introduces the nutrition accountability framework; discusses commitments made for the 2021 Nutrition Year of Action; and outlines priorities for governments, civil society organizations, the private sector, donors, and international organizations.
Getting to 2030: Maternal and Child Health and Nutrition Technical Roadmap
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Knowledge ManagementChild NutritionInfant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)Maternal NutritionWater, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH)
This roadmap supports a coordinated, strategic approach to strengthening essential services and health systems for women and children and informs the development, measurement, and adjustment of country level strategic plans.
Grandmas and Global Health—The Role of Culture in Health Promotion
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Knowledge Management
Grandmothers and other senior women are underutilized resources for promoting positive change in communities. The director of the Grandmother Project argues that developing intergenerational consensus for change requires engaging senior women to improve their knowledge and confidence and warns against viewing elders as an obstacle to change. This is a podcast.
Global Report on Health Equity for Persons with Disabilities
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Early Childhood DevelopmentKnowledge Management
The report documents evidence of health inequities and country experiences advancing health equity, and provides recommendations to health sector decision-makers for country-level action.
Identifying and Interrupting Fecal-Oral Pathways in Young Children
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Knowledge ManagementChild NutritionInfant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH)
This guide helps Resilience Food Security Activity implementing partners determine whether they need to conduct research to identify and prioritize fecal-oral pathways for infants and young children. It provides guidance about how to design formative research activities and explores appropriate data collection methods for measuring the effectiveness of interventions.
School Health and Nutrition Microlearnings Toolkit
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Knowledge ManagementChild Nutrition
The toolkit provides multimedia resources on key school health and nutrition interventions and strategies to strengthen cross-sectoral collaboration and co-investment to improve students’ well-being and learning.
Knowledge ManagementChild NutritionInfant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)Maternal Nutrition
Ministries of health used human-centered design to identify how to improve technical assistance delivery for maternal, newborn, and child health and health systems strengthening, all of which contribute to improved nutrition.
Destabilizing planetary pressures and inequalities, societal transformations to ease these pressures, and intensifying polarization are impacting human development. Investing in renewable energy, pandemic preparation, insurance, social protection, and capacity strengthening are critical to respond to these challenges.
Child Food Poverty: A Nutrition Crisis in Early Childhood
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Knowledge ManagementChild Nutrition
This brief and accompanying database provides detailed country-specific data about children experiencing food poverty and severe food poverty and discusses how metrics have changed over time.
1000 Days of Good Nutrition: In the United States or Abroad, It Is About Equity, Evidence, and Leadership
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Knowledge ManagementBreastfeedingCOVID-19
The article discusses the impact of essential nutrient deficiencies before conception and during pregnancy, the importance of creating an enabling environment to support universal breastfeeding, gaps in the U.S. health system, the need for well-designed social protection programs, and the importance of appropriate and timely data.
Supporting Children with Feeding Difficulties and Disabilities in Nutrition Programs: Tools for Action Webinar
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Early Childhood DevelopmentKnowledge Management
USAID Advancing Nutrition launched the Feeding and Disability Resource Bank to assist nutrition and disability program managers with the design & implementation of effective nutrition programs.
Fiche d'information sur le projet de l'USAID en action pour la nutrition
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Knowledge Management
L’USAID en action pour la nutrition renforce les investissements de l’Agence des États Unis pour le développement international (USAID) dans le domaine de la nutrition, en fournissant un soutien et une assistance technique aux Missions de l’USAID, aux gouvernements et aux partenaires aux niveaux local, régional et national, dans le cadre de l’amélioration de l’état nutritionnel et des résultats
Hoja de datos del Proyecto para el USAID para el avance de la nutrición
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Knowledge Management
USAID para el avance de la nutrición refuerza las inversiones en nutrición de la Agencia de los Estados Unidos para el Desarrollo Internacional (USAID), proporcionando apoyo y asistencia técnica a las misiones de USAID, a los gobiernos y a los socios a nivel local, regional y nacional para mejorar el estado nutricional y los resultados de salud en todo el mundo.
A Review of Child Focused Multi Sectoral Programming in Africa and Latin America
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Knowledge ManagementChild Nutrition
The report discusses successes and failures in implementing multi-sectoral programs, presents lessons learned from collaborating across sectors, identifies knowledge gaps, and articulates a research agenda for multi-sectoral child health approaches.
Competencies: The Building Blocks of Capacity Strengthening Webinar Series
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Capacity StrengtheningIdentification and Use of Nutrition CompetenciesKnowledge ManagementMonitoring, Evaluation, and Learning
These three webinars aim to review the importance of competencies and how to translate them from a concept to a tangible, relevant tool for designing high-quality capacity strengthening interventions.