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Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Updating National CMAM Guidelines Lessons from Previous Experiences
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Knowledge Management
Wasting
Using country experiences developing and updating national guidelines for community-based management of acute malnutrition (CMAM) and integrated management of acute malnutrition, this report provides recommendations to national governments, the World Health Organization and other relevant United Nations agencies, and civil society organizations for updating guidelines on preventing and treating
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
USAID Administrator Power on the State of Global Food Security and Nutrition
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Knowledge Management
WastingAdolescent NutritionCOVID-19Emergency NutritionFood SecurityInfant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)Micronutrient InterventionsNutrition Assessment, Counseling, and Support (NACS)
The COVID-19 pandemic, climate change, and conflict have increased the number of acutely food insecure people to historic highs; the war in Ukraine will add to this number, which is projected to reach 323 million people in 2022. USAID, technical experts, and philanthropists pursuing public-private investment discuss steps to combat the worsening crisis. This is a webinar.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
USAID Nutrition Report to Congress FY22
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Knowledge Management
WastingAnemiaBreastfeedingCOVID-19Food SecurityInfant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)Maternal NutritionMicronutrient Interventions
The report discusses country-specific stunting, wasting, anemia, and breastfeeding gains in the face of COVID-19 shocks and the climate crisis.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Programming to Improve Adolescent Nutrition Is Essential—and These Resources Can Help
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Knowledge Management
Adolescent NutritionWater, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH)
The Adolescent Nutrition Resource Bank provides hundreds of policies, program examples, guidance, and tools to help stakeholders design, improve, and expand programs and services. Research to determine how to design effective programs and materials should disaggregate by residence, education, wealth, agency, access to food, culture, and physiological status.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Mom Knows Best: Equipping Mothers in the Kyrgyz Republic with Nutrition Know-How
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Knowledge Management
Adolescent NutritionBreastfeedingComplementary FeedingCOVID-19Infant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)
Counseling for parents focuses on optimal nutrition for families through breastfeeding and infant and young child feeding practices. Training sessions cover proper breastfeeding posture, frequency of breastfeeding, and good maternal diet to support infant health.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Good Nutrition Better Lives, Focus on Africa—Episode 34
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Knowledge Management
BreastfeedingFood SecurityNutrition Sensitive Agriculture
Speakers discuss developing youth agribusiness hubs, adapting to climate change through better rangeland management and improved livestock feed, promoting nutrition in agribusiness, and how healthy diets can contribute to healthy economies through agriculture, among other topics. This is a podcast.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Bite the Talk Ep 14—Nothing about Us without Us
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Knowledge Management
GenderGrowth Monitoring and PromotionPrivate-Sector Engagement
Representatives from youth-driven organizations advocate for young people to be aware, equipped, empowered, and engaged to address food and nutrition issues. Speakers seek greater understanding of how government, business, other development actors, and young people can work together to ensure food system sustainability. This is a podcast with a transcript.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
How AI Is Transforming Maternal Health Care in Vietnam
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Knowledge ManagementNutrition and Health Systems
Adolescent NutritionAnemiaBehavior Change for NutritionBreastfeedingCOVID-19GenderInfant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)Maternal NutritionNutrition Assessment, Counseling, and Support (NACS)
The Momby app is a virtual assistant that provides nutritional advice and education on fetal development, bonding practices, essential newborn care, and breastfeeding. Users can make health care appointments and ask questions in real time. The app also features a version for fathers.
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
USAID Advancing Nutrition Project Fact Sheet
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Knowledge Management
USAID Advancing Nutrition strengthens nutrition investments of USAID, providing support and technical assistance to USAID Missions, governments, and partners at local, regional, and national levels and as they improve nutritional status and health outcomes around the world.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Mothers' Milk Contributes Almost $4 Trillion to the Global Economy—But Its Value Has Never Been Considered. A New Tool Now Makes That Possible
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Food SystemsKnowledge ManagementNutrition and Health Systems
BreastfeedingEconomic Growth
The tool uses existing data to estimate the value of breastmilk. The accompanying webinar and brief advocate for developing paid maternity leave and workplace policies that support breastfeeding, ending exploitative marketing of commercial formula milk, and improving access to skilled counseling.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Scope and Impact of Digital Marketing Strategies for Promoting Breastmilk Substitutes
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Knowledge Management
Breastfeeding
Findings raise significant concerns about the use of powerful digital marketing techniques to influence mothers’ feeding decisions. The report and webinar are available in Arabic, English, French, Korean, Russian, and Spanish.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
2022 Global Food Policy Report: Climate Change and Food Systems
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Knowledge Management
Food Security
The report discusses innovations and policy responses to climate change that can support food and nutrition security, livelihoods, and sustainable food systems. These include transforming food systems, trade reforms, social protection, climate finance, and clean energy, among others.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
GAIN Podcast Series: Fostering a Culture of Food Safety
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Knowledge Management
Food Safety
Speakers discuss what it means to foster a culture of food safety and how to build one to reduce the burden of foodborne disease. This is a podcast.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Sustainable and Resilient Indigenous Peoples' Food Systems for Improved Nutrition: Digital Toolbox
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Knowledge Management
Maternal Nutrition
The toolbox and participatory videos provide guidelines to design, implement, monitor, and supervise projects to improve Indigenous Peoples’ diets and nutrition, particularly by leveraging local food biodiversity. Materials are available in English, French, and Spanish.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Mitigating Impacts of Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine on Global Food Security & Nutrition
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Knowledge Management
COVID-19Food SecurityResilience
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is contributing to rising food, fuel, and fertilizer prices around the world, which are particularly impactful for communities already experiencing increased poverty, hunger, and malnutrition due to COVID-19, climate change, and protracted conflict.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Advancements in Understanding Breastmilk: Learning from the BEGIN Project
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Knowledge Management
Breastfeeding
The Breastmilk Ecology: Genesis of Infant Nutrition (BEGIN) project analyzes human milk by exploring it as a complex biological system and examining its interactions with its internal (parental biology) and external (infant interactions) environments. This webinar presents findings of the BEGIN project and discusses its implications moving forward.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
It’s Time to Nourish Africa Once and for All
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WastingFood SecurityNutrition Sensitive Agriculture
African Leaders for Nutrition proposes securing investments for a comprehensive nutrition action plan, identifying cost-effective interventions that can be quickly and easily delivered, and encouraging Africa’s leaders to show accountability as they work to end hunger. The Continental Nutrition Accountability Scorecard can frame and track implementation of these priority efforts.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
How Hinga Weze Supported Smallholder Farmers to Improve Crop Productivity, Incomes, and Nutritional Status
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Knowledge Management
Infant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)Maternal NutritionNutrition Sensitive Agriculture
Hinga Weze trained and supported farmers, partnered with financial institutions and business development service providers to create agricultural loan products, created and strengthened solidarity savings groups, and strengthened extension services.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
COVID-19 & Global Food Security: 2 Years Later
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Knowledge Management
COVID-19Food SecurityResilience
The report examines the COVID-19 pandemic’s effect on poverty, food security, nutrition, and health globally. It presents key lessons on food security and food system resilience and assesses policy responses to the crisis. Authors consider how the pandemic experience can inform recovery and longer-term efforts to build more resilient food systems.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Building Climate Resilience for Nutrition
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Knowledge Management
WastingBreastfeedingFood SecurityNutrition Sensitive Agriculture
Protecting, promoting, and supporting breastfeeding reduces emissions related to livestock care and milk production, farming, production of containers, transportation associated with distribution systems, and disposal of associated waste.