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Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Social Media for Behaviour Change (SM4BC) Toolkit
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Knowledge Management
The toolkit focuses on using social media to encourage behavior change in the context of disaster preparedness and risk reduction. It is available in English and Spanish.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Human Resources for Care of Small and Sick Newborns: The Role of Midwives and Nurses in Protecting, Promoting, and Supporting Breastfeeding
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Knowledge Management
Midwives, nurses and physicians play a critical role in protecting, promoting, and supporting breastfeeding in health facilities. Part of a series coordinated with the Network for Improving Quality of Care for Maternal, Newborn and Child Health and NEST360, this webinar highlights the experiences of practitioners in Nepal and Rwanda.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Breastfeeding: Not Just Mom’s Job—How USAID Promotes and Protects Breastfeeding
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Knowledge Management
Breastfeeding
Optimal breastfeeding is one of the most powerful solutions to save the lives of infants and children. Improving breastfeeding extends beyond supporting the woman and child—requiring encouragement and support from skilled counselors, family members, health care providers, employers, policymakers, and others.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
USAID Breastfeeding: Providing a Healthy Start for a Healthy Future
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Knowledge Management
Breastfeeding
This one minute animated video discusses the benefits of breastfeeding for both baby and mother. USAID has worked with partners for more than 40 years to promote breastfeeding in programs and policies, helping families chart productive and prosperous futures for their children, and supporting communities to thrive.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Feeding Young Children during the COVID-19 Pandemic: Ensuring Their Future Growth and Development
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Knowledge Management
Breastfeeding
Healthy complementary feeding after 6 months of age requires foods from four food groups daily. In addition to breastfeeding, babies need 2–3 meals and one snack per day. Sugary snacks and formula are unhealthy options for young children.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Breastfeeding in the 21st Century
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Knowledge Management
Breastfeeding
Countries need to invest in policies and programs that support women’s breastfeeding decisions. Promoting lactation-friendly employment conditions, and ensuring the availability of health services that support women and their families in breastfeeding, are particularly important.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
2021 World Health Day: Improve Global Breastfeeding Practices
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Knowledge Management
BreastfeedingCOVID-19
All actors should take a public health approach to strengthen the Baby-Friendly Hospital Initiative and breastfeeding counseling, including during emergencies; implement maternal social protection that includes paid leave and workplace support in the formal and informal sectors; advocate for greater access to skilled breastfeeding counseling; and reinforce support for breastfeeding dyads by dev
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
The Lancet Breastfeeding Series
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Knowledge Management
Breastfeeding
Papers describe global breastfeeding trends, short- and long-term health consequences for mother and child, determinants of breastfeeding, the impact of investment in breastfeeding, the effectiveness of promotion interventions, and the need for coordinated global action to address breast milk substitutes.
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
USAID Breastfeeding: Providing a Healthy Start for a Healthy Future
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Early Childhood DevelopmentKnowledge ManagementNutrition and Health SystemsGender Equality and Women’s Empowerment
BreastfeedingEarly Childhood DevelopmentInfant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)Maternal NutritionNutrition Assessment, Counseling, and Support (NACS)
For more than 40 years, the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) has promoted breastfeeding to save lives, prevent malnutrition, and enhance the long-term health and prosperity of women and children. By promoting breastfeeding in programs and policies, USAID is helping families chart productive and prosperous for their children and supporting communities to thrive.
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
USAID Advancing Nutrition Burkina Faso Fact Sheet
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Knowledge Management
Micronutrient Interventions
This one-page fact sheet describes USAID Advancing Nutrition's support to the government of Burkina Faso as it works to reduce micronutrient deficiencies and the prevalence of undernutrition in children under 5 years of age.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Increasing Breastmilk Supply
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Knowledge Management
Breastfeeding
The poster focuses on increasing breastmilk supply by adopting skin-to-skin contact, frequent breastfeeding, and breast compression practices. It is available in Bulgarian, Chinese (traditional and simplified), English, German, Greek, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Spanish, Ukrainian, and Vietnamese.
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
USAID Advancing Nutrition Tanzania Fact Sheet
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Knowledge Management
Nutrition Sensitive Agriculture
This fact sheet in English and Swahili describes USAID Advancing Nutrition's support to the Government of the United Republic of Tanzania as it seeks to address malnutrition in the country. This support includes direct technical assistance at the national level.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Adolescent Nutrition Resource Bank
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Knowledge Management
Adolescent NutritionFood SafetyFood SecurityInfant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)Nutrition Sensitive Agriculture
The Adolescent Nutrition Resource Bank is a collection of over 150 resources gathered, summarized and presented in a user-friendly online platform.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
CLA in the Time of COVID-19: Adapting, Pivoting and Partnering to Maintain Nutrition Progress
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Knowledge Management
COVID-19
The USAID framework for Collaborating, Learning, and Adapting supports partners to adapt during unanticipated challenges using real-time evidence.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Challenges and Opportunities in Measuring Knowledge Management Results and Development Impact (Part 2)
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Knowledge Management
These papers discuss a framework for measuring the impact of organizational learning and adaptive management, the benefits of using a relative return on investment paradigm, knowledge management (KM) solutions as applied to work processes, measuring KM capacities to strengthen health systems, the institutionalization of KM strategies in agricultural research, and the use of critical discourse a
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Revisiting the Evidence on Kwashiorkor Malnutrition
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Knowledge Management
WastingInfant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)
Researchers and practitioners review recent evidence related to kwashiorkor, including treatment, diet, and associated biochemical mechanisms, overt signs, and the metabolic and biochemical characterization of kwashiorkor. This is a series of three webinars.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Dangerous Assumptions #1: More Income = More Food and Nutrition Security?
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Knowledge Management
Economic GrowthFood SecurityPrivate-Sector Engagement
There is a lack of consensus about whether income alone leads to greater food and nutrition security. Some argue that higher incomes lead nations to focus on other priorities at the expense of food production and nutrition, while others believe that higher incomes lead to greater access to inputs and land, which in turn leads to higher-quality food production.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Stronger With Breast Milk Only
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Knowledge Management
Breastfeeding
This initiative promotes giving babies breastmilk only from their birth through the first six months of life. Materials include presentations, calls to action, questions and answers, and fact sheets. All materials are available in English and French.
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
Learning from the USAID Nutrition Innovation Lab Partnerships
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Food SystemsKnowledge ManagementMonitoring, Evaluation, and Learning
USAID Advancing Nutrition engaged in a learning activity with the USAID Nutrition Innovation Lab to document experiences on partnering and develop recommendations on how innovation labs can partner to improve nutrition outcomes.
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
Key Messages Related to Evidence on Transmission of COVID in Breastmilk
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Knowledge ManagementMonitoring, Evaluation, and Learning
BreastfeedingCOVID-19Emergency NutritionFood SafetyInfant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)
This two-page brief presents key messages on research related to COVID-19 transmission through human breastmilk. The brief was prepared on behalf of the COVID-19 Infant Feeding Working Group and is current as of September 2020.