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Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Data4Diets: Building Blocks for Diet-Related Food Security Analysis
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Knowledge ManagementMonitoring, Evaluation, and Learning
Nutrition Assessment, Counseling, and Support (NACS)
The new Data4Diets platform is a multi-dimensional tool that can help program implementers, policymakers, and researchers measure food safety through the use of various indicators and data sources. This webinar explained the functionality of the Data4Diets platform and it’s organizing framework. Presenters demonstrated how to use the platform’s online tools.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
What Do You Want To Know? FAO’s New Open Data Policy Makes Fact-Finding and Information Sharing Easier
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Knowledge ManagementMonitoring, Evaluation, and Learning
In January 2020, the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) unveiled its open data policy for statistical databases. This article highlights what kinds of information can be found in the databases, including facts on the types of foods consumed globally. For instance, did you know that bananas are the most consumed fruit in the world?
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Levels and Trends in Child Malnutrition: Key Findings of the 2020 Edition of the Joint Child Malnutrition Estimates
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Early Childhood DevelopmentKnowledge ManagementMonitoring, Evaluation, and Learning
WastingGrowth Monitoring and Promotion
The rates of both stunting and wasting are still alarmingly high in many parts of the world, especially among young children. This report by UNICEF, WHO, and the World Bank highlights key findings from the analysis of data related to global estimates of malnutrition, including the prevalence of stunting and wasting.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
The New Nutrition Facts Label: What’s in It for You?
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Knowledge Management
Adolescent NutritionFood Safety
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has rolled out an update to the nutrition facts label on packaged food and drinks that aligns with the latest nutrition science as well as public input.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
National Nutrition Month® Campaign
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Knowledge ManagementSocial and Behavior Change and Gender
Adolescent Nutrition
With the goal of encouraging healthy eating and informed food choices, the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics launched an educational campaign during the month of March. The campaign’s toolkit includes factsheets, videos, a social media toolkit, and articles. These materials cover diet, meal planning, cooking, and information on the role of registered dietitian nutritionists.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Empowering Women for Food Security
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Food SystemsKnowledge Management
Empowering women is one of the key ways we can work to improve food security for all. In this factsheet, Feed the Future provides a brief outline of three actionable steps they are taking to close the “gender gaps” in our food systems: investing in women, engaging men, and measuring empowerment.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
2019 Annual Trends and Outlook Report: Gender Equality in Rural Africa: From Commitments to Outcomes
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Nutrition in Humanitarian ContextsKnowledge Management
The authors use evidence reviews and case studies to demonstrate that increasing female leadership, minimizing women’s institutional barriers, and promoting women’s control of productive assets would produce significant societal gains and reduce the negative impact of gender gaps on African households.
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
Training Supervisors to Mentor Health Workers Who Provide Counselling on Infant and Young Child Feeding
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Knowledge ManagementNutrition and Health Systems
Infant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)
This guide provides facilitators with the technical knowledge and skills they need to help supervisors mentor health workers who provide infant and young child feeding (IYCF) counselling.
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
Karamoja Seasonal Analysis and Intervention Guide
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Knowledge Management
Nutrition Sensitive Agriculture
This guide provides guidance on nutrition-sensitive livelihood interventions that can help strengthen household resilience and ameliorate malnutrition spikes in Uganda. The guide offers specific advice for 2014 while at the same time recommending interventions that can be developed over time to improve baseline resilience. It is designed for U.S.
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
Training Community Volunteers on Nutrition and Hygiene Module Toolkit
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Knowledge ManagementNutrition and Health SystemsSocial and Behavior Change and Gender
Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH)
This toolkit is designed to provide program implementers with training session modules, job aids, and social and behavior change communication materials to help community volunteers and other frontline workers in Kyrgyzstan promote household nutrition and hygiene.
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
Adolescent and Women's Nutrition and Anemia Facilitator Guide
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Knowledge ManagementSocial and Behavior Change and Gender
Adolescent NutritionAnemia
This module is intended to prepare facilitators/trainers with technical knowledge and skills to train doctors and nurses about adolescent and women’s nutrition and anemia throughout the life cycle.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
The Implications of Three Major New Trials for the Effect of Water, Sanitation and Hygiene on Childhood Diarrhea and Stunting: A Consensus Statement
Early Childhood DevelopmentNutrition in Humanitarian ContextsFood SystemsKnowledge ManagementMonitoring, Evaluation, and LearningNutrition and Health SystemsSocial and Behavior Change and Gender
With the results from the SHINE and WASH Benefits trials demonstrating limited impact of basic water, sanitation, hygiene (WASH) on childhood stunting, what role does WASH now play in multi-sectoral nutrition programming?
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World 2019: Safeguarding against Economic Slowdowns and Downturns
Nutrition in Humanitarian ContextsKnowledge ManagementMonitoring, Evaluation, and Learning
The 2019 edition of this annual report indicates that the number of people who suffer from hunger, overweight, and obesity continues to rise, while many people also experience moderate food insecurity. New evidence linking economic downturns to food insecurity and malnutrition is highlighted.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Innovations and Tools in Child Growth Measurement and Data Visualization
Knowledge Management
Making the case for why we need better tools to measure child growth, this publication presents promising technological interventions. It also outlines major challenges to reliable and accurate measurement and discusses the pros and cons of tools that might both address these challenges and aid in data visualization.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
The Changing Face of Malnutrition: The State of the World’s Children 2019
Food SystemsKnowledge ManagementMonitoring, Evaluation, and Learning
This year, UNICEF’s flagship report focuses on children, food, and nutrition, providing new data and analysis on malnutrition and making recommendations for keeping food systems anchored in children’s rights.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
The Asia Food Challenge: Harvesting the Future
Food SystemsKnowledge Management
The authoring organizations of this report foresee significant changes to Asia’s food and agricultural landscapes, with food spending expected to increase by around 7 percent per year over the next decade.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Private Sector in Agricultural Innovation and Development Community of Practice
Knowledge Management
This community of practice, launched in June 2019, showcases examples of and approaches to working with the private sector in international agricultural innovation.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Global Health Nutrition Legacy: Save the Children 100 Years
Knowledge Management
To capture the legacy of its work in global nutrition, Save the Children developed a pithy and colorful report that reviews the organization's efforts to improve the health and nutrition of women, children, and their communities.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Global Data Visualization Tools to Empower Decision-Making in Nutrition
Knowledge Management
As part of the Data for Decisions to Expand Nutrition initiative, Results for Development Institute conducted a landscape analysis of global data visualization tools and a literature review of data visualizations.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
ENN's Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Programme Case Studies
Knowledge Management
The Emergency Nutrition Network conducted case studies of three “high achieving” SUN countries (Bangladesh, Ethiopia, and Niger) with a strong track record in championing and improving undernutrition at a sub-national level.