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Integrating Food and Nutrition Security and Early Childhood Development in Community Development Programming: Monitoring and Supervision Tool
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Food SystemsNutrition and Health Systems
Food Security
This monitoring and supervision tool was largely developed to monitor the integration of food and nutrition security and early childhood development issues (with an emphasis on communicating and playing with children) into community development programming in Uganda.
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
CMAM Costing Tool
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Food SystemsNutrition and Health Systems
Food SecurityInfant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)
This Microsoft Excel-based application estimates the costs of establishing, maintaining, and/or expanding services for community-based management of acute malnutrition (CMAM) at the national, subnational, and district levels.
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
Comparative Analysis of Shock Response Programs and Their Impacts on Resilience in Zimbabwe
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Food Systems
Emergency NutritionResilience
In this study, researchers analyzed approaches used by World Vision Zimbabwe and partners (WVZP) to strengthen resilience against drought, climate change, and other climatic shocks that exert pressure on Zimbabwe’s economy, which relies heavily on rain-fed agriculture. Qualitative methods involved focus group discussions with communities and government and development partner officials.
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
Understanding the Agricultural Income Pathway
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Food Systems
Economic GrowthNutrition Sensitive Agriculture
This brief focuses on the pathway from agricultural income to better diets, health, and nutrition. However, all of the pathways are interrelated. Agricultural activities typically affect more than one pathway and interact with the enabling environment that includes policies, the natural resource base, and cultural practices, among other factors.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Women’s Empowerment, Food Security and Nutrition of Pastoral Communities in Tanzania
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Nutrition in Humanitarian ContextsFood Systems
Scholars increasingly point to women’s empowerment as a means to enhance food security and nutrition; however, little is understood about the mechanisms that drive these relationships. This analysis uses a mixed methods approach to examine these interactions in Tanzanian pastoral communities.
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
Is Women's Empowerment a Pathway to Improving Child Nutrition Outcomes in a Nutrition-Sensitive Agriculture Program? Evidence from a Randomized Controlled Trial in Burkina Faso
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Food SystemsMonitoring, Evaluation, and Learning
To explore the link between women’s empowerment and improved child nutrition, this study evaluated the outcomes of a nutrition- and gender-sensitive agriculture program in Burkina Faso. The results provide the first experimental evidence that efforts to increase women’s empowerment can lead to improved child nutrition.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Development of the Project-Level Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Index (Pro-WEAI)
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Food Systems
Researchers recently adapted the widely used Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Index (WEAI) to develop a measurement tool that can help agricultural development projects better monitor and measure their impact. The tool restructures and adds indicators to measure project impact across groups and over time.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
IDH Gender Toolkit
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Food Systems
Globally, women often face barriers to agricultural supply chains. IDH developed this toolkit to help programmers integrate gender into their supply chain approaches by changing business practices, improving sector governance, and increasing field-level sustainability.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Crafting the Next Generation of CGIAR Research: Policy Seminar
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Food Systems
This seminar shared important messages from an upcoming CGIAR report and book on gender research in agriculture and natural resource management. The publications will synthesize current research and propose a forward-looking agenda for future research in this area.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Progress of the World’s Women 2019-2020. Families in a Changing World
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Early Childhood DevelopmentFood Systems
As this landmark report points out, families can be, “places of love, care, and fulfillment but, too often, they are also spaces where women’s and girls’ rights are violated, their voices are stifled, and where gender inequality prevails.” To counter this reality, the report proposes affordable family-friendly policies to advance gender equality in
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Early Childhood Development Through a Gender Lens: Designing Policies that Work for the Whole Family
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Early Childhood DevelopmentFood Systems
The links between early childhood development and women’s economic empowerment were the subject of the fifth annual Birdsall House Conference on Women.
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
Nutrition-sensitive Agriculture: Applying the Income Pathway: Technical Guidance Brief
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Food SystemsNutrition-Sensitive Agriculture Design Guide Community of Practice
Nutrition Sensitive Agriculture
The relationship between poverty and malnutrition is evident in a wide range of contexts, but decades of development experience shows that even when incomes rise, households do not necessarily prioritize the purchase and consumption of diverse, nutrient-rich diets.
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
Integrating Nutrition in Value Chains in Malawi
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Food Systems
Nutrition Sensitive Agriculture
This analysis found that the care group model for nutrition and health promotion was successful and should be continued or expanded. This report provides recommendations for improving the Feed the Future program in Malawi, based on significant change stories and input from nutrition promoters.
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
Designing Effective Nutrition-Sensitive Agriculture Activities
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Food Systems
Nutrition Sensitive Agriculture
This workshop provides guidance, recommendations, and ideas for individuals charged with training others on nutrition-sensitive agriculture. This is the seventh of seven sessions included in the Nutrition-Sensitive Agriculture Training Resource Package. Unlike the first six sessions, this is a full workshop that can be conducted over 2 to 3 days after any of the preceding sessions, as needed.
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
U.S. Government Global Food Security Toolbox -- A Guide to Food Security and Nutrition Development Resources
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Food Systems
Nutrition Sensitive Agriculture
This toolbox highlights the tools and resources that the U.S. Government and its partners use to address global food security and nutrition challenges throughout the world. These tools support the main objectives of the Global Food Security Strategy.
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
Uganda Legacy Brief: Strengthening Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Programming in Uganda
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Food Systems
Nutrition Sensitive Agriculture
This legacy brief describes the Food and Nutrition Technical Assistance Project (FANTA) Project’s multi-sectoral nutrition work in Uganda from 2007 to 2014.
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
Tool for Framing a Discussion Between Nutrition and Agriculture Specialists
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Food Systems
Nutrition Sensitive Agriculture
This tool aims to facilitate agreement between agriculture specialists and nutrition specialists as they jointly design project interventions aimed at improving nutrition for vulnerable women and children under age 2.
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
Promoting Nutrition Sensitive EAS
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Food Systems
Nutrition Sensitive Agriculture
Extension advisory services support smallholders to improve the productivity and efficiency of their farms and make business decisions. The smallholders and households addressed by these services are also often food insecure and suffer chronic or acute forms of malnutrition, which affects the physical and cognitive growth of children and reduces productivity.
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
Potential for Nutrition-Sensitive Conservation Agriculture in Zambia
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Food Systems
Nutrition Sensitive Agriculture
In 2015, Concern Worldwide conducted a study in Zambia to inform how agricultural interventions based on conservation agriculture practices can integrate nutrition considerations. The study engaged stakeholders to identify opportunities for using conservation agriculture to improve household diets (and thus contribute to improved nutrition) and advance the situation for women.