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.
Effective Actions for Improving Adolescent Nutrition
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Adolescent NutritionMaternal NutritionReproductive Health
This publication summarizes WHO evidence-informed recommendations and principles related to adolescent malnutrition. It complements the WHO recommendations on adolescent health, with an emphasis on the implementation of nutrition-specific and nutrition-sensitive interventions for adolescents.
Targeted to WHO staff, policymakers, program managers, and health professionals, this publication presents all WHO recommendations on adolescent health. It provides recommendations about interventions for adolescents and adolescents health behaviors. The compilation includes sections on nutrition, diet, and physical activity.
Conceptual Framework for Adolescent Girls' Nutrition
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Adolescent Nutrition
This one-page conceptual framework was developed to guide the 2016 USAID study "Diet and Eating Practices among Adolescent Girls in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: A Systematic Review." The framework depicts the many factors that influence adolescent girls' nutrition and their impact on short-term, long-term, and intergenerational consequences.
This 15-module course focuses on adolescents' nutrition needs. Five modules cover adolescent nutrition and its impacts; another five address global guidance, adolescent pregnancy, and partnerships and programs; and the final five discuss the links between nutrition and education, health systems, monitoring and assessment, data gaps and research, and engaging adolescents.
Diet and Eating Practices among Adolescent Girls in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: A Systematic Review
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Adolescent Nutrition
This report presents an overview of the findings of 288 studies that addressed the diet and eating practices of adolescent girls in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). The report includes recommendations related to obesity prevention initiatives, school-based policies, and school meal programs.
Dietary Intake of Schoolchildren and Adolescents in Developing Countries
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Adolescent Nutrition
This article provides an overview of the findings of 50 studies published from 2000-2014 that examined the patterns of dietary intake and the adequacy of nutrient intake of schoolchildren and adolescents in developing countries. The article concludes that children, adolescents, parents, schools, and communities need education about healthy eating habits.
Adolescent Nutrition Policy and Programming in SUN countries
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Monitoring, Evaluation, and LearningBuilding Global ConsensusAdolescent Nutrition
This report highlights the importance of adolescent nutrition and describes adolescent nutrition interventions, national policies, and the roles and responsibilities of adolescent services in Scaling Up Nutrition (SUN) countries and India. It also provides recommendations related to international policy, promising interventions, and research.
Adolescent Age and Life Stage Assessment and Tools and Counseling Cards
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This resource includes eight tools organized by age (i.e., very young and older adolescents) and life stage (i.e., sexual activity, marital status, and first-time parent). The tools are designed to help health providers to focus their counseling based on an adolescent's age and life stage and support adolescents to consider their sexual and reproductive health risk and protective factors.
Program Guidance: Engaging Family Members in Improving Maternal and Child Nutrition
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Improving Women and Children’s Diets in Emergency ContextsSocial and Behavior Change and GenderGender Equality and Women’s EmpowermentGenderInfant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)
This guidance translates research findings into practical recommendations for interventions that effectively engage family members in the care and feeding of children. You will find recommendations for engaging family members at key points in the program cycle in ways that support mothers and other primary caregivers and avoid negative consequences.
Nurturing Care to Improve Early Childhood Development: Uganda Country Profile
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Early Childhood DevelopmentEarly Childhood Development
To date, there has been limited integration of responsive care and early learning in health and nutrition services. The Nurturing Care Framework provides guidance to help children and families thrive through care for the individual child within a broader enabling environment of capable caregivers, empowered communities, supportive services, and enabling policies (WHO 2018).
Nurturing Care to Improve Early Childhood Development: Rwanda Country Profile
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Early Childhood DevelopmentEarly Childhood Development
To date, there has been limited integration of responsive care and early learning in health and nutrition services. The Nurturing Care Framework provides guidance to help children and families thrive through care for the individual child within a broader enabling environment of capable caregivers, empowered communities, supportive services, and enabling policies (WHO 2018).
Nurturing Care to Improve Early Childhood Development: Kenya Country Profile
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Early Childhood DevelopmentEarly Childhood DevelopmentInfant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)
To date, there has been limited integration of responsive care and early learning in health and nutrition services. The Nurturing Care Framework provides guidance to help children and families thrive through care for the individual child within a broader enabling environment of capable caregivers, empowered communities, supportive services, and enabling policies (WHO 2018).
Transitioning Nutrition Financing from USAID to Domestic Resources
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Capacity StrengtheningMonitoring, Evaluation, and LearningEconomic Growth
Sustainable financing for nutrition often occurs when nutrition activities and investments are incorporated into government-managed budgets and backed by predictable financing from domestic revenues. This guidance provides recommendations for USAID to establish practices to improve the long-term sustainability of USAID nutrition programming by transitioning to domestic plans and resources.
Interim Recommendations for Adjusting Food Distribution Standard Operating Procedures in the Context of the COVID-19 Outbreak
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Nutrition in Humanitarian ContextsCOVID-19Food SecurityResilienceWater, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH)
This Interim Guidance is intended for field coordinators, site managers and public health personnel, as well as national and local governments and the wider humanitarian community working in humanitarian situations at food distribution sites, who are involved in the decision making and implementation of multi-sectorial COVID-19 outbreak readiness and response activities – the Guidance is theref
IFPRI’s new COVID-19 Food Price Monitor tracks warning signs of stress in local markets
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Nutrition in Humanitarian ContextsFood SystemsMonitoring, Evaluation, and LearningCOVID-19Food Security
The Food Price Monitor from IFPRI allows users to track changes in food prices since the start of COVID-19 social distancing measures. Daily updates of prices in wholesale and retail markets are provided for a wide range of key food products.
Frontline Nutrition Service Delivery A Comparison of Packages for Policymakers and Program Managers
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Early Childhood DevelopmentResponsive Care and Early Learning Addendum for IYCF CounselingNutrition and Health SystemsBreastfeedingInfant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)Maternal Nutrition
Nutrition program packages—such as the Nutrition Assessment, Counseling, and Support (NACS) toolkit, the Integration Management of Neonatal and Childhood Illnesses (IMNCI), the Integrated Community Case Management (iCCM) approach, and Essential Nutrition Actions/Essential Health Actions (ENA/EHA) framework for example—typically include training materials and job aids designed to improve nutriti
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.
Key Messages Related to Evidence on Transmission of COVID in Breastmilk
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Knowledge ManagementMonitoring, Evaluation, and LearningBreastfeedingCOVID-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.
Knowledge ManagementMonitoring, Evaluation, and LearningCOVID-19
COVID-19 has changed many aspects of life around the world, forcing organizations and projects to quickly reassess and adapt programming as the pandemic spread across the globe. As the pandemic evolves, USAID Advancing Nutrition continuously reflects on activities and work plans to identify necessary pivots to continue delivering high-quality work while minimizing risk.
Social and Behavior Change Helps Improve Nutrition
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Social and Behavior Change and Gender
Multi-sectoral social and behavior change for nutrition can take many forms, from agriculture extension to health counseling and much, much more. This infographic describes the different types of social and behavior change needed by different actors to sustain improved nutrition outcomes.