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Mozambique Growth Charts and Tables for Children and Adolescents
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Nutrition and Health Systems
Nutrition Assessment, Counseling, and Support (NACS)
The booklets cover the four indices for different age groups: weight-for-height/length, height/length-for-age, weight-for-age, and body mass index-for-age. Two booklets provide growth tables for girls and boys and two provide growth charts for girls and boys.
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
Job Aids for Malawi Frontline Health Workers Offering Community-Based Management of Acute Malnutrition (CMAM) Services
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Nutrition and Health Systems
Nutrition Assessment, Counseling, and Support (NACS)
The U.S. Government's Global Food Security Strategy presents an integrated approach to combating the root causes of hunger, malnutrition, and poverty. This guidance on nutrition is one of 18 technical guidance documents intended to provide a shared understanding of key concepts and best practices for designing and implementing Feed the Future programs under the Global Food Security Strategy.
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Integration of Nutrition Assessment, Counseling, and Support into Routine Health Service Delivery
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Nutrition and Health Systems
Nutrition Assessment, Counseling, and Support (NACS)
This technical brief includes information on strategic approaches, achievements attained, lessons learned, and challenges encountered during program implementation in the Ntungamo District in southwestern Uganda.
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.
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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.
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Integrating Nutrition Assessment, Counseling, and Support into Health Service Delivery—Training Course for Facility-Based Providers in Uganda
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Nutrition and Health Systems
Nutrition Assessment, Counseling, and Support (NACS)
The course aims to improve the capacity of health service providers at all levels to better integrate nutrition assessment, counseling, and support into all health service delivery points.
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Improving Pre-Service Nutrition Education and Training of Frontline Health Care Providers
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Nutrition and Health Systems
Nutrition Assessment, Counseling, and Support (NACS)
This technical brief, aimed at government ministries, pre-service teaching institutions, and other stakeholders, describes the process and methods the Food and Nutrition Technical Assistance Project (FANTA) Project used to strengthen pre-service nutrition education and training of frontline health care providers.
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Improve Your Health with Nutritious Foods: Individualize Nutrition Guidance for Clients
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Nutrition and Health Systems
Nutrition Assessment, Counseling, and Support (NACS)
This collection of nutrition cards instructs clients who have been assessed as severely malnourished, moderately malnourished, healthy weight, overweight, and obese on the types and amounts of foods they should eat.
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Implementation Science: Translating Nutrition Research into Practice
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Nutrition and Health Systems
Nutrition Assessment, Counseling, and Support (NACS)
This case study gives several examples of how theoretical nutrition interventions have been translated into practice. The report identifies successes and failures, problems and solutions, in a variety of nutrition interventions tried by the U.S. Agency for International Development in several different countries.
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Haiti: Exploring Approaches to Building Capacity for Nutrition Assessment, Counseling, and Support Services
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Nutrition and Health Systems
Nutrition Assessment, Counseling, and Support (NACS)
Given the need to strengthen nutrition services within health systems, the Strengthening Partnerships, Results, and Innovations in Nutrition Globally (SPRING) project has explored the advantages and disadvantages of two approaches they use in Haiti for rolling out trainings on infant and young child feeding and nutrition assessment, counseling, and support for health facility staff.
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Ghana Nutrition Assessment, Counseling, and Support (NACS) Training Materials for Facility-Based Service Providers
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Nutrition and Health Systems
Nutrition Assessment, Counseling, and Support (NACS)
This set of training materials provides health care service providers the information needed to implement, monitor, and report on nutrition assessment, counseling, and support in Ghana.
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Focus on Families and Culture: A Guide for Conducting a Participatory Assessment on Maternal and Child Nutrition
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Nutrition and Health Systems
Nutrition Assessment, Counseling, and Support (NACS)
This state-of-the-art, user-friendly guide is for program managers and planners conducting a maternal and child health and nutrition assessments to investigate intra-household roles and influence. The guide introduces a holistic, or systemic, framework that can assist program staff to more effectively identify key priority groups for interventions.
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Cote d’Ivoire Nutrition Counseling Flipchart (Actions Essentielles en Nutrition Plus)
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Nutrition and Health Systems
Nutrition Assessment, Counseling, and Support (NACS)
The Food and Nutrition Technical Assistance Project (FANTA) Project, in collaboration with UNICEF, developed a French-language counseling flipchart that provides health care providers and community workers with a set of visual aids and messages to enhance and facilitate interpersonal communication on a variety of nutrition topics.
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Cote d’Ivoire Nutrition Assessment, Counseling and Support (NACS) Job Aids
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Nutrition and Health Systems
Nutrition Assessment, Counseling, and Support (NACS)
The Food and Nutrition Technical Assistance Project (FANTA) Project, in collaboration with Cote d’Ivoire’s National Nutrition Program, developed nutrition assessment, counseling and support job aids for health facilities providers.
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
Advocacy to Reduce Malnutrition: Using PROFILES and Nutrition Costing
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Nutrition and Health Systems
Nutrition Assessment, Counseling, and Support (NACS)
The Food and Nutrition Technical Assistance Project (FANTA) Project has facilitated nutrition advocacy in several countries using a nutrition advocacy tool, PROFILES, and has developed country-specific nutrition costing models. The estimates generated from this tool and models are the cornerstone of this nutrition advocacy process.
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A Cost of The Diet Analysis in Azraq Refugee Camp, Jordan
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Nutrition and Health Systems
Nutrition Assessment, Counseling, and Support (NACS)
International Medical Corps led a training and assessment among Syrian refugees in Azraq Camp in July 2016.
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
Nutritious Agriculture by Design: A Tool for Program Design
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Food Systems
Nutrition Sensitive Agriculture
This tool is designed for agricultural projects designers worldwide to narrow the gap between the goal of raising income and productivity and the goal of improving nutrition. The starting point for the tool is specific interventions to strengthen agriculture-nutrition linkages or interventions that could be directed to this end.
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
Nutritional Impact Assessment Tool
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Food Systems
Nutrition Sensitive Agriculture
This four-page fact sheet summarizes ways that agriculture projects can maximize nutrition and food security of women, children, and other vulnerable groups. It offers examples of what works and what does not and recommends design strategies that can increase nutritional benefits.
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Nutrition and Food Security Impacts of Agriculture Projects: A Review of Experience
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Food Systems
Nutrition Sensitive Agriculture
This document summarizes the Infant and Young Child Nutrition Project's review of more than 30 years of studies examining food security and nutrition impacts of agricultural projects in low-income countries. Findings revealed that it is possible to anticipate food security and nutrition impacts and that agricultural projects can be oriented in ways that maximize positive outcomes.