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.
Ethiopia Nutrition Education Training for Agriculture Extension Officers: Training Sessions and Resources
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Food SystemsNutrition Sensitive Agriculture
This manual is designed to be an aid to facilitate training workshops for agricultural extension officers working under the U.S. Agency for International Development’s Urban Gardens Program. The training aims to improve participants’ knowledge of nutrition and to build skills in integrating nutrition education into existing agriculture activities. The manual also includes nutrition education…
Global Food Security Strategy Technical Guidance on Youth
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Food SystemsFood Security
This technical guide provides a shared understanding of key concepts and best practices for designing and implementing Feed the Future programs under the Global Food Security Strategy. Aid effectiveness principles are core to implementation across the technical areas. The strategy reflects lessons learned from Feed the Future’s first phase and charts a course for the U.S.
Counselling Cards: Hygiene Practices - Sierra Leone
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Nutrition in Humanitarian ContextsNutrition and Health SystemsSocial and Behavior Change and GenderWater, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH)
The Strengthening Partnerships, Results, and Innovations in Nutrition Globally (SPRING) project created of a set of counseling cards to address key complementary feeding and water, sanitation, and hygiene behaviors in Sierra Leone.
Global Food Security Strategy (GFSS) Kenya Country Plan
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Food SystemsFood Security
This plan describes the key drivers of food insecurity, malnutrition, and poverty in Kenya and serves as an overarching framework for integrated food security and nutrition programming.
The Global Food Security Strategy (GFSS) calls for expanding work in improving nutrition and resilience. This course underscores the U.S. Agency for Development (USAID) focus on food security development and incorporates USAID’s vision for food security and agriculture development under the GFSS. The course is designed for USAID staff implementing Feed the Future country-level activities.
Enhancing Nutrition And Food Security During The First 1,000 Days Through Gender-Sensitive Social And Behavior Change
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Food SystemsFood Security
This technical resource guide, along with the complementary technical brief, is designed to strengthen the capacity of development practitioners working in nutrition and food security to plan, implement, and evaluate gender-sensitive social and behavioral change programming in order to improve nutritional outcomes for pregnant and lactating women and children under 2.
Desk Review of Programs Integrating Family Planning with Food Security and Nutrition
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Food SystemsFood Safety
This report synthesizes learnings from 102 health and multisectoral programs, including a rich set of program examples and three case studies, to illustrate the various ways programs are integrating family planning with nutrition and food security interventions.
An important Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) component is the Acute Food Insecurity Reference Table for Household Group Classification (household reference table), which provides qualitative, graduated descriptions of five acute food insecurity phases, along with thresholds for key household-level outcome indicators that can be used to classify the severity of acute food ins
Community Mobilization on Food and Nutrition Security: Materials for Community Development Officers and Mobilizers in Uganda
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Food SystemsFood Security
The Food and Nutrition Technical Assistance Project (FANTA) and the Uganda Ministry of Gender, Labour and Social Development worked together to develop a user-friendly package of materials to strengthen the capacity of community development officers and mobilizers to improve food and nutrition security within communities in Uganda.
Achieving Nutritional Impact and Food Security through Agriculture
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Food SystemsFood Security
This four-page fact sheet summarizes ways that agriculture projects can maximize nutrition and food security for 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.
A Guide to Developing a Knowledge Management Strategy for a Food Security and Nutrition Program
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Food SystemsFood Security
The purpose of this guide is to assist teams to develop a knowledge management strategy that focuses on improving performance and the quality of implementation within food security and nutrition programs. The guide aims to provide practical guidance to staff at different levels within development organizations.
Essential Nutrition Actions and Essential Hygiene Actions Framework
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Food SystemsNutrition Sensitive Agriculture
The Essential Nutrition Actions framework delivers a set of evidence-based interventions to improve nutritional status during the first 1,000 days, targeting pregnant and lactating women and their young children. The framework defines the right action to be taken by the right person at the right time in the life cycle.
Advanced Workshop on Designing for Behavior Change: Focus on Activities
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Social and Behavior Change and Gender
This 3-day curriculum was developed for experienced Designing for Behavior Change (DBC) practitioners. It emphasizes the important step of designing activities that directly link to the results of formative research. The DBC approach was developed to help designers think more critically when developing and reviewing a behavior change strategy.
‘Perception matters’: New insights into the subjective dimension of resilience in the context of humanitarian and food security crises
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Food SystemsEmergency NutritionResilience
In this article, the authors investigate the relevance of people’s perceptions about their own ability to handle current and future events (referred to as "subjective resilience") in the context of emerging literature on resilience in relation to humanitarian and food security interventions. They hypothesize that subjective resilience is key in strengthening people’s resilience.
Feed the Future Learning Agenda Literature Review: Improving Resilience of Vulnerable Populations
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Food SystemsEmergency NutritionResilience
International and humanitarian development actors are increasingly adopting resilience as an organizing concept for food security policy and program development.
Enhancing Resilience to Severe Droughts: What Works?
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Food SystemsEmergency NutritionResilience
Can investing in resilience mitigate the worst impacts of recurrent humanitarian crises, preserving development gains? To answer this question, Mercy Corps conducted a study in USAID-funded Pastoralist Areas Resilience Improvement through Market Expansion (PRIME) project areas affected by the 2015–2016 El Niño drought in Ethiopia.
Constant Gardeners: An Impact Assessment of Permagardens in Karamoja, Uganda - A Climate Smart Agriculture Approach
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Food SystemsNutrition Sensitive Agriculture
This report presents the results of an impact assessment of permagarden activities in Karamoja, Uganda. The aim of the study was to assess whether the permagarden activities strengthened the resilience of households to cope with and recover from food insecurity in the region. The permagarden method combines the concepts of permaculture and bio-intensive agriculture, and uses locally available…
"Grow Together" Campaign in Cambodia: A Game-changer for Children’s Healthy Growth
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Social and Behavior Change and Gender
Grow Together is a social and behavior change communication campaign strategically designed to reduce stunting in rural Cambodia. The campaign promoted the sustained use of key practices in health and nutrition; water, sanitation, and hygiene; and agriculture.
Building a Shared Vision for Good Nutrition, Growth, and Development in the Community
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Food SystemsEconomic Growth
There is broad agreement that nutrition is a multi-sectoral problem, yet nutrition-related services are often still delivered in sector-specific silos. Recognizing the many factors affecting nutrition, countries around the world have developed multi-sectoral strategies, policies, and plans for addressing malnutrition.