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.
National Nutrition Program: Village Volunteer Nutrition Job Aid How to Help Mothers and Young Children Stay Healthy
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Nutrition and Health SystemsBreastfeeding
This job aid, developed for village volunteers, includes information on a variety of nutrition practices for mothers and young children. It provides messaging about the importance of antenatal care, proper nutrition during pregnancy and while breastfeeding, postpartum care and newborn contact, and young child health and nutrition.
Community Interventions to Promote Optimal Breastfeeding: Evidence on Early Initiation, Any Breastfeeding, Exclusive Breastfeeding, and Continued Breastfeeding
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Nutrition and Health SystemsBreastfeeding
This brief summarizes a review of literature on community breastfeeding support programs to inform the creation and implementation of similar programs. It contains large amounts of information on types of interventions, program designs, and program impacts. The review makes several general recommendations for programs.
Nutrition-Sensitive Agriculture Design Guide: Practical Guidance For Implementing Partners Webinar
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Food SystemsNutrition-Sensitive Agriculture Design Guide Community of Practice
Applying nutrition-sensitive agriculture continues to challenge development practitioners all over the world. USAID Advancing Nutrition recently finalized the Nutrition-Sensitive Agriculture Design Guide—a facilitator’s guide with accompanying slides and handouts for a 3-day workshop for newly awarded USAID-funded agriculture projects.
Monitoring, Evaluation, and LearningMicronutrient Interventions
This Microsoft Excel-based tool allows you to present information on the anemia situation in your country in a format that can be shared with stakeholders.
Social and Behavior Change and GenderAdolescent Nutrition
This report details the findings and recommendations of a multi-method qualitative research study for social and behavior change communication programs supporting improved nutrition practices among adolescent girls in Ethiopia.
National Guidelines on Nutrition Care, Support, and Treatment (NCST) for Adolescents and Adults
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Social and Behavior Change and GenderAdolescent Nutrition
These guidelines provide the required minimum standards for delivering a comprehensive set of nutrition interventions aimed at preventing and managing undernutrition and overnutrition in adolescents and adults at various service delivery points in health facilities and communities.
Breaking the Cycle of Malnutrition: Designing an Adolescent Programme in Nepal
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Social and Behavior Change and GenderAdolescent Nutrition
This technical update is an overview of Suaahara II project activities in Nepal to initiate an integrated, school-based, adolescent intervention package in coordination with government actors in 84 secondary schools in disadvantaged areas in four program intervention districts.
Maternal Nutrition for Girls and Women: Technical Guidance Brief
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Social and Behavior Change and GenderAdolescent Nutrition
This brief presents information on why the nutrition of adolescent girls and mothers is important, the causes of malnutrition, and the scope of the problem. It also provides an overview of key nutrition-specific interventions that address the immediate causes of malnutrition in adolescent girls and mothers.
Guide to Anthropometry: A Practical Tool for Program Planners, Managers, and Implementers. Module 3: Children and Adolescents 5-19 Years of Age
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Social and Behavior Change and GenderAdolescent Nutrition
This reference offers information and step-by-step instructions on using anthropometry to assess the nutritional status of individuals and communities. This resource can be used to better collect, understand, and use anthropometric data as part of service provision, surveillance, surveys, monitoring and evaluation, or program design.
Review of Programmatic Responses to Adolescent and Womens Nutritional Needs in Low- and Middle-Income Countries
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Social and Behavior Change and GenderAdolescent Nutrition
This is the second of two discussion papers commissioned to identify key issues and practices regarding the scientific evidence, and to summarize recent and current programmatic experiences.
Nutrition of Adolescent Girls and Women of Reproductive Age in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: Current Context and Scientific Basis for Moving Forward
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Social and Behavior Change and GenderAdolescent Nutrition
The Strengthening Partnerships, Results, and Innovations in Nutrition Globally (SPRING) Project and the Pan American Health Organization identified the need for a core set of key practices that characterize the diet and feeding practices associated with good nutrition among adolescent girls, women, and pregnant and breastfeeding women.
Social and Behavior Change and GenderAdolescent Nutrition
Iron is critical for adolescent females (ages 12–19 years) for their red blood cells and to reduce illness. The purpose of this activity sheet is to encourage participants to consume iron on a daily basis.
Feed the Future Project Design Guide for Youth-Inclusive Agriculture and Food Systems: Volume I - Project Design
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Social and Behavior Change and GenderAdolescent Nutrition
The two-part Feed The Future Project Design Guide for Youth-Inclusive Agriculture and Food Systems (Volumes I & II) provides USAID staff and implementing partners with approaches, frameworks and tools to design agriculture programs that promote successful and meaningful youth engagement with the US Feed the Future Initiative and the US government Global Food Security Strategy.
Engaging Adolescents to Accelerate Progress on the First 1,000 Days
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Social and Behavior Change and GenderAdolescent Nutrition
This paper will demonstrate how prioritizing and engaging adolescents prior to and during the first 1,000 days can accelerate progress on improving nutrition and contribute to meeting multiple Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) (United Nations 2015).
SoyBytes: The Role of Soy in Early Childhood Nutrition
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Nutrition and Health SystemsInfant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)
Experts from the Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Soybean Value Chain Research and their partners are involved in a number of initiatives and programs designed to improve production and utilization of soybeans in sub-Saharan Africa. Their new podcast series, SoyBytes, offers an inside look at innovations and technologies, directly from the experts themselves. In this SoyByte, Dr.
Nutrition and Health SystemsInfant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)
Introducing solid foods to infants, also known as complementary feeding, is an important part of their growth and development. The purpose of this activity sheet is to explain how to properly introduce solid foods to children.
Nigeria: Complementary Feeding and Food Demonstration Training Package
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Nutrition and Health SystemsInfant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)
These materials can be used by health service providers, households, and communities as reference materials and learning aids for improved understanding and knowledge of complementary feeding. The training also emphasizes best practices around water, sanitation, and hygiene in addition to food safety during the processing and preparation of food.
National Recipe Guide for Complementary Feeding of Children 6-24 Months of Age
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Nutrition and Health SystemsInfant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)
This national recipe guide is based on locally grown foods to help improve complementary feeding of children 6 to 24 months of age. The guide, in French, offers simple recipes and is intended to be used for counseling of mothers and caregivers.
Diet and Eating Practices among Adolescent Girls in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: A Systemic Review
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Social and Behavior Change and GenderAdolescent Nutrition
The aim of this systematic review is to summarize current dietary intakes, patterns, and practices of adolescent girls (ages 10–19 years) in low- and middle-income countries.