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Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Is Women’s Empowerment Bearing Fruit? Mapping Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Index (WEAI) Results Using the Gender and Food Systems Framework
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Food Systems
Child NutritionFood SystemsGenderMaternal NutritionWater, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH)
Findings suggest that women’s empowerment contributes to improved diets and nutritional status, especially for children, but that household wealth, social class, and gender norms moderate impacts. Strengthening the evidence base will require more research using experimental and quasi-experimental methods and completing gender-disaggregated analyses.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Food Environment Toolkit to Inform Consumer-Driven Food Market System Programming for Better Maternal and Child Nutrition
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Food Systems
Child NutritionFood SystemsMaternal Nutrition
This toolkit helps market actors understand and develop strategies to address barriers to increasing sales of nutritious foods.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Context Assessment for Mixed Farming Systems in Malawi
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Food Systems
Food SystemsResilience
Key recommendations in this assessment include training smallholder farmers about the benefits of adopting sustainable intensification technologies; establishing demonstration plots; and improving farmer access to inputs, support services, and markets.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Shaping Food Environments to Support Sustainable Healthy Diets in Low- and Middle-Income Countries
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Food Systems
Food Systems
Researchers prioritize developing a comprehensive structural framework to facilitate understanding of interactions among different domains; generating comprehensive and reliable data; and developing evidence-based, actionable policies.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Policies for Optimal Nutrition-Sensitive Options: A Study of Food and Nutrition Security Policies, Strategies, and Programs in Ghana, Kenya, and South Africa
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Food Systems
Adolescent NutritionChild NutritionFood SystemsGenderMaternal NutritionMicronutrient InterventionsNutrition Sensitive Agriculture
Recommendations include conducting research on sustainable funding mechanisms, researching and implementing evidence-based interventions, and identifying indicators to measure the impact of agriculture on nutrition and to ensure the efficient use of resources.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Impact of Zinc and Iron Agronomic Biofortification on Grain Mineral Concentration of Finger Millet Varieties as Affected by Location and Slope
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Food Systems
Food SystemsMicronutrient Interventions
Adding zinc and iron to soil is a promising strategy to enhance the concentration of zinc and iron in finger millet grain and combat micronutrient deficiencies.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
How Do Food Companies Try to Reach Lower-Income Consumers, and Do They Succeed? Insights From a Systematic Review
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Food Systems
Food SystemsPrivate-Sector Engagement
Researchers identified 13 business model features that food companies use to reach lower-income consumers, but found little evidence of success in reaching consumers or improving diet quality.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Characteristics of Food Environments that Influence Food Acquisition and Diets of Women in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: A Scoping Review Protocol
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Food Systems
BreastfeedingFood SystemsMaternal Nutrition
This protocol focuses on identifying and mapping characteristics of food environments that influence food acquisition practices and dietary intake among women of reproductive age, especially pre-conception, during pregnancy, and while breastfeeding.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Mid-Upper Arm Circumference (MUAC) Measurement Usage among Children with Disabilities: A Systematic Review
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Nutrition and Health Systems
Child Nutrition
Studies reviewed indicate mid-upper arm circumference (MUAC) is used as part of nutritional assessments on children with disabilities, but measurement methods, references, and cut-offs were inconsistent. Speed, simplicity, and ease of use make MUAC useful for implementers.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Nutrition Resources and Tools Across the USAID Program Cycle
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Knowledge Management
To support multi-sectoral nutrition, the resource collection provides tools for strategic planning, design, implementation, monitoring and evaluation, skill building and curricula, and learning and new evidence.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
The Availability and Geographic Location of Open-Source Food Composition Data Used to Estimate Micronutrient Intakes in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Scoping Review
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Food Systems
Food SystemsMicronutrient InterventionsNutrition Assessment, Counseling, and Support (NACS)
Identifying and reporting geographic information in publicly available food composition tables and databases and accommodating spatially resolved food composition data requires new data structures and improved metadata.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Emergency Response Preparedness: Rollout of the Global Nutrition Cluster’s Toolkit for Country Coordination Teams
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Nutrition in Humanitarian Contexts
Emergency NutritionResilience
Despite support and resources, few Global Nutrition Cluster priority countries have incorporated emergency response preparedness (ERP) into their work. This report showcases how four countries have begun to mainstream ERP. Authors stress the need to investigate why many countries are not prioritizing ERP, to address challenges, and help countries advocate for domestic ERP financing.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Promoting and Supporting Breastfeeding in a Protracted Emergency Setting—Caregivers' and Health Workers' Perceptions from North-East Nigeria
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Nutrition in Humanitarian Contexts
BreastfeedingEmergency NutritionInfant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)
Household and contextual factors strongly influenced the practice, promotion, and support of breastfeeding in North-East Nigeria. Breastfeeding promotion and support were well received and contributed to improved practices, but would be more effective if tailored to address specific barriers to exclusive breastfeeding.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Home Garden Interventions in Crisis and Emergency Settings
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Nutrition in Humanitarian Contexts
COVID-19Emergency NutritionFood SystemsGenderResilienceWater, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH)
Authors call for conducting more research on long-term garden care and sustainability, identifying critical inputs and supports, integrating contextual factors, and developing testable linkages between direct and indirect program effects and pathways.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Jalal-Abad TV Spotlights Successful Early Childhood Development Story: Inspiring Early Learning and Responsive Care Practices in the Kyrgyz Republic
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Early Childhood Development
BreastfeedingComplementary FeedingInfant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)Maternal Nutrition
This news segment showcases work that promotes responsive care and early learning, emphasizes efforts to promote good nutrition and feeding practices for mothers and children, and highlights the significance of the critical period from pregnancy through a child’s second birthday to ensure optimal nutrition and growth.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Implementing Integrated and Inclusive Nurturing Care in Low- and Middle-Income Countries
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Early Childhood Development
Child Nutrition
Early childhood development (ECD) experts discuss challenges and opportunities working on integrated, inclusive nurturing care-based programs. The USAID Children in Adversity team leader discusses the government's approach to supporting ECD. This is a webinar.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Promoting Childhood Development Globally Through Caregiving Interventions
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Early Childhood Development
AnemiaGenderWater, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH)
This collection of papers examines program quality, including interventions for children in crisis and conflict settings, parenting to impact child development and reduce violence and maternal depression, integrating early childhood interventions with other services, delivering services remotely, scaling programs, and partnering with government agencies.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Nurturing Care Framework Progress Report 2018–2023: Reflections and Looking Forward
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Early Childhood Development
Child NutritionCOVID-19Gender
This report summarizes the achievements of the Nurturing Care Framework, including the development of new global measures for population-level assessments of early child development (ECD), an extensive research repository, and ECD profiles for 197 countries.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
How Talking to Babies Can Boost Their Brain Development
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Early Childhood Development
Babies’ exposure to language affects their brain development. Playing word games, letting the baby take the lead in conversations, and engaging in contingent interactions when a caregiver responds promptly and meaningfully to what the baby is doing, are particularly important.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Tool and Guide for Reviewing the Nutrition Content of Pre-Service Training Curricula
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Capacity Strengthening
AnemiaBreastfeedingInfant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)Maternal NutritionMicronutrient InterventionsNutrition Assessment, Counseling, and Support (NACS)
The tool and accompanying guide provide resources for prioritizing cadres of health workers providing frontline nutrition services, identify relevant competencies, determine if the pre-service training curricula address these competencies, and update curricula.