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.
Collections
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
Multi-Sectoral Resource Review
Nutrition Resources and Tools Across the USAID Program Cycle
Responsive Care and Early Learning Addendum Resource Collection
Adolescent Nutrition Resource Bank
Feeding and Disability Resource Bank
Measuring What it Takes to Provide Care
Ages and Stages Reference Package and Resource Collection
Optimizing Diets by Using Local Foods for Improved Nutrition for Women and Children
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Governance Resource Bank
Anemia Toolkit
Resilience Food Security Activity (RFSA) Resource Collection
Emergency Nutrition Resources
USAID Nawiri Framework
Monitoring and Evaluation Online Course Repository
Diet Assessment Decision Tool
IYCF Image Bank
Search across all resource collections
We found 2772 resource(s)
Share This
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
To Improve Nutrition Outcomes, Increase Support for Health Workers’ Skill Development
Publication Date:
Capacity Strengthening
Adolescent NutritionBreastfeedingGrowth Monitoring and PromotionInfant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)Maternal Nutrition
To detect nutrition issues, support treatment, and facilitate the prevention of malnutrition health workers need the right competencies. Investing in strengthening the nutrition content of pre-service training curricula can have large-scale, sustainable results.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Civic Engagement is Creating a More Equitable Health System in Timor-Leste
Publication Date:
Capacity Strengthening
GenderWater, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH)
To bridge the gap between communities and the health system and reduce health disparities, USAID is supporting a health network of civil society organizations to identify health system problems and solutions, effectively engage with the Ministry of Health, and participate in monitoring to hold the government accountable.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Structuring the Complexity of Integrated Landscape Approaches into Selectable, Scalable, and Measurable Attributes
Publication Date:
Capacity Strengthening
The integrated landscape approaches (ILAs) mixing board helps planners, evaluators, and other stakeholders plan, diagnose, compare, and evaluate ILAs. Further application of the tool will facilitate comparative analysis and inform development of evidence-based land use policy.
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
Infant and Young Child Feeding Image Bank (Resource Collection)
Publication Date:
Infant and Young Child Feeding Recommendations
BreastfeedingInfant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)
The Infant and Young Child Feeding (IYCF) Image Bank is a collection of over 900 images, developed from adaptations of UNICEF’s Community Infant and Young Child Feeding Counselling Package.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Accounting for Dietary Deprivations in Rural Africa: Poor Households, Poor Farms, or Poor Food Environments?
Publication Date:
Food Systems
Food SecurityFood Systems
This analysis of datasets from rural Nigeria, Ethiopia, and Tanzania produced evidence of the important role of wealth and livestock diversification in reducing dietary deprivation and the strong association of local farming systems with dietary outcomes.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Briefing Note: WHO Guideline on the Prevention and Management of Wasting and Nutritional Oedema (Acute Malnutrition) in Infants and Children Under 5 Years
Publication Date:
Nutrition and Health Systems
WastingBreastfeeding
Mothers and infants at risk of poor growth and development should be cared for as a unit and breastfeeding support is critical. Not all children with moderate wasting need specially formulated food and programmers should prioritize those who need this support based on certain risk factors.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Addressing Overweight and Obesity in LMICs in the Realm of Rural Development and Food Systems
Publication Date:
Food Systems
Food Systems
Results from a literature review and five country examples show that most food system-related interventions use traditional approaches such as food package labeling, price manipulation, and changing the food environment but there is a gap in the evidence on what works.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Promoting a Continuum of Care for Wasted Children: Lessons Learned from Democratic Republic of Congo Webinar
Publication Date:
Nutrition in Humanitarian Contexts
Wasting
Speakers shared learning on coordination and collaboration with the aim of strengthening the continuum of care for the treatment and prevention of wasting in children under five and the ready-to-use therapeutic food supply chain. This is a webinar. It is available in English and French.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
A Guidance Package for Developing Digital Tracking and Decision-Support Tools for Growth Monitoring and Promotion Services
Publication Date:
Nutrition and Health Systems
BreastfeedingComplementary FeedingGrowth Monitoring and PromotionInfant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)
This guidance package facilitates the development of country-specific digital tools for delivery and supervision of growth monitoring and promotion services. It provides recommendations to save time and resources; reduce duplication of effort, errors, and inconsistencies; and ensure fidelity to global guidance.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Nutrition and Feeding of Children with Feeding Difficulties and Disabilities: Gaps, Progress, and Opportunities
Publication Date:
Early Childhood Development
BreastfeedingChild NutritionInfant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)
This review offers recommendations including strengthening systems to improve identification, early intervention, and inclusion of children with complex needs in primary health care settings; expanding the availability of specialized services; and providing direct support to families to address social determinants that affect nutrition outcomes.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Improvement of Community Health Worker Counseling Skills through Early Childhood Development (ECD) Videos, Supervision, and Mentorship: A Mixed Methods Pre-Post Evaluation from Tanzania
Publication Date:
Early Childhood Development
Gender
In Tanzania, the use of training videos and greater supervision and mentorship were associated with improvements in community health worker performance in providing nurturing care counseling and engaging fathers, especially in home settings.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Strengthening the Capacity of State Committees for Food and Nutrition to Support Enhanced Multi-Sectoral Coordination and Programming
Publication Date:
Capacity Strengthening
This capacity assessment of State Committees for Food and Nutrition suggests several steps for strengthening them, including establishing and supporting functional committees at the local government level, improving resource mobilization, and establishing and improving monitoring and evaluation systems.
Event
Enhancing Food Environment Assessment Tools for LMICs: Lessons from a Pilot Study in Liberia, Honduras, Nigeria, and Timor-Leste Webinar
-
Food SystemsMonitoring, Evaluation, and Learning
Food environments play a significant role in shaping food purchasing and consumption behaviors, affecting diets and nutrition.
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
Building the Competency of Health Professionals in the Kyrgyz Republic for the Baby-Friendly Hospital Initiative
Publication Date:
Nutrition and Health Systems
Breastfeeding
This qualitative case study describes the Kyrgyz Republic's experience with health professional competency building related to breastfeeding counselling and support.
Event
Strengthening the Capacity of Local Organizations for Nutrition Outcomes: Local Perspectives and Ways Forward Webinar
-
Capacity Strengthening
Local perspectives on localization framed through the learning agenda, with an emphasis on looking to the future of locally-led development and nutrition.
Event
Programming Small-Quantity Lipid-Based Nutrient Supplements: Lessons Learned and Tool to Strengthen Implementation Webinar
-
Nutrition in Humanitarian Contexts
Strong evidence shows that preventive small-quantity lipid-based nutrient supplements improve survival, growth, and development of children 6-24 months of age.
Event
The "So What": Leveraging Evaluative Data to Adapt Social and Behavior Change Nutrition Programming Workshop
-
Social and Behavior Change and Gender
This workshop aims to provide valuable insights on how to use evaluative social and behavior change data to tackle common issues in program implementation.
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
Kenya Nutrition Advocacy, Communication, and Social Mobilization Strategy, 2022-2027
Publication Date:
Behavior Change for NutritionChild NutritionCOVID-19Food SystemsGrowth Monitoring and PromotionMaternal NutritionMicronutrient InterventionsNutrition Sensitive AgriculturePrivate-Sector Engagement
The Ministry of Health in collaboration with other Ministries, Departments Agencies, development partners and other key stakeholders have developed the Kenya Nutrition Advocacy, Communication, and Social Mobilisation (ACSM) Strategy (2022–2027).
Adolescent Nutrition Resource Bank
Special Issue "Nutrition Guidelines for Adolescent Growth and Development"
Publication Date:
Adolescent NutritionFood Security
Although adolescence is a nutrition-sensitive phase of growth, nutritional guidelines specifically focusing on this age group are limited, particularly those that focus on nutritional problems related to energy and macronutrient excess and micronutrient deficiencies.
Adolescent Nutrition Resource Bank
Interventions to Improve Dietary Intake Behaviors among Children and Adolescents
Publication Date:
Adolescent Nutrition
This paper utilizes a case study approach to explore the proximate determinants of dietary intake as well as the food behaviors of caregivers, children, and adolescents.