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.
Necessidade de um maior investimento em recursos humanos da área de nutrição como forma de resposta à elevada prevalência da Desnutrição Crónica na província de Nampula
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Early Childhood DevelopmentWastingChild Nutrition
A redução dos índices de Desnutrição Crónica (baixa altura para idade) constitui uma prioridade do Governo de Moçambique, onde a média nacional é de 43% em crianças menores de cinco anos de idade.
Social and Behavior Change and GenderBehavior Change for NutritionCOVID-19Economic GrowthGenderMaternal Nutrition
USAID Advancing Nutrition conducted social and behavior change (SBC) formative research in the three intervention districts of Tinsukia, Goalpara, and Barpeta in Assam to inform the project’s SBC activities.
Elevating Nutrition in Pre-Service Training: A Competency-Based Tool to Assess Coverage of Nutrition Content Webinar
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Capacity StrengtheningIdentification and Use of Nutrition Competencies
Quality pre-service training forms the foundation of all nutrition services, equipping health professionals with the competencies required to deliver quality services from day one on the job. However, nutrition content is often outdated and can be difficult to integrate into pre-service training.
Nurturing Young Children through Responsive Feeding
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Early Childhood DevelopmentResponsive Care and Early Learning Addendum for IYCF CounselingChild NutritionComplementary FeedingEarly Childhood Development
This brief explains what is meant by responsive feeding and how to create the enabling environments for caregivers to responsively feed their young children.
Many Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning (MEL) courses, developed by USAID and other organizations, are available to USAID Mission and project staff. The resources in this online M&E Course Repository, will help meet your current needs.
Measuring What it Takes to Provide Care (Resource Collection)
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Social and Behavior Change and GenderAdolescent NutritionChild NutritionInfant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)Mental Health
This toolkit presents measures of caregiver resources that are relevant to the care of young children and nutrition outcomes. These include mental health, healthy stress levels, perceived physical health, safety and security, equitable gender attitudes, self-efficacy, social support, and time sufficiency.
Food SystemsFood SystemsWater, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH)
USAID and USAID Advancing Nutrition curated the Food Systems Toolkit which is focused on a set of tools to support USAID Missions and partners in putting a food systems approach into action. The toolkit comprises resources that provide practical guidance on how to design, implement, and measure concrete activities that improve diets and nutrition through food systems.
This tool makes it easier for practitioners and decision makers to understand dietary patterns and nutrient intake. Such information is critical to design, monitor, and evaluate efforts to improve diets. The decision tool provides existing data sources and data collection tools related to the different target groups and diet questions below.
Anemia is a global public health problem imposing a health burden on individuals at different life stages. This searchable toolkit includes over 100 resources organized into five sections related to anemia—
Biology
Assessment
Interventions
Policies and Programs
Anemia Landscape
Adolescent Nutrition Resource Bank (Resource Collection)
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Adolescent NutritionAdolescent Nutrition
Adolescence is a critical time in the life cycle, presenting what is sometimes called a "second window of opportunity" in an individual’s growth and development.
Intrahousehold Power Inequalities and Cooperation: Unpacking Household Responses to Nutrition-Sensitive Agriculture Interventions in Rural India
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Social and Behavior Change and GenderGenderNutrition Sensitive Agriculture
Higher levels of household cooperation within the family and women's relative power may influence children’s and mothers’ dietary diversity in Odisha and increase the impact of nutrition-sensitive agriculture interventions. Further research should investigate constraints that families face and how interventions can respond to heterogeneity in household dynamics.
The Volume and Monetary Value of Human Milk Produced by the World's Breastfeeding Mothers: Results from a New Tool
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Nutrition and Health SystemsBreastfeeding
The Mothers’ Milk Tool enumerates the economic risk of not protecting, promoting, and supporting women’s capacity for breastfeeding and encourages countries to consider breastfeeding in food balance sheets and economic production statistics.
Measurement of Diets That Are Healthy, Environmentally Sustainable, Affordable, and Equitable: A Scoping Review of Metrics, Findings, and Research Gaps
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Food SystemsFood Systems
Researchers recommend using indicators and metrics that link social and economic issues to more commonly assessed diet-climate-planetary ecology relationships and integrating processed food products in analyses to better reflect consumer choices.
The Effect of Interventions Distributing Home Fortification Products on Infant and Young Child Feeding (IYCF) Practices: A Systematic Narrative Review
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Nutrition and Health SystemsBreastfeedingInfant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)Micronutrient InterventionsNutrition Assessment, Counseling, and Support (NACS)
Small-quantity lipid-based nutrient supplements and micronutrient powders can address nutrient gaps for young children in low-resource settings. Programs that combine home fortification products with infant and young child feeding (IYCF) interventions may also contribute to improved IYCF practices in some settings.
Anthropometric Criteria for Best-Identifying Children at High Risk of Mortality: A Pooled Analysis of Twelve Cohorts
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Monitoring, Evaluation, and LearningWastingChild NutritionGrowth Monitoring and PromotionInfant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)
Researchers compared several anthropometric diagnostic criteria to assess risk of child mortality. The best indicators were weight-for-age Z-score (WAZ) <−2, mid-upper arm circumference (MUAC) <125 mm, MUAC < 115 mm or WAZ < −3, and WAZ < −3.
Data from 185 countries indicated that mean animal-source foods (ASF) intake was 1.9 servings per day. Intake was similar between boys and girls but higher among urban children with educated parents. Consumption varied by age from 0.6 servings for children under age 1 to 2.5 servings per day for those ages 15–19.