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.
The Government of the Republic of Mozambique (GRM) has made reducing malnutrition one of its key economic and health priorities. Despite recent decades of impressive economic growth and investments in food security and nutrition, the prevalence of malnutrition has remained high, with 38 percent stunting and 6 percent wasting among children under five years of age (MISAU, INE, and ICFI 2011).
Complementary Feeding in Emergencies Programming in Myanmar: A Case Study Based on the UNICEF Action Framework
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Nutrition in Humanitarian ContextsImproving Women and Children’s Diets in Emergency ContextsComplementary FeedingEmergency NutritionInfant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)
The 2020 UNICEF report titled "Improving Young Children’s Diets during the Complementary Feeding Period" provides an Action Framework to improve the diets of children 6–23 months of age. This report is one of four case studies that use the Action Framework as a tool to examine the efforts in emergency contexts to support complementary feeding.
Complementary Feeding in Emergencies Programming in Yemen: A Case Study Based on the UNICEF Action Framework
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Nutrition in Humanitarian ContextsComplementary FeedingEmergency NutritionInfant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)
The 2020 UNICEF report titled "Improving Young Children’s Diets during the Complementary Feeding Period" provides an Action Framework to improve the diets of children 6–23 months of age. This report is one of four case studies that use the Action Framework as a tool to examine the efforts in emergency contexts to support complementary feeding.
Exemples de comportements pour améliorer l’agriculture sensible à la nutrition
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Social and Behavior Change and GenderBehavior Change for Nutrition
Les systèmes alimentaires constituent l’épine dorsale des régimes alimentaires mondiaux. Ce document fournit une liste illustrative de comportements sensibles à la nutrition fondés sur des données probantes afin de susciter des idées et des discussions entre les concepteurs et les responsables de la mise en oeuvre des activités.
Nutrition Programs Adapt to COVID-19: Lessons for Future Shocks
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Monitoring, Evaluation, and LearningCOVID-19
The coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic has caused unprecedented challenges to public health and disrupted nutrition programs globally. USAID Advancing Nutrition conducted a learning activity to document COVID-19-related adaptations within USAID-funded nutrition investments to identify practices we can share to mitigate current and future challenges to nutrition program implementation.
Services de nutrition de première ligne : Rôles, responsabilités et formation initiale
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Capacity Strengthening
Une main-d'oeuvre qualifiée est essentielle pour fournir des services de nutrition en première ligne ou au niveau des soins de santé primaires et, en fin de compte, pour obtenir de meilleurs résultats en matière de santé.
Factors Influencing Iron and Vitamin A Supplementation and Improved Dietary Practices: Formative Research Findings from Maradi and Zinder, Niger
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Micronutrient Interventions
USAID Advancing Nutrition Niger conducted formative research in the Maradi and Zinder regions to better understand factors that support or inhibit the program’s desired objectives: reducing the prevalence of anemia among women of reproductive age (WRA) and adolescents and vitamin A deficiency (VAD) among children under five in the USAID Resilience in the Sahel Enhanced (RISE) II zones of interv
USAID Advancing Nutrition Ghana Integration of Food and Nutrition Security into District Medium-Term Development Plans
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Food Security
Ghana has made some progress towards reducing malnutrition in recent years, but it remains a key development concern and requires a multi-sectoral approach to planning, financing, and coordinating actions to tackle it.
Evaluation rapide afin d'identifier les défis et les opportunités pour renforcer la chaîne d'approvisionnement en suppléments de vitamine A et de fer-acide folique au Niger
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Micronutrient Interventions
L'objectif de cette évaluation rapide était d’analyser la chaîne d'approvisionnement tout en identifiant les goulots d'étranglement qui doivent être adressés pour assurer un approvisionnement efficace en suppléments de vitamine A et de fer-acide folique (FAF), dans les régions de Maradi et de Zinder.
Nutritional Care for Children with Feeding Difficulties and Disabilities: A Scoping Review - Journal Article
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Early Childhood DevelopmentFeeding and DisabilityEarly Childhood Development
One billion people worldwide have a disability, and 80 percent of them live in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). The prevalence of feeding difficulties globally ranges from 25–45 percent to 33–80 percent in children without and with disabilities, respectively.
Changement social et comportemental (CSC) en matière de nutrition: Liste de contrôle de la stratégie
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Social and Behavior Change and GenderBehavior Change for Nutrition
L’utilisation de processus de haute qualité pour le changement social et comportemental (CSC) est une approche transversale clé pour mettre en place des programmes et services de nutrition efficaces. Les planificateurs de programmes nutritionnels peuvent utiliser cette liste de contrôle pour préparer et définir les grandes lignes d’une nouvelle stratégie de CSC en cours d’élaboration.
Review of Methods to Assess Diets, Markets, and Cost of an Adequate Diet
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Food SystemsFood Systems
This report describes the findings from a literature review USAID Advancing Nutrition conducted to identify a methodology to assess diets, markets, and cost of an adequate diet for the USAID Large-Scale Food Fortification (LSFF) Programming Guide (USAID 2022) and broader USAID programming to improve diets.
Prioriser les comportements nutritionnels multisectoriels
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Social and Behavior Change and GenderBehavior Change for Nutrition
La conception d’un CSC de haute qualité nécessite plusieurs étapes, à commencer par la hiérarchisation des comportements, une étape qui garantit une utilisation efficace des ressources et un impact durable. Cet outil vous guide dans le processus de hiérarchisation des comportements, qui nécessite une prise de décision subjective fondée sur des données.
In 2021, Emergency Nutrition Network conducted a prioritization exercise to help set out a 10-year research agenda to support child and adolescent nutrition (5–19 years of age) in low- and middle-income countries.
UNICEF examines the current status, trends, and inequities in the nutritional status of adolescent girls and women of reproductive age (15–49 years of age). The report considers the barriers adolescents face in accessing nutritious diets, essential nutrition services, and positive nutrition and care practices.
Nudges to Promote Healthy Eating in Schools: Policy Brief
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Adolescent NutritionFood SystemsGrowth Monitoring and Promotion
This policy brief aims to increase awareness of the opportunities for promoting healthy eating in school settings and proposes action points for decision-makers to implement healthier eating in schools through the use of nudge-based interventions.
Nutritional Status Among Young Adolescents Attending Primary School in Tanzania: Contributions of Mid-Upper Arm Circumference (MUAC) for Adolescent Assessment
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WastingAdolescent NutritionGrowth Monitoring and Promotion
The authors investigate whether there is a correlation between mid-upper arm circumference (MUAC) and body mass index (BMI). The authors explored using MUAC as a low-resource alternative (or supplement) to BMI in assessing nutrition in adolescent populations. They conclude that using MUAC has the potential to provide simple, low-resource nutrition screening when BMI is not possible.