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Adolescent Nutrition Resource Bank
The Innocenti Framework on Food Systems for Children and Adolescents
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Adolescent NutritionFood Systems
The report describes the Innocenti Framework on Food Systems for Children and Adolescents' five drivers and four determinants that shape children and adolescents’ diets. It details each component, how they interact, and how a food systems approach can improve diets.
Adolescent Nutrition Resource Bank
Perspective: Interventions to Improve the Diets of Children and Adolescents
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Adolescent NutritionFood SecurityFood Systems
This article uses the determinants of the Innocenti Framework on Food Systems for Children and Adolescents (food supply chains; food environments; and behaviors of caregivers, children, and adolescents) to describe the significance of a food systems approach to improve child and adolescent diets.
Disability Resource Bank
Essential Actions on Disability-Inclusive Nutrition
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Emergency Nutrition
This checklist provides a package of essential actions required to ensure disability-inclusive nutrition humanitarian action.
Disability Resource Bank
Nutrition Integration for the Children with Special Needs: A Facilitator’s Guide for Food Security, Nutrition, Livelihoods and Disability Inclusion Project Staffs
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BreastfeedingInfant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)Maternal Nutrition
This training supports the integration of disability inclusion into nutrition programming by providing information on the nutritional concerns of children with disabilities.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Global Thrive Act Implementation Guidance
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Early Childhood Development
Child NutritionInfant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH)
The Global Child Thrive Act recognizes that the future health, prosperity, and stability of individuals and societies require promoting and protecting young children’s development, which necessitates coordination and integrated approaches across various sectors, including health; nutrition; child protection; water, sanitation, and hygiene; and education.
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
Nourishing Connections: Job Aid and Tools
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Nutrition and Health SystemsSocial and Behavior Change and Gender
Behavior Change for Nutrition
This booklet provides detailed instructions for community health workers (CHWs) to counsel mothers on child feeding in a compassionate way. It helps them improve feeding practices for children 6 to 24 months through tailored discussions and problem solving.
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More Nutrition Data, Please! Integrating Nutrition Indicators into Health Information System and Facility Assessments Webinar
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Nutrition and Health Systems
Increasing the availability and quality of nutrition data is important to measure progress towards global nutrition goals. There are opportunities to leverage existing data collection platforms, especially within the health system, to collect nutrition data for this purpose.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Sustainability and Scalability of Egg Consumption in Burkina Faso for Infant and Young Child Feeding
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Social and Behavior Change and Gender
Infant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)Nutrition Sensitive Agriculture
Mothers who received the Un Oeuf intervention overcame barriers to feeding their child an egg every day, improved their livelihoods, demonstrated motivation to continue feeding their child eggs, and saw the addition of eggs as sustainable. Research to explore the number of household chickens necessary to continuously feed a child one egg per day is important.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Associations Between Dimensions of Empowerment and Nutritional Status Among Married Adolescent Girls in East Africa: A Structural Equation Modelling Study
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Social and Behavior Change and Gender
Adolescent NutritionGender
This research examines how investments in girls’ economic empowerment and access to information may contribute to their overall empowerment and nutritional status, while greater autonomy may contribute to increased consumption of unhealthy foods.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Association of BCC Module Roll-Out in SHG Meetings with Changes in Complementary Feeding and Dietary Diversity Among Children (6–23 months)? Evidence from JEEViKA in Rural Bihar, India
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Social and Behavior Change and Gender
Complementary FeedingInfant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)
This research article explores how behavior change communication intervention in India increased adequate dietary diversity and knowledge and awareness of complementary feeding.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Adequate Dietary Intake and Consumption of Indigenous Fermented Products Are Associated with Improved Nutrition Status among Children Aged 6–23 Months in Zambia
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Social and Behavior Change and Gender
Food SystemsInfant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)
Researchers found a significant association between height-for-age and weight-for-age z-scores and fermented milk consumption in Zambia. Authors call for greater mapping and promotion of traditionally fermented foods and more research to better understand associated health benefits.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Primary Health Care Integration Landscape Analysis: Literature Review Findings
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Nutrition and Health Systems
Child NutritionInfant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)Maternal Nutrition
This literature review synthesizes information about the current integration of immunization and primary health care services in low- and middle-income countries. Some facilities have also integrated nutrition services into reproductive, maternal, newborn, and child health or immunization services.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Improving Nutrition During Middle Childhood and Adolescence by 2032: A Research Roadmap
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Nutrition and Health Systems
Adolescent NutritionChild Nutrition
This report reviews literature for six priority research areas; describes current knowledge, evidence gaps, and lessons learned from research across health-related fields; and provides a global research agenda to support nutrition for children and adolescents.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
The Lancet Series on Breastfeeding 2023
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Nutrition and Health Systems
Breastfeeding
This series highlights the multi-faceted strategies used by commercial formula manufacturers to target parents, health care professionals, and policymakers. Lobbying efforts often compound practices that discourage governments from strengthening breastfeeding protection laws and challenging food standard regulations.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
High Consumption of Unhealthy Commercial Foods and Beverages Tracks Across the Complementary Feeding Period in Rural/Peri-Urban Cambodia
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Nutrition and Health Systems
BreastfeedingComplementary FeedingInfant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)
The high frequency of unhealthy commercial food and beverage consumption during the complementary feeding period requires early interventions to increase caregiver awareness of the risks; promote increased breastfeeding; and encourage consumption of affordable, nutritious, and locally available foods.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Scaling up Micronutrient Interventions in Nigeria
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Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning
Micronutrient Interventions
Speakers discussed the Society for Implementation Science in Nutrition’s strategic plan and share the background and current status of the micronutrient powder/multiple micronutrient supplements implementation science study in Nigeria. This is a webinar.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
The Business Case for Social and Behavior Change for Breastfeeding and Complementary Feeding
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Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning
BreastfeedingComplementary FeedingMaternal Nutrition
Modeling found that social and behavior change (SBC) interventions for breastfeeding and complementary feeding are highly cost-effective to reduce morbidity and mortality associated with undernutrition, especially in areas with higher mortality. Future research should explore social norms around breastfeeding and complementary feeding and the cost-effectiveness of SBC for women’s nutrition.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Benefits of Small-Quantity Lipid-Based Nutrient Supplements for Child Nutrition and Survival Warrant Moving to Scale
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Monitoring, Evaluation, and LearningNutrition in Humanitarian Contexts
AnemiaBreastfeedingChild NutritionComplementary FeedingInfant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)Maternal NutritionMicronutrient InterventionsNutrition Assessment, Counseling, and Support (NACS)
Small-quantity lipid-based nutrient supplements are a highly cost-effective intervention to reduce relative risk of mortality, severe wasting and stunting, iron deficiency anemia, and developmental delay between 6 and 23 months of age.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Fortified Balanced Energy–Protein Supplementation During Pregnancy and Lactation and Infant Growth in Rural Burkina Faso: A 2 × 2 Factorial Individually Randomized Controlled Trial
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Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning
BreastfeedingInfant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)Micronutrient Interventions
During this study in Burkina Faso, the benefits of daily fortified balanced energy–protein supplementation during pregnancy and lactation size at birth were sustained during infancy.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Existing Knowledge on Zn Status Biomarkers (1963–2021) with a Particular Focus on FADS1 and FADS2 Diagnostic Performance and Recommendations for Further Research
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Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning
Micronutrient Interventions
This paper discusses the sensitivity, specificity, and responsiveness of plasma zinc (Zn) concentrations to Zn interventions; describes the biochemical and dietary basis for the causal association between Zn and fatty acid desaturases activity, FADS1 and FADS2; and discusses the influence of potential confounders and covariates on observed relationships.