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.
Introduction to USAID's Research Translation Toolkit Series
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Knowledge Management
USAID’s Research Translation Toolkit helps researchers communicate findings effectively to the most relevant audiences. This four-part series discusses how to use the stakeholder analysis tool, the communication products section, and the research-to-action plan. Guest speakers share examples of how they have used the processes and tools in their work. These are webinars.
WHO's Science in 5: Disability and Health Inequity
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Knowledge Management
Persons with disabilities (PWDs) die earlier than their nondisabled counterparts; are at twice the risk of suffering from many health conditions; cannot always make their own health care choices; and face stigma and discrimination when seeking healthcare, education, and employment opportunities.
Knowledge ManagementWastingBreastfeedingInfant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)Micronutrient Interventions
Authors discuss the scope of child wasting and where it is most common, urge early detection and action, examine the importance of ready-to-use therapeutic food, and outline UNICEF priorities.
The State of Acute Malnutrition platform coordinates data sharing for severe and moderate acute malnutrition to improve program data quality, identify data gaps, and support improved use of data and evidence for programs and policies. Resources are available in English and French.
The Conscious Food Systems Alliance convenes a Community of Practice and Learning where individuals and organizations can connect, exchange knowledge, and collaborate to build conscious food systems. It pioneered the application of consciousness approaches and practices supported by research and learning frameworks.
Project Year 4 Summary: Priorities and Key Accomplishments
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Knowledge ManagementCOVID-19Infant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)Micronutrient InterventionsPrivate-Sector Engagement
USAID Advancing Nutrition partnered with governments and local stakeholders to build strong programming foundations and to facilitate, coordinate, and track progress to achieve and sustain national nutrition objectives.
Knowledge ManagementBreastfeedingCOVID-19Nutrition Assessment, Counseling, and Support (NACS)Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH)
During the COVID-19 pandemic, USAID MOMENTUM worked with 53 facilities in Sierra Leone to make structural improvements; introduce infection prevention and control standards; improve water, sanitation, and hygiene. These efforts produced safer spaces, increased service scope, and improved patient attendance.
Food, agriculture, and consciousness leaders discuss the importance of cultivating inner capacities that activate systemic change and regeneration and increase equity. This is a webinar.
NIPN Ethiopia: Aligning with Food and Nutrition Security Priorities
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Food SystemsCOVID-19Food SystemsWater, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH)
Speakers explore how the integration of the National Information Platforms for Nutrition (NIPN) into the nutrition coordination structure enhances support to coordination and collaboration mechanisms, enables core NIPN activities to better align and contribute to the implementation of national plans and programs, and enhances the impact of NIPN products and capacity strengthening activities.
Losing the Plot: The Impact of Urban Agriculture on Household Food Expenditure and Dietary Diversity in Sub-Saharan African Countries
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Food SystemsFood Systems
Households engaged in urban agriculture (UA) reduced food expenditures by 3 percent and spent relatively more on protein rich foods including nuts, legumes, fruits, dairy products, meat, and poultry. However, there were significant variations in its impact across the food expenditure distribution. Larger and male-headed households and households practiced UA most often.
How Perspectives on Food Safety of Vendors and Consumers Translate into Food-Choice Behaviors in 6 African and Asian Countries
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Food SystemsFood SafetyFood Systems
Consumers use knowledge, lived experiences, and concerns about food safety when making food choice decisions. Successful food safety policies must consider concerns of consumers and prioritize actions to reduce risks to the food supply.
Contributing Factors to the Looming Food Crisis in Sub-Saharan Africa: Opportunities for Policy Insight
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Nutrition in Humanitarian ContextsCOVID-19Food Safety
Addressing food crises caused by climate change, COVID-19, and the war between Russia and Ukraine requires providing support to those impacted, expanding intra-African food commerce, increasing poverty reduction initiatives and strategic food reserves, and improving the monitoring of weather shocks to anticipate future droughts and their impacts.
Community-Orientated Primary Health Care: Exploring the Interface between Community Health Worker Programmes, the Health System and Communities in South Africa
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Nutrition in Humanitarian Contexts
In this study, community health workers (CHWs), CHW supervisors, community representatives, and others in South Africa reported that services were comprehensive but that inadequate training, supervision, and mentoring as well as socio-economic issues impacted service effectiveness.
WHO Guidelines on Parenting Interventions to Prevent Maltreatment and Enhance Parent–Child Relationships with Children Aged 0–17 Years
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Early Childhood Development
These guidelines provide recommendations to reduce child maltreatment and harsh parenting, enhance the parent–child relationship, and prevent poor mental health among parents and emotional and behavioral problems among children. It shares recommended training packages and other resources.
Early Childhood DevelopmentChild NutritionInfant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)
This guide explores the rationale for giving greater attention to responsive caregiving; opportunities for early learning, safety, and security; and supporting the well-being of caregivers. It describes what managers can do to develop services and better equip service providers and provides practical suggestions for service provider engagement with families.
Maternal and Paternal Employment in Agriculture and Early Childhood Development: A Cross-Sectional Analysis of Demographic and Health Survey Data
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Early Childhood DevelopmentGender
This study found that parental employment in the agricultural sector was associated with poorer quality of child supervision and child development and lower levels of early childhood care, education program attendance, and women’s empowerment compared with nonagricultural employment.
Home Environment and Nutritional Status Mitigate the Wealth Gap in Child Development: A Longitudinal Study in Vietnam
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Early Childhood DevelopmentChild NutritionInfant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)Micronutrient Interventions
Wealth-related gaps in cognitive development found during early childhood increased in middle childhood. Maternal factors, quality of home environment, and child nutritional status mitigated this gap in early childhood more than in middle childhood.
The Sahel Integrated Resilience Programme & Scale Up 2023–2028
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Capacity StrengtheningChild NutritionEconomic GrowthWater, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH)
Accomplishments of this program include increased and diversified crop and livestock production, increased access to markets and community capacity to withstand seasonal shocks and stresses, and reduced distress migration. It has also improved children’s health and nutrition; women’s empowerment; and water, sanitation, health, and education services.
Strengthening Organizational Capacity: Lessons Learned From MOMENTUM
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Capacity StrengtheningChild NutritionCOVID-19Infant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)Maternal NutritionWater, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH)
Case studies in this report share learning from Kenya, Mozambique, and Uganda on how MOMENTUM strengthens the capacity of partner organizations. Recommendations share how to increase organizational capacity to foster self-determination, produce sustainable results, align systems for agility, and attract and sustain support.
Investing in Nutrition—A Global Best Investment Case
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Monitoring, Evaluation, and LearningWastingComplementary FeedingInfant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)Maternal NutritionMicronutrient Interventions
Small-quantity lipid-based nutrient supplementation and complementary feeding promotion (CFP) for children 6−23 months of age reduced premature births, low birth weight, and stillbirths. The benefit-cost ratio was lowest for CFP for children in the three lowest socio-economic status quintiles due to the high cost of accomplishing behavior change in these households.