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Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Scope and Impact of Digital Marketing Strategies for Promoting Breastmilk Substitutes
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Knowledge Management
Breastfeeding
Findings raise significant concerns about the use of powerful digital marketing techniques to influence mothers’ feeding decisions. The report and webinar are available in Arabic, English, French, Korean, Russian, and Spanish.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Localisation
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Capacity Strengthening
Adolescent Nutrition
Shifting capacity, resources, and ownership to national and local actors will result in more timely, appropriate, and effective outcomes for children and their communities. This resource collection provides a centralized location for research and evidence.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
2022 Global Food Policy Report: Climate Change and Food Systems
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Knowledge Management
Food Security
The report discusses innovations and policy responses to climate change that can support food and nutrition security, livelihoods, and sustainable food systems. These include transforming food systems, trade reforms, social protection, climate finance, and clean energy, among others.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
GAIN Podcast Series: Fostering a Culture of Food Safety
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Knowledge Management
Food Safety
Speakers discuss what it means to foster a culture of food safety and how to build one to reduce the burden of foodborne disease. This is a podcast.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Sustainable and Resilient Indigenous Peoples' Food Systems for Improved Nutrition: Digital Toolbox
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Knowledge Management
Maternal Nutrition
The toolbox and participatory videos provide guidelines to design, implement, monitor, and supervise projects to improve Indigenous Peoples’ diets and nutrition, particularly by leveraging local food biodiversity. Materials are available in English, French, and Spanish.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Strengthening Nutrition Interventions in Antenatal Care Services Improved Consumption of Iron-Folic Acid Supplements and Early Breastfeeding Practices in Burkina Faso
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Social and Behavior Change and Gender
BreastfeedingCOVID-19Maternal NutritionMicronutrient Interventions
Strengthening maternal nutrition interventions delivered through government antenatal care services is effective for improving maternal nutrition practices. Continued efforts to strengthen services may be needed for greater behavior change and to address family support, social norms, and other factors that impact maternal diet.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Interventions and Policy Approaches to Promote Equity in Breastfeeding
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Social and Behavior Change and Gender
Breastfeeding
Designing programs based on community needs and wants can increase success in protecting, promoting, and supporting women’s right to breastfeed for as long as recommended or desired. Using implementation science frameworks and theories to address structural inequities will strengthen future studies and interventions.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
The Effect of Electronic Job Aid Assisted One-To-One Counselling to Support Exclusive Breastfeeding Among 0–5-Month-Old Infants in Rural Bangladesh
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Social and Behavior Change and Gender
Breastfeeding
Breastfeeding counseling and practical demonstrations are promising interventions to improve exclusive breastfeeding and are scalable within existing community‐based programs.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Process of Developing Models of Maternal Nutrition Interventions Integrated into Antenatal Care Services in Bangladesh, Burkina Faso, Ethiopia and India
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Nutrition and Health Systems
BreastfeedingMaternal NutritionMicronutrient InterventionsNutrition Assessment, Counseling, and Support (NACS)
Strategic use of data can contextualize nutrition guidelines, protocols, capacity strengthening, and supervision approaches and improve micronutrient supply chains and record-keeping and strengthen health services.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Countries' Experiences Scaling Up National Breastfeeding, Protection, Promotion and Support Programmes: Comparative Case Studies Analysis
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Nutrition and Health Systems
Breastfeeding
Implementation science frameworks help identify key drivers for the scale- up of breastfeeding protection, promotion, and support policies and programs.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Population-Based Survey Data Use for Improved Nutrition Policies and Programs Webinar
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Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning
Speakers present an e-learning course on nutrition indicators. They share country-specific experiences using population-based survey data for policy, program design, and implementation purposes. This is a webinar.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Data for Infant and Young Child Feeding and Minimum Dietary Diversity for Women: Understanding New Guidelines, Evidence, and Survey Tools Webinar
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Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning
Infant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)Maternal Nutrition
Presenters share new global guidance on indicators, their experience with developing and using updated guidelines, pilot results from using these indicators, and country-specific adaptations of questions. This is a webinar.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Using Height-Adjusted Stunting Prevalence Will Fail Disadvantaged Children Worldwide
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Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning
Adolescent NutritionGrowth Monitoring and Promotion
This correspondence is a response to S.V. Subramanian and colleagues’ comment in The Lancet on using stunting to monitor nutrition programs. Adjusting for maternal stature in stunting calculations underestimates the contribution of current deficient conditions to a child's stature and is unethical because it will disincentivize commitments to improve living conditions globally.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Diet Assessment Decision Tool
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Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning
Infant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)Maternal Nutrition
The tool helps practitioners better understand dietary patterns and nutrient intake, which are critical to designing, monitoring, and evaluating efforts to improve diets. Diet assessments and related interventions should focus on children 6–23 months of age and pregnant women, as evidence shows these groups are vulnerable to malnutrition.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Health Outcomes Associated with Micronutrient-Fortified Complementary Foods in Infants and Young Children Aged 6–23 Months: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
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Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning
AnemiaComplementary FeedingInfant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)Micronutrient Interventions
Fortified complementary foods are effective in preventing anemia in infants and young children 6–23 months of age in malaria-endemic regions. Researchers should investigate the effects of complementary food fortification globally, including in regions where malaria is not endemic.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Mitigating Impacts of Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine on Global Food Security & Nutrition
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Knowledge Management
COVID-19Food SecurityResilience
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is contributing to rising food, fuel, and fertilizer prices around the world, which are particularly impactful for communities already experiencing increased poverty, hunger, and malnutrition due to COVID-19, climate change, and protracted conflict.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Learning Lab: Generating Demand for Healthy Diets: Practical Lessons from Private Sector Marketing
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Food Systems
Private-Sector Engagement
Proven marketing techniques can increase the impact of social and behavior change activities to create demand for healthy diets and foods. This session helps participants identify and apply techniques to generate demand. This is a webinar.
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
USAID Climate Strategy 2022-2030
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Climate change is a global crisis, but its effects are not equal. As temperatures and sea levels rise, the effects disproportionately impact the poorest and most marginalized communities USAID works to support every day. In response to these global challenges, USAID launched a Climate Strategy that will guide its work through 2030.
Adolescent Nutrition Resource Bank
Partnering with UNFPA to Integrate Iron and Folic Acid into Reproductive Health Services for Women and Adolescent girls in Senegal
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Adolescent NutritionAnemiaMaternal NutritionMicronutrient Interventions
This webpage details the success of the Nutrition Leverage and Influence for Transformation program in integrating nutrition counseling into sexual and reproductive health programs to increase the knowledge and awareness of iron-folic acid supplementation and healthy diet among adolescent girls, women of reproductive age, and healthcare workers in Senegal.
Adolescent Nutrition Resource Bank
Evidence-Based Nutrition Interventions Improved Adolescents’ Knowledge and Behaviors in Indonesia
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Adolescent NutritionAnemia
The objective of this study was to assess the effect of a gender-responsive package of three interventions on nutrition knowledge, attitudes, and diet and physical activity behaviors among adolescents in Indonesia.