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Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Assessing the Nurturing Care Content of UNICEF's Community-Infant and Young Child Feeding Counselling Package: Gaps, Best Practices, and Lessons Learned
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Early Childhood Development
Infant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)
Country-level best practices can address nurturing care elements missing from the generic UNICEF Community-Infant and Young Child Feeding Counseling Package. Sharing these practices will help countries prioritize context-driven, evidence-informed decisions.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Children Living with Disabilities Are Neglected in Severe Malnutrition Protocols: A Guideline Review
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Early Childhood Development
Wasting
Few international and national guidelines have detailed discussions of the specific needs of children living with disabilities, and only one mentioned strategies during nutritional emergencies.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Accelerating Progress on Early Childhood Development for Children under 5 Years with Disabilities by 2030
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Disability funding has declined. Only 2 percent of global investments in early childhood development (ECD) from 2007 to 2016 was spent on disabilities, and the funding pattern has not improved since.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
A Pilot to Promote Early Child Development within Health Systems in Mozambique: A Qualitative Evaluation
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Nutrition Assessment, Counseling, and Support (NACS)
Researchers assessed the delivery, acceptability, perceptions, barriers, and facilitators of integrating developmental monitoring, nutritional screening, and counseling in health facilities. They identified programmatic recommendations for enhancing service delivery and maximizing potential impacts on nurturing care and early child development outcomes. This article is behind a paywall.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Assessing Capacity: Lessons from a Social and Behavior Change Competency Assessment in Uganda
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These presentations review the importance of competencies—knowledge, skills, and attitudes—in capacity strengthening for multi-sectoral nutrition, and how to translate them from concepts into tangible, relevant tools for designing high-quality capacity strengthening interventions. The webinars are available in English and French and are accompanied by presentation decks and transcripts.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Basis for Changes in the Disease Burden Estimates Related to Vitamin A and Zinc Deficiencies in the 2017 and 2019 Global Burden of Disease Studies
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Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning
Growth Monitoring and PromotionMicronutrient Interventions
Changes in the estimated disease burdens due to vitamin A and zinc deficiencies from 2017 to 2019 are primarily due to changes in analytical methods employed in the Global Burden of Disease studies; as a result, they may not represent true changes in disease burden.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
The Learning Hub
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Food SecurityResilience
Users can access resources and take free courses focusing on health and nutrition, food security, early childhood development, climate resilience, and other topics. Courses are available in several languages.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Organizational Capacity: An Enhanced Framework
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This framework considers MOMENTUM’s programmatic interests in performance, resilience, sustainability, adaptive learning, and systems thinking.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Localization: A “Landscape” Report
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COVID-19
Humanitarian assistance structures often exclude or marginalize local actors.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
A Theory of Change for Guiding the Integration of Human-Centered Design Into Global Health Programming
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How do human-centered design and traditional global health practices and mindsets integrate to drive more people-centered, innovative solutions to health challenges and achieve common health sector and global health ecosystem goals?
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Zinc Fortification Country Briefs: Burkina Faso, and Senegal
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Food Systems
Micronutrient Interventions
Briefs provide the rationale for zinc fortification, describe zinc deficiency and food fortification efforts, and outline actions that governments and supporting partners can take to remedy zinc deficiency through fortification.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Exchangeable Zinc Pool Size Reflects Form of Zinc Supplementation in Young Children and Is Not Associated with Markers of Inflammation
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Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning
Adolescent NutritionInfant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)Micronutrient Interventions
Researchers commonly use serum or plasma zinc and proxy indicators to assess zinc status, but each has limitations. Longitudinal zinc supplementation affected exchangeable zinc pool (EZP) size and reflected the expected difference in bioavailability for two forms of supplementation.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Different Doses, Forms, and Frequencies of Zinc Supplementation for the Prevention of Diarrhea and Promotion of Linear Growth among Young Bangladeshi Children: A Six-Arm, Randomized, Community-Based Efficacy Trial
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Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning
Growth Monitoring and PromotionMicronutrient Interventions
Researchers evaluating the effects of doses, durations, and frequencies of zinc supplementation found no differences in the incidence or prevalence of diarrhea across five intervention groups in Bangladesh. The decline in children’s linear growth was somewhat smaller in one intervention group compared with the placebo group.
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
Growth Monitoring and Promotion in Three Districts of Nepal: A Case Study Narrative
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Nutrition and Health Systems
Growth Monitoring and Promotion
Routine growth monitoring and promotion (GMP) of infants and young children provides frequent contacts with caregivers and can serve as an entry point for other essential nutrition and child health and development services.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Standing Together for Nutrition Knowledge Hub
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Knowledge Management
Adolescent NutritionCOVID-19GenderMaternal Nutrition
The hub captures emerging evidence on the impact of crises on health, food, economic, social, and education systems; the disproportionate impact on women and girls’ nutrition; and effective measures to mitigate the burden.
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
USAID Advancing Nutrition Kenya Fact Sheet
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Knowledge Management
This two-page fact sheet describes USAID Advancing Nutrition's support to the government of Kenya as it works to strengthen national and county-level government capacity to plan, finance, manage, and implement multi-sectoral nutrition interventions to improve the health of populations at risk of nutritional deficiencies.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
The Implementation Science System Toolkit
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Knowledge Management
Micronutrient Interventions
The toolkit guides users to apply implementation science in nutrition work. Materials focus on assessing bottlenecks, completing bottleneck and solution inventories, undertaking implementation research, and understanding knowledge brokering. A webinar accompanies the toolkit.
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
USAID Large-Scale Food Fortification Programming Guide: Supporting Food Fortification at a Country Level and on a Global Scale
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Food Systems
Food SystemsMicronutrient Interventions
This guide is centered on a results framework and serves as a tool for USAID Bureaus, Missions and development partners across government, the private sector and civil society to assess their specific needs and strategic opportunities, to design, implement, monitor and evaluate, and adjust large-scale food fortification programming for countries based on their local context.
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
Guide du programme : Impliquer les membres de la famille dans l’amélioration de la nutrition maternelle et infantile
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Social and Behavior Change and GenderGender Equality and Women’s Empowerment
Infant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)Maternal Nutrition
Le présent guide traduit les résultats de la recherche en recommandations pratiques pour des interventions qui impliquent effcacement les membres de la famille dans les soins et l’alimentation des enfants.
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
Focusing on Social Norms: A Practical Guide for Nutrition Programmers to Improve Women’s and Children’s Diets
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Social and Behavior Change and Gender
Behavior Change for NutritionComplementary FeedingInfant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)Maternal Nutrition
Social norms influence the meaning and value of food as well as roles and expectations. Updated in 2023 after user testing, this guide is for nutrition program planners and implementers planning norm-responsive activities within nutrition-sensitive or nutrition-specific programming.