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Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Social and Behaviour Change Communication to Improve Child Feeding Practices in Ethiopia
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Adolescent Nutrition
Using multiple communication strategies increases the positive effect of social and behavior change on child feeding practices.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
State of the Evidence 2021—Modifications Aiming to Optimize Acute Malnutrition Management in Children under Five
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Wasting
This document provides a summary of existing evidence about six innovative community-based management of acute malnutrition protocol modifications. It focuses on effectiveness, operational considerations, costs and cost-effectiveness, successes and challenges, and areas for future research and learning.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Improving Nutrition Through Food Assistance: Achievements of the Food Aid Quality Review
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Emergency Nutrition
From 2000—2021, the Food Aid Quality Review provided support and recommendations to USAID to improve nutrition among vulnerable people for whom the distribution of food assistance can make a significant impact. This legacy website includes a wealth of resources and research to further work in emergency settings.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Join #theHumanRace to Improve Nutrition and Address the Climate Crisis in Humanitarian Responses
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Adolescent NutritionFood SecurityWater, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH)
USAID works to improve food and nutrition security and resilience of vulnerable populations in Madagascar by addressing nutrition for pregnant and lactating women through promotion of locally-produced supplemental foods. It is also supporting a feasibility study and developing a strategy to introduce and scale up use of these foods.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Infant and Young Child Feeding in Emergencies Hub
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Emergency NutritionInfant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)
The IYCFEHub curates resources focused on infant and young child nutrition in emergencies and humanitarian contexts.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Enhancing the Quality of Health Services—Introduction to a New Planning Guide for Implementers
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Adolescent Nutrition
Speakers discuss how the WHO Quality Health Services planning guide can support staff at the district and facility levels to improve the quality of health services. This is a webinar.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
The Triple Burden of Malnutrition Among Adolescents in Indonesia
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Adolescent NutritionMicronutrient Interventions
Information gaps about drivers and determinants of the triple burden of malnutrition, evidence-based interventions, and effective delivery platforms to reach the most vulnerable adolescents remain.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Maternal Micronutrient Supplementation: What Does It Take to Improve Adherence?
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Maternal NutritionMicronutrient Interventions
This e-learning course provides program planners and implementers with guidance and tools to improve the quality of maternal micronutrient supplementation programs delivered in antenatal care and postnatal care settings.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Maternal Depression is Associated with Less Dietary Diversity among Rural Nepali Children
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Adolescent Nutrition
There is a correlation between maternal depression and child dietary diversity, but growth and development of children of depressed mothers who are depressed did not differ from that of children of mothers who are not depressed.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Effect of Feeding Practices on Nutritional Status of Infant and Young Children Residing in Urban Slums of Berhampur: A Decision Tree Approach
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WastingBreastfeedingInfant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)
Exclusive breastfeeding (EBF), early initiation of breastfeeding (EIBF), and minimum dietary diversity (MDD) predicted wasting. Stunting predictors included EBF, minimum meal frequency, and MDD, while underweight predictors included EBF, EIBF, and MDD.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Do Non-Maternal Adult Female Household Members Influence Child Nutrition? Empirical Evidence from Ethiopia
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Adolescent Nutrition
Having an additional non-maternal adult female household member is significantly associated with higher height-for-age and weight-for-age z-scores and reduces the likelihood of severe stunting.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
International Dietary Data Expansion (INDDEX) Project Publications and Presentations
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The INDDEX Project helps low- and middle-income countries increase acquisition and use of high quality, timely food consumption data to improve agriculture, food security, and nutrition outcomes. This virtual platform provides links to several webinars, journal articles, technical reports, and discussion papers related to the project’s dietary assessment tools.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Compendium of Nutrition Intervention Coverage Indicators & Questions for Household Surveys
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The document provides indicator definitions and accompanying questions for nutrition interventions across the maternal, newborn, and child health continuum of care.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Review of Existing Models to Predict Reductions in Neural Tube Defects Due to Folic Acid Fortification and Model Results Using Data from Cameroon
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Micronutrient Interventions
Collecting dietary and biomarker data as well as neural tube defect outcome data should accompany modeling to predict the effects of folic acid intake or status on neural tube defect risk. Researchers recommend using models based on erythrocyte folate concentration.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Preanalytic and Analytic Factors Affecting the Measurement of Haemoglobin Concentration: Impact on Global Estimates of Anaemia Prevalence
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Anemia
Global estimates of anemia prevalence derived from capillary hemoglobin may lead to erroneous severity classification, but point-of-care or other instruments should not introduce variation if properly used.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Considerations for Monitoring School Health and Nutrition Programs
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COVID-19Food Security
Authors provide an overview of how to select monitoring indicators across a school health and nutrition (SHN) program's logical framework and discuss how SHN programs must adapt when schools are closed.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Comparing Costs and Cost‐Efficiency of Platforms for Micronutrient Powder (MNP) Delivery to Children in Rural Uganda
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Adolescent NutritionMicronutrient Interventions
While community-based micronutrient powder delivery costs are higher than facility-based delivery, they are more cost-efficient per child reached and produce better outcomes.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
2021 Global Food Policy Report: COVID-19’s Impact on Agriculture and Food Systems in South Asia
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Food SecurityMicronutrient InterventionsNutrition Sensitive AgricultureResilience
The second wave of COVID-19 overwhelmed health systems and disrupted livelihoods, agriculture, and food systems. The public sector has an important role to play in moderating food price volatility by investing in storage, marketing, cold chains, and processing.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
The Rising COVID Malnutrition Crisis
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Adolescent NutritionCOVID-19Maternal Nutrition
Modeling indicates that by 2022, there will be an additional 13.6 million severely malnourished children, 3.6 million more stunted children, and 283,000 additional deaths of children. Speakers, including USAID Chief Nutritionist Shawn Baker, discuss opportunities to integrate nutrition into global COVID-19 response and recovery plans. This is a webinar.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Building Better Breastfeeding Counselling Programmes: New Tools for Implementation
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BreastfeedingInfant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)Nutrition Assessment, Counseling, and Support (NACS)
This webinar provides an overview of breastfeeding-related tools, including implementation guidance on counseling women to improve breastfeeding practices; a training course for infant and young child feeding counseling; operational guidance for breastfeeding counseling in emergencies; and an advocacy brief about the role of midwives and nurses in protecting, promoting, and supporting breastfee