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.
Innovative Financing Through Food Systems to Improve Diets Webinar
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Food Systems
Catalyzing private sector investment can support small- and medium enterprises access financing to increase the availability and affordability of safe, nutritious foods and scale their operations.
Monitoring and Evaluation Online Course Repository
Developing a Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) Plan for Food Security and Agriculture Programmes
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Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning
This course prepares participants to plan the information needs for monitoring, pilotage, and evaluation over the life cycle of food, nutrition security, and agriculture programs. The course offers practical guidance on building an M&E system that is practical and relevant to a program's needs.
Monitoring and Evaluation Online Course Repository
Fundamentals of Program Evaluation
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Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning
This course outlines different types of program evaluation, including needs assessment, formative research, process evaluation, monitoring of outputs and outcomes, impact assessment, and cost analysis. Participants complete a series of exercises to design a conceptual framework, develop indicators, analyze computerized service statistics, and develop an evaluation plan to measure impact.
Monitoring and Evaluation Online Course Repository
M&E of Population, Health and Nutrition Programs
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Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning
These course materials outline M&E plan design for programs such as nutrition, maternal and child health, and HIV/AIDS. The course provides an overview of results frameworks, program indicators, program evaluation types, and the identification of data sources. Materials include PowerPoint slides with speaker notes, course handouts, case studies, and group activities.
Monitoring and Evaluation Online Course Repository
Data Use for Program Managers (HIV/AIDS-specific)
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Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning
This course promotes data use for evidence-based HIV/AIDS program planning and improvement. Learners understand concepts of data use and how to apply them to make decisions and answer key questions.
Monitoring and Evaluation Online Course Repository
Data Quality
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Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning
This course outlines what data quality is, why it is important, and how programs can improve it, particularly for HIV/AIDS programs. Participants learn the seven dimensions of data quality and identify the types of double counting that can impact quality and the strategies that can be employed to avoid it.
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Gender M&E
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Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning
This course outlines how gender can be integrated into health and gender program M&E. It is useful for M&E officers who seek to integrate a gender perspective into their efforts.
Monitoring and Evaluation Online Course Repository
Demographic and Health Surveys: Data Use
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Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning
This course provides an overview of the Demographic and Health Surveys project so program staff, policymakers, and researchers are better able to use DHS data to make evidence-based decisions.
Monitoring and Evaluation Online Course Repository
Basic and Advanced Impact Analysis
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Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning
This course introduces the application of theories of social and behavior change communication and advanced statistical methods to improve the measurement of health communication impact.
Monitoring and Evaluation Online Course Repository
Introduction to Impact Evaluation of Health Communication Programs
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Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning
This course teaches learners how to apply theories of social and behavior change communication and advanced statistical methods to improve the measurement of health communication impact.
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Economic Evaluation Basics
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Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning
This course provides an overview of the key considerations for conducting economic evaluations and their role in policy and program decision-making. Participants learn about the utility of economic evaluation in international public health, identify the common methods of economic evaluation and which best suits a given situation, and understand how to conduct an economic evaluation.
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Data Demand and Use: An Introduction to Concepts and Tools
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Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning
This course provides the conceptual basis for data-informed decision-making within an organization or program, or at the national, state, or district levels of government. Participants are introduced to several tools created by MEASURE Evaluation to facilitate the use of data in decision-making.
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Monitoring, Evaluation, Research, Learning and Adapting (MERLA)
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Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning
This course takes participants through five modules introducing Monitoring, Evaluation, Research, Learning, and Adapting (MERLA) for international development programs.
The poster focuses on increasing breastmilk supply by adopting skin-to-skin contact, frequent breastfeeding, and breast compression practices. It is available in Bulgarian, Chinese (traditional and simplified), English, German, Greek, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Spanish, Ukrainian, and Vietnamese.
Social and Behavior Change Resources for Women's Healthy Diets: 5 Gaps and Recommendations
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Social and Behavior Change and GenderMaternal Nutrition
To explore the gaps in social and behavior change (SBC) resources for women’s healthy diets, USAID Advancing Nutrition identified quality SBC tools and resources through document review and expert interviews. In addition, we identified five key gaps in existing SBC resources and five recommendations for future research and SBC resource development.
Getting Practical: Integrating Social Norms into Social and Behavior Change Programs
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While social and behavior change program implementers may be aware that social norms are powerful influencers of behaviors and outcomes, many are unsure about how to integrate social norms-shifting programming into program design.