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Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Methods, Tools, and Metrics for Evaluating Market Food Environments in Low- and Middle-Income Countries
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Food Systems
Food SecurityPrivate-Sector Engagement
A landscape assessment, ranking exercise, and survey informed a priority list of methods, tools, and metrics to evaluate informal and formal market food environments. Authors advocate for a mixed-methods approach to monitoring and evaluating market food environments.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Generating Demand for Healthy Diets: A Guide to Social Marketing in Nutrition
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Food Systems
Food SafetyFood SecurityFood SystemsPrivate-Sector Engagement
The guide provides practical advice, examples, and resources for planning and executing social marketing campaigns to improve nutrition outcomes.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Responsive Care and Early Learning Addendum
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Early Childhood Development
Infant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)
The package includes illustrated counseling cards; training materials; and a guide for planning, adapting, and implementing individual and group counseling sessions. Accompanying videos show real caregiver-child interactions for newborns and young children and counseling sessions between a health worker and caregiver.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Feeding and Disability Resource Bank
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Early Childhood Development
Materials in this resource bank help program managers, government leaders, and donor agency staff design and implement effective nutrition programs for children with disabilities. Information focuses on identifying and managing feeding difficulties, identifying disabilities, supporting children with disabilities and their families, and promoting disability inclusion.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Country Profiles Aim to Advance Nurturing Care for Improved Early Childhood Development
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Early Childhood Development
Infant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)
Country profiles present country-level secondary data, policies, and programs focused on improving nutrition and early childhood development outcomes through the provision of nurturing care.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Nutritional Care for Children with Feeding Difficulties and Disabilities: A Scoping Review
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Early Childhood Development
This review offers recommendations including strengthening systems to improve identification and service provision, providing direct support to families to improve nutrition outcomes, engaging in advocacy to raise awareness of needs and opportunities, and building the evidence base on effective interventions.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Tool and Guide for Reviewing the Nutrition Content of Pre-Service Training Curricula
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Capacity Strengthening
AnemiaBreastfeedingInfant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)Maternal NutritionMicronutrient InterventionsNutrition Assessment, Counseling, and Support (NACS)Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH)
These resources can be used to assess and revise nutrition content in pre-service training curricula for health workers who provide frontline nutrition services. It is available in English and Russian.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Effectively Measuring Training: Building Knowledge and Skills for Nutrition Programs
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Capacity Strengthening
BreastfeedingInfant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)
Using best practices from the capacity strengthening field, this brief series guides program managers and technical staff to assess nutrition training programs. Additional briefs explore the challenges of measuring capacity strengthening activities and illustrate measurement tools and approaches at work in Uganda.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Defining Social and Behavior Change Competencies for Multi-Sectoral Nutrition: A List for Assessing, Developing, and Evaluating Staff Skills
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Capacity StrengtheningSocial and Behavior Change and Gender
Food SecurityGenderWater, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH)
The tool identifies social and behavior change (SBC) competencies that project staff need to design, implement, and evaluate SBC components of nutrition programs. Program managers can use these competencies to guide hiring decisions, identify capacity strengthening priorities, and track performance. It is available in English and French.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Designing Effective Nutrition-Sensitive Agriculture Activities: Facilitator's Guide and Slides
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Capacity StrengtheningFood Systems
Nutrition Sensitive Agriculture
This set of design workshop materials helps activity teams develop contextually appropriate, nutrition-sensitive agriculture outcomes, interventions, and indicators. The facilitator’s guide and accompanying slide decks are available in English and French.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Call to Action for Strengthening Nutrition Content in Pre-Service Training
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Capacity Strengthening
Infant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)Maternal NutritionMicronutrient InterventionsNutrition Assessment, Counseling, and Support (NACS)
Investing in pre-service training is an effective and sustainable way to improve nutrition services, but it requires collaboration among governments, academic institutions, professional associations, funders, and technical experts to ensure curricula prepare frontline health workers to deliver quality nutrition services. The brief is available in English, French, and Portuguese.
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
Nutrition Supervision Tools, Mozambique
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Food Systems
This document, created by USAID Advancing Nutrition and The Ministry of Health of Mozambique, is a 2021 supervision evaluation tool for Mozambique's Nutrition Program.
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
USAID Advancing Nutrition Kenya: Final Project Report
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Nutrition Sensitive Agriculture
This is a report written by the USAID Advancing Nutrition Kenya team that outlines the work and accomplishments for the duration of this activity.
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
Report on Mapping of Sectoral and Multi-Sectoral Coordination Mechanisms for Nutrition at the National Level
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The mapping exercise sought to establish the presence and functionality of coordination mechanisms, bottlenecks, motivators and capacity gaps to effective sectoral and multi-sectoral coordination at the national level in Kenya.
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
La chaîne d'approvisionnement en aliments thérapeutiques prêts à l'emploi en République démocratique du Congo : Analyse et recommandations pour le renforcement de la livraison du dernier kilomètre dans les provinces du Kasaï Oriental et du Nord Kivu
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Nutrition in Humanitarian Contexts
Emergency NutritionWasting
En République démocratique du Congo (RDC), le grand nombre d'enfants souffrant d'émaciation sévère a entraîné une augmentation de la demande d'aliments thérapeutiques prêts à l'emploi (ATPE), le produit utilisé pour traiter les enfants en soins ambulatoires (IPC 2022).
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
Blanket Supplementary Feeding in the Democratic Republic of the Congo: Findings from a Learning Activity
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Nutrition in Humanitarian Contexts
Wasting
This report describes a learning activity that reviewed how the World Food Programme has designed and implemented blanket supplementary feeding programs (BSFP) in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) over the last 3–5 years, including the identification of any global guidance used.
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
Gestion du de l'émaciation modéré à l'aide d'aliments locaux : Documentation des approches au Nigéria, au Sénégal et en Ouganda
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Nutrition in Humanitarian Contexts
WastingEmergency Nutrition
Les praticiens et les bailleurs de fonds doivent mieux comprendre la diversité des approches alimentaires locales utilisées pour gérer l'émaciation modérée.
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
Considérations clés pour impliquer les hommes dans les programmes de nutrition chez la mère, le nourrisson et le jeune enfant
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Nutrition in Humanitarian Contexts
Behavior Change for NutritionResilience and Food Security Activity (RFSA)
De plus en plus de données avérées suggèrent que l'implication des hommes dans la nutrition est souvent associée à une amélioration de l'alimentation des nourrissons et des jeunes enfants, à des pratiques alimentaires maternelles, à une amélioration des relations de couple et à un renforcement de la prise de décision conjointe.Reconnaissant l'influence des hommes sur la NMNJE, les partenaires d
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
Anemia in the Kyrgyz Republic: USAID Advancing Nutrition Supports Anemia Reduction Efforts
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Anemia
This is a technical brief produced by USAID Advancing Nutrition Kyrgyz Republic that discusses the overall anemia situation in the country, outlines what the project has done to address this, and discusses key next steps and suggestions for future work in this field.
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
An Impact Evaluation of USAID Advancing Nutrition’s Project to Improve Maternal and Child Nutrition in the Kyrgyz Republic
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This is a journal article written by the USAID Advancing Nutrition Kyrgyzstan team to evaluate the project’s impact on health and nutrition behaviors and the sustainability of that impact through reduced intervention intensity one year later.