News and Features
This USAID Advancing Nutrition case study on Yemen was featured in a special section of the Emergency Nutrition Network's Field Exchange.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Growth monitoring and promotion (GMP) is a common platform for delivering child health and nutrition services. This report highlights findings, challenges, good practices, and innovations that stakeholders can use to foster healthy child growth and development. In particular, empowering families and communities, supporting health workers, and monitoring data could increase the potential of GMP to prevent malnutrition.
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
The 2020 UNICEF report titled "Improving Young Children’s Diets during the Complementary Feeding Period" provides an Action Framework to improve the diets of children 6–23 months of age. This report is one of four case studies that use the Action Framework as a tool to examine the efforts in emergency contexts to support complementary feeding. Lessons from this case study provide examples, for both country-level practitioners and global-level decision makers, of program interventions and policies to support complementary feeding in emergencies.
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
The 2020 UNICEF report titled "Improving Young Children’s Diets during the Complementary Feeding Period" provides an Action Framework to improve the diets of children 6–23 months of age. This report is one of four case studies that use the Action Framework as a tool to examine the efforts in emergency contexts to support complementary feeding. Lessons from this case study provide examples, for both country-level practitioners and global-level decision makers, of program interventions and policies to support complementary feeding in emergencies.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Nutrition policies, plans, and programs have often not been adequately risk informed. Case studies examine how humanitarian and development partners can bridge divisions that exist and reinforce a humanitarian-development nexus to balance short-term responses with longer-term solutions. A French version is also available.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Small and sick newborns face serious risk of developmental delays, but most newborns can survive and thrive, provided they have access to quality nurturing care. This package summarizes nurturing care evidence and best practices for this population. It includes an updated evidence review of the core elements of developmentally supportive, family-centered, and nurturing care; implementation experience from seven countries with high-, middle- and low-income settings; and a gap analysis to inform future research.
Adolescent Nutrition Resource Bank
This article documents the experiences of adolescent girls in selected towns in Northern Nigeria participating in care groups of 10–15 trained volunteer community-based health educators. Their experiences were captured through focus group discussions and key informant interviews. It highlights key learning points (barriers, boosters, and best practices) for International Medical Corps staff planning to include adolescents in care groups, and the wider food security/nutrition community to more effectively tailor programs to include adolescent girls and meet their unique needs.
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
Case study 2: Adeck Juice Bar, an all-natural smoothie bar run by a young entrepreneur in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.
Anemia Toolkit
This case study describes the development of the Iron Intensification Project in Nepal, its design, the implementation process at the district level, the strategy used to scale it up, the data available to describe coverage, and the reduction in maternal anemia in the country between 1998 and 2006. Lessons learned for sustaining and strengthening the program in Nepal are discussed, as well as the usefulness of the program model for translation to other countries.
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
The 2018 implementation guidance for the Baby-Friendly Hospital Initiative (BFHI) recommends institutionalizing the Ten Steps through nine national responsibilities for universal coverage and sustainability. In the Kyrgyz Republic, the case study explored responsibility, development and implementation of incentives and/or sanctions, and responsibility in Malawi, providing technical assistance (TA).