Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
In 2018, Save the Children, with support from USAID’s Office of Foreign Disaster Assistance and the Office of Food for Peace, implemented a multi-purpose cash transfer “Plus” program in Colombia. The program was designed in response to the influx of Venezuelans into Colombia due to political and economic unrest. Cash transfers were meant to cover basic needs in an effort to prevent emergence of negative coping strategies, which impact child safety and nutritional status.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
By revising the undergraduate curriculum and updating service delivery protocols at hospitals, medical colleges are building the capacity of future generations of medical practitioners to deliver evidence-based maternal nutrition and infant and young child nutrition services.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Authors discuss how using the Adaptive Management Framework and the underlying principles of the responsive feedback approach contributed to a project’s success. To be successful, donors and program implementers must ensure sufficient time and resources to adaptive management activities throughout projects and encourage implementers to be open to diverse perspectives.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
The Stronger with Breastmilk Only Initiative has contributed to progress in legislation and policies, coordination, funding, training, program delivery, and research and evaluation. This study highlights how combining a set of interventions to address determinants of breastfeeding at multiple levels can be implemented and contributes to fostering an enabling environment for breastfeeding at scale.
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According to the 2023 Joint Child Malnutrition Estimates, 31.3 million children have moderate wasting. Despite this significant need, much of the global attention to wasting was focused on its severe form because of the higher associated mortality risk. However, the number of children with moderate wasting is significantly higher and managing it effectively is an important way to prevent moderate wasting from turning into severe wasting and corresponding mortality. Until recently, there was very little global guidance on the treatment of moderate wasting.
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
To motivate increasing rates of initiation, exclusive breastfeeding, and duration, this poster shares country experiences building an enabling environment to help institutionalize the Baby-Friendly Hospital Initiative. This poster was presented at the 22nd International Congress of Nutrition in December 2022.
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JSI Research & Training Institute, Inc. (JSI R&T) serves as the Secretariat of the Child Health Task Force, funded by USAID’s Global Health and Africa Bureaus through the USAID Advancing Nutrition project. The Task Force, a global network of child health stakeholders, is aiming to improve operationalization of multi-sectoral action for children, learning from countries collaborating across sectors. This activity is funded by USAID’s Africa Bureau Office of Sustainable Development.
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Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Results point to the need for strategies that address social determinants impacting stunting rather than a more narrow focus on nutrition-specific interventions. Addressing structural drivers of stunting requires multi-sectoral nutrition and social policies.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
To institutionalize the Baby-Friendly Hospital Initiative, systematic coordination, effective communication about national policies and plans, performance monitoring, and multi-sectoral advocacy to secure national and local commitment and funding are all important. Technical assistance should support hospital practices, procedures, and management and strive to understand provider and health system motivations.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Implementation science frameworks help identify key drivers for the scale- up of breastfeeding protection, promotion, and support policies and programs. Advocacy, multi-sectoral political will, financing, monitoring and evaluation, and coordination are key for enabling environments, as is improving maternity protection and tightening regulation and enforcement of the Code of Marketing of Breast-Milk Substitutes.