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We had the opportunity to showcase the breadth and depth of the project’s technical expertise in evaluating caregiver needs, social and behavior change programming, and food environments at ANH 2023.
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USAID Advancing Nutrition sponsored the 2022 International Social and Behavior Change Communication (SBCC) Summit from December 5–9, 2022 in Marrakech, Morocco.
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
This infographic shows the steps health workers should take to provide nutrition assessment, counseling, and support services.
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
Comparing Household Food Consumption Indicators to Inform Acute Food Insecurity Phase Classification
An important Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) component is the Acute Food Insecurity Reference Table for Household Group Classification (household reference table), which provides qualitative, graduated descriptions of five acute food insecurity phases, along with thresholds for key household-level outcome indicators that can be used to classify the severity of acute food insecurity. In this study, researchers examined the relationships among select household food consumption outcome indicators commonly used in acute IPC analyses.
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.
Disability Resource Bank
The CCD Package guides health workers and other counselors as they help families build stronger relationships with their children and solve problems in caring for them at home.
Anemia Toolkit
The MotherCare Project, a USAID-funded program, was aimed at preventing maternal and perinatal mortality and morbidity. The project included activities that engaged in a series of applied research initiatives and offered short-term technical and training support. Examples of resources developed for use in Indonesia include pill reminders and other communication materials.
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This webinar shared results of scoping and mixed methods reviews of studies examining behavioral interventions to increase family support for recommended maternal and child nutrition practices in low- and middle-income countries.
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
One billion people worldwide have a disability, and 80 percent of them live in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). The prevalence of feeding difficulties globally ranges from 25–45 percent to 33–80 percent in children without and with disabilities, respectively. We conducted a scoping review of programs supporting nutritional care of children with disability and non-disability related feeding difficulties. The non-systematic scoping review included a desk review of peer-reviewed and non-peer-reviewed literature and key informant interviews.
Improving adolescent nutrition depends heavily on behaviors such as diet and eating practices, exercise, lifestyle, and use of health services. Social and behavior change (SBC) strategies must consider how unique structural and environmental factors that affect adolescents’ access to services and adoption of priority behaviors. Formative research, concept testing, and pre-testing of materials and approaches are needed to identify barriers and enablers to behavior change and to better understand how adolescents engage with family members, friends, teachers, health care providers, religious