Job Posting
The ECD Advisor is open for recruitment through five USAID Advancing Nutrition Consortium partners: JSI Research & Training, Save the Children, Results for Development, Helen Keller International, and NCBA-CLUSA.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Participants in this study prioritized joint decision-making between women and men about agriculture-related household assets and women’s use of improved practices to grow nutrient-dense vegetables and fruits or to fish for household consumption and sales. Using a human-centered design approach, participants identified interventions to address harmful gender and social norms, including nutrition-sensitive agriculture training and exposure visits, that let women visit other successful female producers to learn about their experiences and practices.
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.
Job Posting
The USAID Advancing Nutrition Finance & Operations Project Officer position is open for recruitment from on a rolling basis through Jun 1, 2020. This position is fully dedicated to USAID Advancing Nutrition and is based in JSI's Arlington office. Qualified applicants are encouraged to apply through the JSI Jobs Portal using the link below:
Apply with JSI Research & Training
Activity
USAID Advancing Nutrition organized a series of trainings on good agricultural practices and nutrition in Bauchi, Kebbi, and Sokoto States in Nigeria.
Job Posting
USAID Advancing Nutrition (USAID AN) is seeking consultant in Kenya to develop a breastfeeding counseling mentorship program for Kenya. USAID AN is collaborating with the Kenya Ministry of Health, the USAID Mission of Kenya and East Africa, USAID Bureau of Global Health, and key country stakeholders to design and test a facility-based mentorship program to strengthen capacity to provide breastfeeding counseling in Kenya. In support of this work, the consultant will be expected to:
News and Features
Kitui County is one of Kenya’s arid and semiarid areas, which makes it difficult to grow crops, leaving people vulnerable to malnutrition.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
The review proposes recommendations to improve caregiver practices, strengthen the quality of feeding counseling during illness, address evidence gaps related to feeding care during illness, and identify enablers and barriers to those providing optimal feeding counseling and support after illness or during recovery. Recommendations include strengthening training, skills building, and supervision for health providers; managing workloads so health providers have time to provide quality counseling; and educating community influencers.
Focus Area Subpage
Strengthening nutrition outcomes requires strong country commitment and capacity. USAID Advancing Nutrition supported localization through support to local leadership, strengthening local systems, and providing technical assistance to key stakeholders.
Activity
In Ghana, we tested an approach to integrate responsive care and early learning content into existing nutrition counseling services to support improved caregiving practices.