Adolescent Nutrition Resource Bank
These videos summarize testimonials from health workers, teachers, and adolescent students who were part of the Alive & Thrive intervention in Amhara; Somali; and Southern Nations, Nationalities, and People's regions of Ethiopia.
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
This reference offers information and step-by-step instructions on using anthropometry to assess the nutritional status of individuals and communities. This resource can be used to better collect, understand, and use anthropometric data as part of service provision, surveillance, surveys, monitoring and evaluation, or program design. Module 3 focuses on anthropometry of children and adolescents ages 5 to 19 years (61–228 completed months).
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
This toolkit supports governments in their efforts to ensure sustainable vitamin A supplementation and de-worming program delivery mechanisms. It includes a collection of tools on child anemia reduction, maternal anemia reduction, and food fortification.
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
The Minimum Package of Activities (MPA) is a tool that aims to strengthen the knowledge and skills of health center staff in Cambodia in regard to nutrition to improve the health of mothers and young children. The revised MPA Module 10, from 2009, focuses on the six contacts health center staff have with pregnant women and mothers with young children. The training module includes a facilitators’ manual, participants’ manual job aids, PowerPoint presentations with facilitator notes, and a checklist for counseling and communication.
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
Over the last five years, USAID Advancing Nutrition has supported locally-led development through our New Partnerships Initiative (NPI) program, and country-funded activities in Kenya, Burkina Faso, Nigeria, Mozambique, and the Kyrgyz Republic. This brief summarizes what we learned about effectively measuring organizational capacity and provides suggestions for supporting partners’ growth through our organizational development programming.
News and Features
On September 25, 2023, USAID Advancing Nutrition celebrated four years of implementation in the Kyrgyz Republic. Representatives from the government of Kyrgyzstan, public health organizations, and local and international partners attended the end-of-project event to share and discuss project outcomes and insights
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
This implementation kit aims to help service delivery project managers effectively use service communication to enhance the impact of their project. This kit can be used to help increase demand for and uptake of services, and improve consistent long-term maintenance of healthy behaviors. It is designed to help users understand key service communication concepts, apply social and behavior change communication (SBCC) techniques to create successful communication activities, and learn how to better coordinate efforts with SBCC projects.
Job Posting
The USAID Advancing Nutrition Project Coordinator, Nutrition and Health Systems, and Social Behavior Change (NHS & SBC) position is open for recruitment From February 20 - March 4. The position is advertised through JSI Research & Training and aims
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
The Demographic and Health Survey (DHS) Program has collected anthropometric (height and weight) data from children, women, and men for more than 30 years to help countries monitor and evaluate their progress in improving nutritional status. This blog provides an overview of the tools and processes DHS has developed to improve the collection of anthropometric data.