USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
This guide provides materials needed to facilitate nutrition-sensitive agriculture design workshops. Paired with two PowerPoint slide decks, it provides instructions for facilitators to conduct a three-day workshop that helps activity teams establish contextually appropriate, nutrition-sensitive agriculture outcomes, interventions, and indicators. Workshop participants discuss outcomes to consider that will lead to improved nutritional status and then develop interventions to contain underlying contributors to malnutrition.
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Our work in capacity strengthening was founded in a competency-based approach. Identifying and using relevant competencies is the starting point for designing activities to assess, develop and evaluate essential skills for multi-sectoral nutrition.
Job Posting
The communications consultant will collaborate with two local organizations in Kenya to develop communications strategies and provide other communications support as requested. The ideal candidate will have:
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
Since knowledge about feeding young children generally derives from family beliefs, community practices, and information given by health workers, there is a need to empower health workers and community volunteers to provide caregivers with the relevant information and support to achieve optimal nutrition for their children. The Nigeria Community and Facility Infant and Young Child Feeding Package is a necessary tool to ensure uniform training and information sharing throughout Nigeria.
Activity
Health workers in the Mamprugu-Moagduri District of Ghana are now equipped with the knowledge and support they need to identify and manage cases of acute malnutrition in children in their communities.
Job Posting
USAID Advancing Nutrition is in search of a Senior Advisor, Capacity Strengthening (CS). This position is open from December 21, 2021 - January 18, 2022. The Senior Advisor will lead the design and implementation of CS activities across the portfolio, with an emphasis on organizational development and measurement. The ideal candidate will have an advanced degree in a related field and 15 years of experience working in international public health programming.
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:
Disability Resource Bank
This set of resources provides information on the support available to people with cleft lip and/or palate and their caregivers.
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
This implementation kit provides step-by-step guidance on using social and behavior change communication (SBCC) to change provider behavior, and thereby improve client outcomes. It is designed to help learners understand factors that influence provider behavior, design an assessment to understand the specific barriers their providers face, and develop an SBCC intervention to address those barriers. The kit is intended for anyone working with and interested in changing provider behavior and improving services.