Policymakers, program managers, and service providers—teachers, health care providers, extension agents, religious and community leaders—need the competencies (knowledge, skills, and attitudes) to serve and support adolescent boys and girls in accordance with global recommendations and national policies and protocols. This will require clear job descriptions, training (pre-service or in-service, offsite or on-the-job), mentorship, and supportive supervision, along with access to effective strategies, tools, and resources. Adolescents and their families also need competencies to support, adopt
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This community of practice supports activity teams that facilitate the Nutrition-Sensitive Agriculture Design Guide workshop.
News and Features
Nutrition experts reviewed the content of the Service Provision Assessment (SPA) and recommended inclusion of Baby-Friendly Hospital Initiative indicators in the next round of surveys.
News and Features
Senior Advisor for Nutrition and SBCC Peggy Koniz-Booher presented in Austria on Understanding the Double Burden of Malnutrition for Effective Interventions.
News and Features
USAID Advancing Nutrition believes that the international development community must give greater attention to the nutritional status and practices of adolescents.
Project Leadership
Pauline Okello joins the USAID Advancing Nutrition team as the new Chief of Party in Uganda, bringing with her over 15 years of experience working on health sector projects in Uganda. Her areas of expertise are integrated maternal and child health, nutrition and WASH, malaria, HIV/AIDS, and health systems strengthening. Pauline has worked with various International Organizations including HealthPartners, MSH, FHI360, IntraHealth and the Palladium Group.
Activity
USAID Advancing Nutrition is supporting the scale-up of gender transformative activities in nutrition-sensitive agriculture to empower women, increase incomes, and improve nutrition.
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.
News and Features
USAID Advancing Nutrition and the Ugandan Ministry of Health convened a National Working Group on food fortification.
USAID Advancing Nutrition was the Agency’s flagship multi-sectoral nutrition project from 2018-2023, led by JSI Research & Training Institute, Inc. (JSI), and a diverse group of experienced partners.