Disability Resource Bank
This resource library compiles videos and booklets on the proper feeding of children with cerebral palsy.
News and Features
Well-supported educators and accessible teaching materials are essential to a quality education for grade-school children. USAID Advancing Nutrition partnered with USAID's Okuu Keremet! to develop more than 20 new books, responding to the need for nutrition-related teaching materials for children in the Kyrgyz Republic. Okuu Keremet! (Learning is Awesome!) is a five-year project focused on improving the quality of reading and math education among 300,000 school students in all Oblasts of the Kyrgyz Republic.
Disability Resource Bank
This brief describes the SPOON's Feeding and Nutrition Package, which is for organizations that serve children with disabilities or children outside family care.
Activity
USAID Advancing Nutrition implements social and behavior change (SBC) formative research, using human-centered design approaches to identify priority behaviors and design solutions to improve household nutrition and empower rural women in rural Assam, India.
Activity
Collaborating to facilitate collecting reliable, comparable information on diet quality across country contexts
Disability Resource Bank
Registered Dietitian Nutritionists (RDNs) can use these standards for self-evaluation to assure competent practice and to determine education and training needs for advancement to a higher practice level.
News and Features
Prioritizing children with feeding difficulties and disabilities is vital to helping them thrive, but they are routinely excluded from nutrition programs, services, and policies.
Nawiri Study
Through a labor market assessment, USAID Nawiri explored constraints and opportunities for livelihoods, entry points for interventions, and the potential effect on nutrition outcomes.
News and Features
On April 29–30, 2023, key stakeholders attended a workshop to discuss developing digital tracking and decision support (DTDS) tools for growth monitoring and promotion (GMP) in Nepal.
Event
Adolescence is a critical time in the life cycle, presenting what is sometimes called a "second window of opportunity" in an individual’s growth and development. USAID Advancing Nutrition believes that the international development community must give greater attention to the nutritional status and practices of this age group.