Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
USAID works to improve food and nutrition security and resilience of vulnerable populations in Madagascar by addressing nutrition for pregnant and lactating women through promotion of locally-produced supplemental foods. It is also supporting a feasibility study and developing a strategy to introduce and scale up use of these foods.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
From 2000—2021, the Food Aid Quality Review provided support and recommendations to USAID to improve nutrition among vulnerable people for whom the distribution of food assistance can make a significant impact. This legacy website includes a wealth of resources and research to further work in emergency settings.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
This document provides a summary of existing evidence about six innovative community-based management of acute malnutrition protocol modifications. It focuses on effectiveness, operational considerations, costs and cost-effectiveness, successes and challenges, and areas for future research and learning.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Using multiple communication strategies increases the positive effect of social and behavior change on child feeding practices.
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
Introducing solid foods to infants, also known as complementary feeding, is an important part of their growth and development. The purpose of this activity sheet is to explain how to properly introduce solid foods to children.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Various e-learning courses address the importance of measuring women’s empowerment within project-specific contexts, impact evaluation, and economic modeling.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
These tools help harmonize design, implementation, monitoring, and evaluation of nutrition social and behavior change programs. They emphasize prioritizing behaviors that will impact outcomes, addressing critical factors that influence priority nutrition behaviors, and developing activities with a clear pathway between behaviors, factors, and interventions.
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
Experts from the Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Soybean Value Chain Research and their partners are involved in a number of initiatives and programs designed to improve production and utilization of soybeans in sub-Saharan Africa. Their new podcast series, SoyBytes, offers an inside look at innovations and technologies, directly from the experts themselves. In this SoyByte, Dr. Juan Andrade discusses how soy can be included in complementary foods for infants and young children in many parts of sub-Saharan Africa.
Adolescent Nutrition Resource Bank
This document contains answers to common questions about deworming and adolescents. The information is organized into the following categories: overview of soil-transmitted helminth (STH) infection, drug dosage and effects among adolescents, WHO recommended guidelines and policies, evidence on benefits of deworming among adolescents, and programmatic questions.
Adolescent Nutrition Resource Bank
This toolkit is intended to guide the development and implementation of sex- and gender-based analysis (SBGA) within nutrition programs. It is based on the premise that women's empowerment and improved nutrition are mutually reinforcing and that addressing underlying gendered barriers and constraints will improve nutritional outcomes in programming. This toolkit provides information on identifying consultants with gender equality expertise, creating analytical frameworks, and designing gender action plans that support gender equality objectives.