USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
To date, there has been limited integration of responsive care and early learning in health and nutrition services. The Nurturing Care Framework provides guidance to help children and families thrive through care for the individual child within a broader enabling environment of capable caregivers, empowered communities, supportive services, and enabling policies (WHO 2018). This profile compiles national data alongside information on national policies and programs to highlight both the needs and opportunities for promoting optimal child development in Bangladesh.
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
To date, there has been limited integration of responsive care and early learning in health and nutrition services. The Nurturing Care Framework provides guidance to help children and families thrive through care for the individual child within a broader enabling environment of capable caregivers, empowered communities, supportive services, and enabling policies (WHO 2018). This profile compiles national data alongside information on national policies and programs to highlight both the needs and opportunities for promoting optimal child development in Ethiopia.
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
To date, there has been limited integration of responsive care and early learning in health and nutrition services. The Nurturing Care Framework provides guidance to help children and families thrive through care for the individual child within a broader enabling environment of capable caregivers, empowered communities, supportive services, and enabling policies (WHO 2018). This profile compiles national data alongside information on national policies and programs to highlight both the needs and opportunities for promoting optimal child development in Cambodia.
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
The Strengthening Partnerships, Results, and Innovations in Nutrition Globally (SPRING) Project and the Pan American Health Organization identified the need for a core set of key practices that characterize the diet and feeding practices associated with good nutrition among adolescent girls, women, and pregnant and breastfeeding women. This is one of two papers commissioned to provide the relevant scientific and programmatic background to begin to address this goal.
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
To date, there has been limited integration of responsive care and early learning in health and nutrition services. The Nurturing Care Framework provides guidance to help children and families thrive through care for the individual child within a broader enabling environment of capable caregivers, empowered communities, supportive services, and enabling policies (WHO 2018). This profile compiles national data alongside information on national policies and programs to highlight both the needs and opportunities for promoting optimal child development in the Kyrgyz Republic.
Activity
USAID Advancing Nutrition is supporting efforts to strengthen counseling related to prevention of common childhood illnesses and malnutrition within the integrated community case management program.
News and Features
With support from USAID Advancing Nutrition, Ghana’s National Development Planning Commission has developed the Ghana Multi-Sector Food and Nutrition Security Guidelines, a critical resource for prioritizing and strengthening food and nutrition security interventions.
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
This brief provides information on how to design small- and medium-quantity lipid-based nutrient supplement (LNS-SQ and LNS-MQ) programs that promote improved nutritional status of women and young children in resource-limited settings. The document also overviews considerations for program design and how LNS can be incorporated to complement or enhance a range of community health and development programs.
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
Social and behavior change (SBC) is necessary to improve all components of feeding young children: adequate food, adequate services, and adequate feeding practices. This workbook highlights challenges and examples specific to quality SBC for improving complementary feeding. The basic concepts of quality SBC design; implementation; and monitoring, evaluation, and learning (MEL) presented in this workbook can be used for improving other nutrition behaviors. For any behavior, be sure to tailor the steps to the local context and engage appropriate stakeholders along the way.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
While calls for partnership measurement are increasing, no standard approaches or indicators exist. This review recommends developing context-specific measurement approaches. To overcome identified challenges, use multiple indicators and mixed-methods approaches to capture complexity, outcome diversity, and the contributions of partnerships to outcomes. Prioritize participatory approaches and engage all partners in the process.