Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
UNICEF’s executive director and youth representatives discuss young people’s struggles with their food choices and food environments, share how young people are contributing to the transformation of global and local food systems, and offer concrete next steps to ensure that children and young people are at the center of discussions about food systems transformation. This is a webinar.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Women who received nutrition advice were more likely to eat larger quantities of food during pregnancy compared with women who did not, while women who received antenatal care and advice on nutrition before, during, and after pregnancy were more likely to eat a wider variety of foods. Access to health services was associated with frequency of eating in the previous 24 hours, while receiving advice on nutrition during pregnancy and after giving birth, and having contact with community health workers were associated with mothers’ dietary diversity during the same time period.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Large-scale food fortification may be a cost-effective intervention to increase micronutrient supplies in the food system when implemented under appropriate conditions. While the model predicted that large-scale food fortification would contribute to reducing vitamin A inadequacies, additional interventions are important to address other micronutrient deficiencies, especially for the rural poor.
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
This reference offers information and step-by-step instructions on using anthropometry to assess the nutritional status of individuals and communities. This resource can be used to better collect, understand, and use anthropometric data as part of service provision, surveillance, surveys, monitoring and evaluation, or program design. Module 3 focuses on anthropometry of children and adolescents ages 5 to 19 years (61–228 completed months).
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Results point to the need for strategies that address social determinants impacting stunting rather than a more narrow focus on nutrition-specific interventions. Addressing structural drivers of stunting requires multi-sectoral nutrition and social policies.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Recent literature has critically examined the use of stunting as an indicator for evaluating the impact of nutrition interventions. The guidance document suggests approaches and indicators to measure the results of nutrition programs in a comprehensive and meaningful way.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Given the role that dietary diversity plays in the health status of children, implementing nutrition-specific interventions and strengthening existing interventions to improve infant and young child feeding practices is particularly important in countries where the prevalence of adequate minimum dietary diversity is low and undernutrition is high.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Data collected to determine the relationship between the Nutrition Governance Index (NGI) and anthropometry highlight the importance of effective management of policy-based programming and resource use to produce nutrition gains. The NGI explains variation in height-for-age and weight-for-height, underscoring the important role that good governance plays in promoting child nutrition and growth.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Scaling up prenatal nutrition interventions in low- and middle-income countries from current levels to 90 percent may lead to substantial gains in schooling and lifetime income. Decision-makers should consider potential long-term human capital returns on investments in maternal nutrition.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Findings showed that maternal education and age, paternal education and wealth, culture and geographic location, and utilization of health services were associated with minimum dietary diversity, minimum meal frequency, and minimum acceptable diet. Interventions to improve complementary feeding practices should be tailored to the population at the caregiver, household, service use, community, and policy levels.