Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Presenters discuss drivers of individual and household food choice in changing food environments; next steps for application and scaling; and prominent issues and questions confronting policy, practice, and research at the nexus of food environments, nutrition, and health. This is a series of webinars.
Activity
USAID and other implementing and academic organizations have developed virtual Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning (MEL) courses available to practitioners at no cost.
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
This report describes 42 potential policy actions that support food systems in delivering nutritious, high-quality diets for all. It draws from recent evidence to outline specific actions that policymakers or programmers can enact across different components of the food system, from production, supply chains, food environments, to consumers. The authors plan to produce a follow-up report that will highlight which actions are essential to nutritious food systems and should be implemented at a minimum in every context.
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
The Food Systems Dashboard serves as a tool to access and visualize data drawn from multiple sources. Policymakers and programmers can use the Dashboard to compare food systems across regions and countries, track progress on key indicators, and identify and prioritize ways to sustainably improve diets and nutrition in their food systems. The current version of the dashboard primarily includes global and national level data sources.
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
This handbook provides entry points for policy makers for how to shift food systems towards providing safer, affordable, accessible, and nutritious diets. The handbook includes sections on evidence, recommendations, and examples, focusing on 13 key topic areas: food price volatility, climate change, food safety, healthy meals in schools, food environments, consumer behavior, metrics and data, bio fortification, food loss and waste, cost of malnutrition, private sector, urbanization, and sustainable development goals.
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
There are a number of indicators and methods available to measure dimensions of food security and diet quality. Data4Diets aims to help program implementers and policymakers in accessing and applying appropriate indicators by providing an online repository of guides, studies, and examples of how indicators have been used to inform diet-related food security policies and programs.
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
Governments and programmers lack the consistent data on affordability that they need to design effective food systems policies and programs for nutrition. Food Prices for Nutrition aims to bridge this gap by developing metrics on price and food cost for application globally. Examples of current indicators include the cost of nutrient adequacy and cost of recommended diet. Recent publications and resources can be found on their website.
Job Posting
USAID Advancing Nutrition is recruiting for a Project Coordinator on the Country Programs Team. The project coordinator will focus on the administrative aspects of the team’s operations, including ensuring the administrative systems are updated routinely, coordinating meetings, supporting staff and consultants on travel assignments, and supporting recruitment of US- and country-based staff. This position is open for applications until July 7.
Job Posting
The objective of this consultancy is to address some of the identified technical gaps in complementary feeding in emergencies programming (CFE) by informing USAID/Bureau for Humanitarian assistance and implementing partners about tools for effective CFE programming and identifying gaps in tools that could be filled through subsequent work.
Overview of consultant activities:
Job Posting
The consultant will support the USAID Advancing Nutrition New Partnerships Initiative (NPI) by providing technical assistance to identified local organizations. The capacity strengthening consultant will collaborate with two organizations in Kakamega County, Kenya, to conduct an organizational capacity assessment (OCA) and lead the development of a capacity strengthening plan for each. The ideal candidate will have: