Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
The INDDEX Project helps low- and middle-income countries increase acquisition and use of high quality, timely food consumption data to improve agriculture, food security, and nutrition outcomes. This virtual platform provides links to several webinars, journal articles, technical reports, and discussion papers related to the project’s dietary assessment tools.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Having an additional non-maternal adult female household member is significantly associated with higher height-for-age and weight-for-age z-scores and reduces the likelihood of severe stunting.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Exclusive breastfeeding (EBF), early initiation of breastfeeding (EIBF), and minimum dietary diversity (MDD) predicted wasting. Stunting predictors included EBF, minimum meal frequency, and MDD, while underweight predictors included EBF, EIBF, and MDD. Practitioners can explain the probability of malnutrition in relation to various feeding practices to mothers and health workers using a decision tree approach.
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
These materials can be used by health service providers, households, and communities as reference materials and learning aids for improved understanding and knowledge of complementary feeding. The training also emphasizes best practices around water, sanitation, and hygiene in addition to food safety during the processing and preparation of food.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
There is a correlation between maternal depression and child dietary diversity, but growth and development of children of depressed mothers who are depressed did not differ from that of children of mothers who are not depressed.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
This e-learning course provides program planners and implementers with guidance and tools to improve the quality of maternal micronutrient supplementation programs delivered in antenatal care and postnatal care settings.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Information gaps about drivers and determinants of the triple burden of malnutrition, evidence-based interventions, and effective delivery platforms to reach the most vulnerable adolescents remain. Articles focus on the role of mother’s education, knowledge gaps in the etiology of anemia, the relationship between micronutrient-rich foods and anemia, factors influencing overweight and obesity, and the association of body image perception with dietary and physical activity behaviors.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Speakers discuss how the WHO Quality Health Services planning guide can support staff at the district and facility levels to improve the quality of health services. This is a webinar.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
The IYCFEHub curates resources focused on infant and young child nutrition in emergencies and humanitarian contexts.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Collaborating organizations have developed tools and approaches to improve emergency preparedness and support health systems to respond to increased demands resulting from seasonal and unforeseen shocks and stresses. Speakers shared three tools designed to deliver nutrition services more effectively in such contexts. This is a webinar.