Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Food unavailability and poor economic situations, limited exposure to nutrition counseling, food restrictions and beliefs, adverse family influence and gender norms, and gaps in knowledge constrain healthy diets. While food-based programs, behavior change communication, and nutrition-sensitive agriculture interventions are promising strategies, impact evaluations show that they face implementation bottlenecks and limited effectiveness when undertaken at-scale in the real world.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Contextual, temporal, and interpretive complexities impact most social and behavior change interventions. These complexity-aware tools include an advocacy brief; a core set of indicators related to collaborating, learning, and adapting; and a checklist to improve consistency and completeness of intervention documentation.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
A human-centered design approach to creating behavior change interventions can help identify users’ motivations, abilities, and opportunities. While time consuming and resource intensive, continuous learning through ideation, prototyping, and iteration provides valuable insights into users’ realities. This paper is available in English and Portuguese.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
A brief informed by gender analyses considers how gender differences may affect nutrition services and programming. A key aspect of the social and behavior change work of USAID Advancing Nutrition includes unpacking and responding to the social and gender norms that influence nutrition. The brief includes a review of staff learning and examples of gender integration across the project.
News and Features
The Nutrition for Growth Summit culminates a year-long initiative to galvanize action for nutrition.
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
This comprehensive nutrition and COVID-19 pandemic analytical framework focuses on the pathways connecting the secondary impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on nutrition outcomes in both children and adults.
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
This peer-reviewed publication describes a study conducted by USAID Advancing Nutrition to identify assessments (methods, tools, and metrics) suitable for evaluating market food environments in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). Findings highlight suitable assessments and recommended adaptations to existing assessments to strengthen market food environment evaluation in LMICs.
Project Leadership
Tina provides leadership for the overall success of USAID Advancing Nutrition's country portfolio.
Job Posting
How to Apply: All interested applicants should submit a resume and cover letter to hr_uganda@advancingnutrition.org. Please include the job title in the subject line of the email.
Deadline: 10th December 2021
Job Posting
Qualified candidates are invited to send their application including their daily rates, and consultancy history via hr_ghana@advancingnutrition.org by December 10, 2021