Project Leadership
Hadiza Joy Marcus has more than 13 years of experience in technical and management positions for international development health programs, at both national and sub-national levels. She brings the experience of an excellent relationship builder with proficient management skills; and has a proven record of accomplishment in developing strong partnerships with stakeholders as well as great leadership skills.
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
Women and girls have unique nutritional requirements throughout the life cycle—especially during adolescence, before and during pregnancy, and while breastfeeding.
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
Good nutrition is critical to achieving global development goals.
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
Improving dietary quality requires changes across food and agriculture systems to improve access to affordable nutritious foods, especially for women and young children. Local, national, and global leaders need reliable data to inform policies that strengthen the food systems families depend on. This study explores how household consumption and expenditure surveys could be used to identify nutrient gaps and provide policy-makers with reliable data that support food-based recommendations for children 12-23 months old.
Monitoring and Evaluation Online Course Repository
This DHS Nutrition Indicators course is designed to orient national stakeholders such as professionals from ministries of health, civil society, and multilaterals to the nutrition indicators reported in The DHS Program surveys and how to interpret them. Both generalists and technical staff who work in nutrition, as well as policy makers and program managers, will benefit from this course.
Job Posting
The Project Officer sits on the Country Programs Team (CPT) and is responsible for providing backstop, coordination, and operational support to country teams in designated countries. They will work under the direction of the Senior Country Program Manager and Director of Country Programs to provide day-to-day backstopping support to 4 assigned countries within the country portfolio (the portfolio consists of the following country programs: Mozambique, Kyrgyz Republic, Tanzania, Ghana, Kenya, Niger, Burkina Faso, Uganda, Honduras, Nigeria, and East Africa).
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
Cet outil aide les planificateurs et les exécutants de programmes de nutrition à améliorer la qualité à chaque étape de nutrition multisectorielle et changement social et comportemental, de la conception à la livraison, le monitorage, et l’adaptation.
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
This one-page fact sheet describes USAID Advancing Nutrition's support to the government of Niger as it works to reduce malnutrition and micronutrient deficiencies by addressing the prevalence of anemia among women of reproductive age (WRA) and adolescents, as well as vitamin A deficiency among children under 5. A version of this document is available in French.
News and Features
Well-supported educators and accessible teaching materials are essential to a quality education for grade-school children. USAID Advancing Nutrition partnered with USAID's Okuu Keremet! to develop more than 20 new books, responding to the need for nutrition-related teaching materials for children in the Kyrgyz Republic. Okuu Keremet! (Learning is Awesome!) is a five-year project focused on improving the quality of reading and math education among 300,000 school students in all Oblasts of the Kyrgyz Republic.
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
The strategic agenda is a blueprint for creating social and behavior change communication programs that contribute to the widespread social and individual behavior changes needed to meet broad nutrition commitments.