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Anemia is caused by multiple factors—such as, iron and other nutrient deficiencies, malaria, helminths, inflammation, infections, and genetic blood disorders. Preventing and controlling anemia require an understanding of the causes of anemia in a given setting and developing integrated programs to address these underlying causes.
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
USAID Advancing Nutrition conducted a learning activity with a USAID- funded project in India: Scaling Innovative, Nutrition-Sensitive Fisheries Technologies and Integrated Approaches through Partnerships in Odisha, India. We aimed to capture insights from the project’s experiences partnering to improve food security and nutrition outcomes in Odisha State. This brief summarizes lessons learned and challenges related to its collaboration with government and local actors to help USAID and other implementing partners understand what facilitated this project’s success.
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
The purpose of this systematic review was to determine barriers to exclusive breastfeeding in 25 low- and middle-income countries and discuss implications for programs. Sixteen barriers identified including delivery methods, counseling and support, and knowledge.
News and Features
USAID’s 40+ year effort to promote and protect breastfeeding has reached families, communities, health systems, governments, and development partners around the world.
Monitoring and Evaluation Online Course Repository
This course provides a better understanding of different measures of impact that could be used in the evaluation of a program in the areas of maternal and child health and nutrition. For each of the measures presented, the course will discuss current sources of data you might draw on as well as describe the methods that can be used to measure these, including identifying the strengths and weakness of the methods as well as their suitably for use in an evaluation.
Monitoring and Evaluation Online Course Repository
This course provides an introduction to evaluating public health programs at scale. This course focuses on evaluating public health programs and policies in low- and middle-income countries, however, core skills of designing and carrying out an evaluation are applicable to any public health programs and policies.
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
This brief summarizes guidance for planning, tracking, and assessing costs of multi-sectoral nutrition activities. It highlights resources USAID Missions and implementing partners may find useful for conceptualizing costing and presents resources providing detailed guidance on key phases.
News and Features
A national learning event took place in Accra, Ghana, to improve coordination of food and nutrition security interventions in the country.
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
This nutrition brief summarizes findings from a review led by the Maternal and Child Survival Program identifying key barriers that impede exclusive breastfeeding during the first six months of life. The brief presents Demographic and Health Survey analyses of three key breastfeeding problems and a compilation of country policies that address exclusive breastfeeding. It also provides key considerations for implementers of infant and young child feeding programs and policies in low- and middle-income countries.
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
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.