Adolescent Nutrition Resource Bank
This training plan is intended to prepare teachers to educate school-aged children on nutrition, diet and food security. The guide includes educational strategies and activities for interactive learning and the improvement of students' nutrition-related knowledge, attitudes and behaviors.
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
This one-page fact sheet describes USAID Advancing Nutrition's support to the government of Burkina Faso as it works to reduce micronutrient deficiencies and the prevalence of undernutrition in children under 5 years of age.
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
This poster was presented at the virtual American Society for Nutrition Nutrition 2021 conference. Conducting nutrition surveys by phone presents opportunities and challenges. Learning from this experience can improve the use of this approach in the future.
Event
To commemorate World Breastfeeding Week 2021, USAID country programs shared their experiences with protecting and promoting breastfeeding around the world.
News and Features
Breastfeeding has one of the highest returns on investment of any development activity, yielding $35 in economic gains for every $1 spent on breastfeeding interventions.
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
Bureau for Humanitarian Assistance implementing partners (IP) use U.S. Agency for International Development guidance, existing tools, and technical and programmatic considerations to make activity design decisions and select between cash, voucher, and in-kind modalities to support activities. USAID Advancing Nutrition explored the experience of IPs in selecting between these programming modalities and reviewed a selection of evidence from a variety of sources to derive insights of relevance to development, rapid-onset, and protracted emergency settings.
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
For more than 40 years, the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) has promoted breastfeeding to save lives, prevent malnutrition, and enhance the long-term health and prosperity of women and children. By promoting breastfeeding in programs and policies, USAID is helping families chart productive and prosperous for their children and supporting communities to thrive.
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
The program review is a qualitative assessment that examines the relevance, uniqueness, consistency, and feasibility of the Nutritious Food Financing Facility (N3F) theory of change (TOC) and plans to achieve it via the selected mechanism (N3F). The aim is to understand the extent to which N3F is likely to establish, improve, and sustain an effective approach for increasing investment in, and supply of, nutritious foods for low- and middle-income consumers, and with what consequences for the nutritional status of vulnerable populations.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Lactation training for health professionals is a promising approach to increase and protect breastfeeding but it requires research on its efficacy.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
This module helps trainers design and deliver gender-responsive extension and advisory services for agriculture programs. Some tools can be adapted for breastfeeding interventions.