Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
The Local Engagement Assessment Framework (LEAF) is a planning and assessment tool to determine the level of ownership by national and community actors at every level of a project. It helps users determine who should be engaged and how, and provides standardized language about ownership to adapt in different contexts. The checklist helps USAID and partners think about what locally led development means in practice throughout the program cycle and across different technical sectors. This is a webinar.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Integrated developmental monitoring requires continued efforts and engagement on the part of both the health care provider and the families. Findings suggest that developmental monitoring with support for families is acceptable to families and trainees and that the intervention demonstrates operational feasibility.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
There are several methodological challenges to building a population-based approach to monitoring nurturing care environments. Authors recommend prioritizing valid approaches based on reliable indicators, ensuring flexibility for different contexts and governance levels, creating a robust equity approach, prioritizing disaggregated data, and ensuring that monitoring systems are user-friendly.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Most countries are moving toward home-based management of uncomplicated severe acute malnutrition (SAM) among children. Strengthening the support of sensory and psychosocial stimulation and structured play in facility and community-based care of SAM children will help them to survive and thrive.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Authors describe the nature and scope of existing early childhood development (ECD) evidence related to nurturing care components for young children, including health, nutrition, child protection, opportunities for learning, and responsive caregiving. The Early Childhood Development Action Network is launching a COVID-19 and ECD Research Hub to consolidate original research on the pandemic’s effect on young children and families.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
When absent from official statistics, children and adults with disabilities remain politically and socially invisible, which increases marginalization and potential rights violations. This report discusses nutrition and health, access to water and sanitation, protection from violence and exploitation, and education indicators and includes the first-ever global and regional estimates of children with disabilities.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
These global standards support early child education and care providers to provide healthy foods and beverages and ensure young children are physically active, avoid excess sedentary time, and get enough sleep in childcare and education settings.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
The thematic brief introduced outlines the five components of nurturing care and presents practical actions to strengthen nurturing environments for newborns, including those who are born early, small, or ill. It is critical to invest in policies, health systems, and community awareness to provide developmentally supportive care. This is a webinar.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Malnutrition and foodborne disease are interrelated in terms of physiology, human behavior, and policy and have large public health and economic costs. While these two issues are often addressed separately in policy, programs, and research, a more integrated approach to address them within the food system is needed.
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
This Microsoft Excel-based tool allows you to present information on the anemia situation in your country in a format that can be shared with stakeholders.