Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Researchers evaluated the comparative performance of the Global Diet Quality Score (GDQS) against other diet metrics to capture nutrient adequacy and undernutrition. The GDQS performed comparably with the Minimum Dietary Diversity–Women indicator in capturing adequacy outcomes. Given limited data on noncommunicable disease (NCD) outcomes and the cross-sectional study design, prospective studies should assess GDQS performance in capturing NCD outcomes.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
The Diet Quality Questionnaire captures dietary adequacy and dietary risk factors for noncommunicable diseases and enables monitoring of trends and comparisons across demographics. The Global Diet Quality Project enables the collection of comparable population-level dietary data within and across countries.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Food systems approaches such as True Cost and Value Accounting provide holistic assessments of the consequences and benefits of different food and nutrition interventions and evidence to improve nutrition strategies and policies. This webinar was a Nutrition for Growth Summit Side Event.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
USAID Advancing Nutrition speakers provide an overview of the Community of Practice and its goals, discuss how it is using the Nutrition-Sensitive Agriculture Design Guide to facilitate workshops targeting agriculture and economic growth activities that have a nutrition objective, and explain how others can join. This is a webinar.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Speakers discuss the multi-sectoral requirements to keep food safe, with a focus on the informal markets where consumers source their diets. They discuss specific causal pathways in health and physiology, consumer behavior, supply chains and markets, and policy and regulation domains through which food safety and nutrition are linked. The linkages illustrate the direct ways in which food safety and foodborne diseases may affect nutrition outcomes and vice versa. This webinar was a Nutrition for Growth Summit Side Event.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
While large-scale food fortification has a record of nearly eliminating debilitating vitamin and mineral deficiencies, it is underused in ending preventable diseases and death. Speakers discuss new efforts to accelerate progress and catalyze momentum and proof-of-impact through targeted investment and political leadership. This is a webinar.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Increasing numbers of Africans experience hunger and suffer widespread micronutrient deficiencies; overweight and obesity are significant public health concerns as well. A common vision, strong political leadership, and effective cross-sectoral collaboration, are essential to identify and implement sustainable solutions that transform agrifood systems to deliver healthy, affordable diets. This report is available in English and French.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
The “best-fit” framework focuses on extension service characteristics that affect performance, including governance structures and funding, organizational and management capacities and cultures, methods, and community engagement. All of these are affected by the policy environment, agroecological conditions, and farming-system heterogeneity. To improve extension performance, outcomes, and impacts, new and innovative interventions can be applied and adapted within this set of extension characteristics.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
USAID and its partners work with countries to provide people with skills, tools, and resources to improve their families’ health, diets, and nutrition, especially early in life. This is a video.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Women and girls have unique nutritional requirements throughout the life cycle, especially during adolescence, before and during pregnancy, and while breastfeeding. USAID investments seek to protect nutrition throughout the life cycle to ensure that all women and children are well-nourished and can live healthy and productive lives. This is a video.