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Applying nutrition-sensitive agriculture continues to challenge development practitioners all over the world. USAID Advancing Nutrition recently finalized the Nutrition-Sensitive Agriculture Design Guide—a facilitator’s guide with accompanying slides and handouts for a 3-day workshop for newly awarded USAID-funded agriculture projects.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
This interagency effort works to strengthen the impact of diverse nutrition investments across the government through better communication and collaboration and by linking research to program implementation.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Speakers from multiple sectors discuss the latest thinking, research, and experiences on designing and launching mechanisms to diversify nutrition funding. This is a webinar.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
The summit focused on women’s rights to health and nutrition and new and transformative thinking, investments, and actions to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals on nutrition and gender equality. This is a webinar. The recording is available in English, French, and Spanish.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Speakers discuss multi-sectoral interventions, the role of institutional strengthening to address undernutrition at national and subnational levels, how nutrition interventions can better support social norms and behavior change, and how development agencies and partner governments can use these lessons to improve nutrition programming. This is a webinar. It is available in English and French.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Increased investments to offset the consequences of COVID-19, expand social safety nets, and protect access to nutrition services, nutritious foods, and vitamin and mineral supplementation are critical. USAID’s Shawn Baker discusses the importance of closing financing gaps for private-sector engagement in the nutrition sector, and both stabilizing and reforming food systems for nutrition. This is a podcast.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Results suggest that household consumption and expenditure surveys data can be used in Optifood analyses of dietary patterns and micronutrient gaps for 12- to 23-month-old children in place of individual-level 24-hour recalls. Further analyses are required for different age groups and locations.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Binary representation of cisgender female and male populations perpetuates marginalization and discrimination of transgender and gender-nonconforming people and limits the ability to serve the needs of all. Authors call for a shift to using multinomial gender-disaggregation, particularly for surveyors, researchers, program implementers, policy makers, and gender rights advocates.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Using a remote data quality assessment approach facilitates routine monitoring in emergency settings or when travel is not possible. Remote approaches also protect the health and safety of service providers, government staff, data collectors, and supervisors.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
This evaluation assesses the contributions of the World Bank to improving nutrition determinants and outcomes for children. Findings support adjusting programming to prioritize strengthening stakeholder engagement, coordination, and services for nutrition; increase focus on subnational targeting of interventions to prioritize areas of greatest disadvantage and persistency of need; rebalance investments to emphasize nutrition-specific interventions; and increase focus on social norms interventions and behavior change.