Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Involving adolescents in designing programs and efforts to inform policy allows them to make decisions about their own well-being and ensures the applicability of results in communities. This guidance includes a list of participatory nutrition research methods and pretesting resources.
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
This brief summarizes a review of literature on community breastfeeding support programs to inform the creation and implementation of similar programs. It contains large amounts of information on types of interventions, program designs, and program impacts. The review makes several general recommendations for programs. First, it includes recommended models that have historically been successful. Second, it recommends strengthening specific aspects of extant programs whenever possible. Third, it recommends supporting community action through the whole health system.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Developing international targets and goals and systematically tracking nutrition and mortality data are critical to assess the burden of malnutrition, monitor trends, prioritize interventions, advocate with governments, and assess programming efficacy. Articles stress the importance of schools as a critical delivery platform for health and nutrition interventions, urge greater efforts to serve out-of-school youth, and advocate for youth involvement in designing and implementing programs and projects to overcome their challenges.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Growth monitoring and promotion (GMP) is a common platform for delivering child health and nutrition services. This report highlights findings, challenges, good practices, and innovations that stakeholders can use to foster healthy child growth and development. In particular, empowering families and communities, supporting health workers, and monitoring data could increase the potential of GMP to prevent malnutrition.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Integrating Early Detection and Treatment of Child Wasting into Routine Primary Health Care Services
Rapidly scaling wasting services and achieving the wasting Sustainable Development Goals target requires integrating wasting treatment into primary health care services. This guide offers a process for governments to identify actions to integrate wasting program goals within routine primary healthcare services and includes resources to help national decision makers develop integration plans.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Adolescents have been neglected in national and global nutrition plans and policies. This series highlights the effect of nutrition on adolescent growth and development, the role of the food environment on food choices, and strategies and interventions that may lead to healthy nutrition and growth.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
This guide provides recommendations to add and strengthen maternal nutrition components in programs or services delivered by the health system, including actions to strengthen the overall health system and enabling environment. It includes a program planning process and additional information on collecting and synthesizing data.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Evidence demonstrates the effects of crises on nutritional status, diet intake, anthropometric failure, and long-term child development, but shows that crisis-related interventions improve nutrition-related knowledge and practices. Further studies should focus on the sustainability of interventions and the success of existing guidelines and should extend the age range from three to five years.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Multiple-micronutrient (MMN) supplementation reduces low birth weight, preterm birth, and small-for-gestational-age births when compared with iron and folic acid supplementation. Antenatal care policies should prioritize MMN supplementation over iron-folic acid supplementation for all pregnant women, especially adolescents.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
This investment will give governments and communities skills and resources to improve health, diets, and nutrition by supporting communities in crisis with emergency food and nutrition assistance. Greater investment will also help build resilient health systems and sustainable food systems to overcome setbacks posed by the pandemic, the global climate crisis, and recurring conflict.