Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Coordinated anticipatory action and rapid response must be multi-sectoral and based on early data sharing, joint analyses, and agreed priorities. Funders should ensure needs-based, predictable, timely, and coherent funding to implement joint plans in targeted areas, while national authorities should invest in a strategic multi-sectoral agenda to build resilience and strengthen early warning and early action systems.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
These tools and approaches improve emergency preparedness and support health systems to respond to increased demands resulting from seasonal and unforeseen shocks and stresses. This is a webinar.
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
This job aid, developed for village volunteers, includes information on a variety of nutrition practices for mothers and young children. It provides messaging about the importance of antenatal care, proper nutrition during pregnancy and while breastfeeding, postpartum care and newborn contact, and young child health and nutrition. The job aid includes several useful visual aids to inform mothers and children.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
The survey-based women's empowerment index assessed social autonomy, decision-making, and attitudes to violence and was a stronger predictor of the change in minimum dietary diversity than wealth, child age, and urban residence. Women’s empowerment should be integrated into nutrition interventions.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
This workbook highlights challenges and examples specific to social and behavior change (SBC) for improving complementary feeding. The basic concepts of high-quality SBC design, implementation, monitoring and evaluation, and learning can also be used to improve other nutrition behaviors.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Finding ways to turn desired practices or behaviors into games with achievable outcomes, providing milestones to indicate progress, recognizing success, giving participants autonomy, and making sure they feel a strong connection to the broader mission can leverage motivation and induce behavior change.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
A facilitated process helps implementing partners identify social and behavior change competencies of core staff and plan to strengthen and develop skills.
Job Posting
The consultant will support and provide technical expertise and input, specifically on cash and voucher assistance (CVA), by:
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Over the past three years, USAID Advancing Nutrition has supported nutrition-specific and nutrition-sensitive policies, programs, interventions, and systems to realize our vision of a world where countries, communities, and families are well nourished, resilient, and able to thrive.
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USAID Advancing Nutrition received New Partnerships Initiative (NPI) funding to provide grants and support to four organizations in Burkina Faso and Kenya working to improve maternal and child nutrition.