Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
While consumers are targeted for interventions to address knowledge gaps about food safety and behaviors that can reduce risk, there are no comprehensive analyses of these interventions. It is critical to understand how interventions could be expanded to include relationships between consumers and other actors in the food system, as well as how targeted communication strategies could affect behavior. Focusing on risk perception and strategies that leverage emotion and trusted sources may be useful.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
This research surveyed health professionals to document their experiences engaging family members in nutrition activities, their perceived barriers and facilitators, and their recommendations. Such research fills gaps in peer-reviewed literature to strengthen intervention design and implementation. Community ownership and sustainability emerged as key benefits of family engagement; responses also highlighted potential unintended consequences.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Household gender roles influence infant and young child feeding behaviors and may contribute to suboptimal complementary feeding practices through inequitable household decision making, intra-household food allocation, and limited paternal support for resources and caregiving, especially in rural areas. Findings point to the need for more context-specific approaches that address gender normative roles.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
This guide is for program planners and implementers developing norms-responsive activities within nutrition-sensitive or nutrition-specific programming. It includes tips and tools to improve program outcomes by understanding and responding to social norms and incorporates background on how to identify norms and monitor and measure change.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Marketing of unhealthy foods remains pervasive. This review adds evidence and perspectives on contemporary marketing. Authors provide evidence that supports action to restrict marketing to which children are exposed.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
This report presents stories from top practitioners in social and behavior change media to help guide more effective SBC media productions and implement more sustainable programs. Themes emerged about the effectiveness of human connection and storytelling. Practitioners should consider distribution at the outset through connection with local groups, associations, and leaders who help spread the word.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Aggressive marketing practices used by the formula milk industry impact families’ decisions about how to feed their babies and young children. The webinar launching the report is available in Arabic, English, French, Portuguese, Russian, and Spanish.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Experts discuss the current state of social norms measurement, contributions, promising approaches, and future priorities from a range of perspectives. This is a webinar.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
The global nutrition community saw the COVID-19 pandemic as a rallying call and galvanized support to prevent backsliding and improve nutrition around the world. In its third year of implementation, USAID Advancing Nutrition, worked at the global level and in 12 countries to strengthen nutrition-specific and nutrition-sensitive policies, programs, interventions, and systems to support and inform USAID’s strategic priorities.
Activity
USAID Advancing Nutrition will conduct a study to explore how youth are engaged in food systems to guide future opportunities to improve nutrition.