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Strengthening maternal nutrition programming to support healthy moms and babies.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Little research has been conducted on how leveraging cash transfers with nutrition interventions could impact household economic well-being. This study examined a program in Bangladesh that offered impoverished women transfers of cash and food with and without nutrition behavior change communication. Findings suggest that cash transfers combined with behavior change communications increase not only consumption at the household level, but also household assets through investments.
Event
Adolescence is a critical time in the life cycle, presenting what is sometimes called a "second window of opportunity" in an individual’s growth and development. USAID Advancing Nutrition believes that the international development community must give greater attention to the nutritional status and practices of this age group.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
A cycle-based framework for engaging local partners and systems contributes to sustainable organizational capacity development. The report provides guidance on integrating capacity development into project design as well as examples of good practices, challenges, and tools for every stage in the cycle.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Nutrition International staff describe efforts to support the Government of Bangladesh in its COVID-19 response planning and implementation and discuss revising guidelines for food basket provision and forecasting the impacts of COVID-19 on malnutrition in detail. The director general of the Bangladesh National Nutrition Council discusses nine prioritized mitigation measures. This is a webinar.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Rise Against Hunger staff discuss shifting to a virtual training-of-trainers model in South Sudan due to COVID-19. This is a webinar.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Presenters discuss using mobile phone technology to improve nutrition knowledge and behaviors, delivering e-learning training to frontline nutrition workers, and combating social media misinformation. This is a webinar.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
A responsive complementary feeding and play intervention delivered through home visits benefits children's mental development and the caregiving environment. Mothers with a high school education can deliver behavior change communication if trained and supervised.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
An integrated child development intervention delivered to mother-child groups by trained community health workers improves cognitive, receptive language, and socioemotional development.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Small‐quantity lipid‐based nutrient supplements, given alone or as part of an intervention package, improved infant and child growth in most, but not all, clinical trials reviewed. Supplementation may have greater impact if programs also address underlying factors that contribute to growth faltering.