Job Posting
Location: Arlington, VA
Position Category: Direct hire, paid in US
Posting Date: 03/22/2022
Deadline Date: 04/11/2022
Starting Date: 05/09/2022
Event
In this webinar, speakers from both Breakthrough ACTION and USAID Advancing Nutrition shared insights from a behavioral design process completed in South Kivu, Democratic Republic of the Congo.
News and Features
The task of reducing undernutrition worldwide requires a wide array of program approaches. New resources summarize strengths and limitations of relying on stunting as an indicator of project impact.
News and Features
The Ministry of Health, on behalf of the Government of Uganda, introduced USAID Advancing Nutrition to diverse stakeholders at a food fortification meeting in Kampala.
News and Features
The USAID Advancing Nutrition project in Nigeria will focus on improving nutrition interventions and programming in the Kebbi, Sokoto, and Bauchi states.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Revised milestones and checklists can support developmental surveillance, clinical judgment for additional developmental screening, and research in developmental surveillance processes. Researchers identified gaps in developmental data, particularly for social-emotional and cognitive milestones.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Nurturing care encompasses good health, adequate nutrition, opportunities for early learning, responsive caregiving, and safety and security, but there is insufficient focus on measuring the last three. Additional research is important to establish optimal measures and indicators for assessing nurturing care, especially for early learning and responsive caregiving.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
The Responsive Care and Early Learning Addendum package includes illustrated counseling cards; training materials; and a guide for planning, adaptation, and implementation. It is designed for use in both individual and group counseling sessions.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Recommendations focus on improving the quality of essential, routine postnatal care for women and newborns receiving facility- or community-based care in any resource setting. This report includes accompanying materials.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Bundled interventions produced greater benefits for child development, child diets, nutrition and parenting practices, and household gender equality than nutrition-only interventions. Engaging couples benefited child diets, maternal and paternal care practices, household gender equality, and women’s empowerment more than interventions for mothers only. This is a webinar with accompanying materials.