Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
African Leaders for Nutrition proposes securing investments for a comprehensive nutrition action plan, identifying cost-effective interventions that can be quickly and easily delivered, and encouraging Africa’s leaders to show accountability as they work to end hunger. The Continental Nutrition Accountability Scorecard can frame and track implementation of these priority efforts.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
The Breastmilk Ecology: Genesis of Infant Nutrition (BEGIN) project analyzes human milk by exploring it as a complex biological system and examining its interactions with its internal (parental biology) and external (infant interactions) environments. This webinar presents findings of the BEGIN project and discusses its implications moving forward. This is a webinar with accompanying materials.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Changes in the estimated disease burdens due to vitamin A and zinc deficiencies from 2017 to 2019 are primarily due to changes in analytical methods employed in the Global Burden of Disease studies; as a result, they may not represent true changes in disease burden.
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
This journal article evaluates the effects on child development of home fortification with lipid-based nutrient supplements for mothers and/or children or micronutrient powder for children. Prenatal lipid-based nutrient supplements, postnatal lipid-based nutrient supplements, or both, or postnatal micronutrient powder had a positive effect on motor and language development in Bangladeshi children.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Progress on anemia in women ages 15–49 years is insufficient to meet World Health Assembly global nutrition targets. The prevalence of anemia in children also remains high. Better understanding of context-specific causes of anemia and high-quality implementation of effective multi-sectoral actions to mitigate these causes are critical.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Nutrition modeling tools (NMTs) have wide-ranging influence across policy and program cycles and contexts, but the impact depends on the tool application process, accompanying advocacy, and the expertise, capabilities, and resources of local teams. Understanding how practitioners have used NMTs successfully could help potential end users understand the policy questions these tools can answer and make a case for allocating resources for such analyses.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Results provide empirical guidance on effective sample sizes for qualitative research, which can be used in conjunction with characteristics of individual studies to estimate an appropriate sample size.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Articles focus on wasting and stunting risk factors among internally displaced people, understanding sex differences in childhood malnutrition, scaling child wasting prevention and treatment in the context of stunting prevention, nutrition impact and positive practices, and promoting linear growth when treating child wasting, among others.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
This report summarizes strengths and limitations of relying on stunting as an indicator of project impact.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
This review recommends diverse strategies and delivery mechanisms, including health education, supplementation, community participation, and robust health system responses to achieve effective maternal nutrition programs.