Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
The Centers of Excellence (CoE) for Breastfeeding model adds value to government-led efforts to scale up essential newborn care and breastfeeding-friendly health services. Engaging champions, providing high-quality technical assistance, and focusing on integrating CoE principles into national health monitoring systems enable implementation and sustainability.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
This report exposes the aggressive marketing practices used by the formula milk industry, highlights the effects on women and families, and outlines opportunities for action.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
The report prevents prevalence data and highlights the need to prioritize inadequate weight gain. It presents current data about monitoring and counseling interventions, discusses the impact of maternal balanced energy and protein supplementation on weight gain, and provides recommendations to strengthen interventions.
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
This brief describes an economic conceptual model of stated hypothetical willingness to pay for nutritional inputs and focus on decision makers’ expected returns to investments in improved nutrition.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Presenters present practical guidance for designing, implementing, and strengthening the delivery of maternal nutrition interventions during pregnancy and lactation, and successes, challenges, and priorities for strengthening interventions at the country level. This is a webinar with accompanying materials.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Children born in the hunger season and with low birth weight are at higher risk of severe acute malnutrition (SAM). Being female and of the Nankam ethno-linguistic group also increased the odds of SAM. A sustainable food supply to pregnant and lactating women through improved agriculture or food system change targeting the hunger season may reduce SAM.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
The most common challenges in countries receiving humanitarian food assistance during disasters and emergencies related to access and monitoring. Research should focus on practical approaches to solve problems and increase the effectiveness of this aid. This article is behind a paywall.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Refugee children from South Sudan had better nutrition status than those in the host country. The Ugandan government should formulate a policy to ensure equal benefits from food relief. This article is behind a paywall.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Excess heat at birth had negative effects on the nutritional status of very young children, while humidity had positive effects on children's mid-upper arm circumference. Explanations include consequences of weather fluctuations on the extent of pasture, cropland, and rain-fed lands planted with rice and other crops, and on mother's age at first marriage. This article is behind a paywall.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
This report synthesizes key findings about acute malnutrition and the immediate, underlying, and basic drivers of it in the arid and semi-arid lands of Kenya. It presents evidence gaps, and lessons for operationalizing efforts to reduce acute malnutrition and drive systemic change.