Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Nutrition-sensitive agriculture programs enhance self-reliance in communities and integrating behavior change activities increases the effect of agricultural interventions on nutrition outcomes. Though outcomes and influencing factors are context-dependent, lessons could inform the design and implementation of effective behavior change strategies.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
It is important to identify and understand motivations of people who influence infant feeding and care practices as well as factors that facilitate and prevent exclusive breastfeeding when designing interventions. Social and behavior change interventions grounded in this understanding are critical to tailor responses that are respectful, genuine, and acceptable to the families and communities. Increasing health workers’ knowledge, skills, and motivation and identifying ways to overcome challenges are also key strategies.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
This guide supports implementing partners involved in conducting evaluations of social and behavior change activities to improve multi-sectoral nutrition outcomes.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
This document provides practical guidance to apply social and behavioral change principles and approaches to strategize, design, diagnose, and define activities.
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
This manual presents the steps to carry out the technical supervision and inspection in wheat mills, as well as inspection visits at any retail store selling fortified foods. It was prepared based on a number of monitoring fortified food manuals developed by government and technical assistance providers.
Project Leadership
Dr. Kavita Sethuraman has more than 20 years of experience working on maternal and child health and nutrition (MCHN), food security, and gender in community‐based nutrition programs, policy‐level analysis, program design and management, technical assistance, nutrition advocacy and capacity building in sub‐Saharan Africa, Asia and the South Pacific. She led the Food and Nutrition Technical Assistance (FANTA‐III) project’s MCHN team at FHI 360.
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
This two-page fact sheet describes USAID Advancing Nutrition's support advancing the Government of Ghana’s efforts to improve district planning for the equitable delivery of services that promote household resilience and early childhood growth and development. The project works in 17 districts in four regions: Northern, Upper East, Upper West, and North East.
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
Social and behavior change (SBC) is an effective tool for improving nutrition programs and outcomes across a range of sectors from agriculture to markets to health systems. This guide supports USAID staff who are involved in planning an evaluation, identifying evaluation objectives, and building an evaluation scope of work for an activity that uses SBC to improve multi-sectoral nutrition outcomes. It is not important for users to have a background in SBC, but they should be familiar with evaluation more broadly.
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
This brief present results from a cost-efficiency study of a pilot program of micronutrient powder distribution in Namutumba District in Uganda. This brief discusses costing studies for nutrition interventions generally, and highlights how a cost-efficiency study can influence policy decisions.
Job Posting
USAID Advancing Nutrition is seeking a consultant to provide input, review, and feedback to support the development of materials for a facility-based mentorship program for Kenya. The mentorship program will include building competencies in lactation management and skilled breastfeeding counseling, as well as mentorship, focusing on three priority contract points for achieving early initiation and exclusive breastfeeding.