Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Child diet and mother–child interactions improved children's cognitive, language, and motor development and had indirect effects on socio-emotional development. Leveraging these interactions may improve intervention effects on child outcomes.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Most children are not receiving minimally adequate nurturing care. Further investments in indicator measurement and resources for preschool-age children are important, particularly for low-income populations and in the domains of responsive caregiving, early learning, safety, and security. This article is behind a paywall.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Fathers' support of mothers and greater participation in shared household decision-making is positively associated with children's outcomes.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
As more programs promote early child development, this paper presents a unified analytical framework for assessing impact and highlights the range of costs and cost-effectiveness of currently available intervention strategies.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Sessions focus on nurturing care for early childhood development, the importance of supporting caregivers of adolescents and children with disabilities, promoting caregiver and children’s mental health, and preventing child maltreatment. Speakers discuss scale-up, advocacy, financing, innovation issues, and working through different types of programs. Materials are available in English, French, and Portuguese.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Evidence supports a holistic agenda for child health spanning sexual, reproductive, maternal, childhood, and adolescent health; nutrition; and development. This series shows the importance of greater integration and implementation of evidence-based interventions across health, education, and social systems, as well as breaking down sectoral siloes.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Further farm-level diversification is not a suitable general strategy to improve child and adolescent nutrition, but it may be useful in some contexts. Livestock production shows some promise for improving child and adolescent nutrition.
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
This toolkit supports governments in their efforts to ensure sustainable vitamin A supplementation and de-worming program delivery mechanisms. It includes a collection of tools on child anemia reduction, maternal anemia reduction, and food fortification.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Priorities to enhance the success of nutrition-sensitive agriculture programs in reducing undernutrition include ensuring appropriateness and acceptability based on context knowledge; strengthening local structures and community empowerment; increasing resilience; and ensuring project flexibility, supportive policy, and governance.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
In observed areas of rural Ethiopia, where women experienced high seasonal variation in their diets and energy intakes, their dietary diversity was low. This could be partly offset by adopting irrigation practices.