Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
This correspondence is a response to S.V. Subramanian and colleagues’ comment in The Lancet on using stunting to monitor nutrition programs. Adjusting for maternal stature in stunting calculations underestimates the contribution of current deficient conditions to a child's stature and is unethical because it will disincentivize commitments to improve living conditions globally.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Presenters share new global guidance on indicators, their experience with developing and using updated guidelines, pilot results from using these indicators, and country-specific adaptations of questions. This is a webinar.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Speakers present an e-learning course on nutrition indicators. They share country-specific experiences using population-based survey data for policy, program design, and implementation purposes. This is a webinar.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Implementation science frameworks help identify key drivers for the scale- up of breastfeeding protection, promotion, and support policies and programs. Advocacy, multi-sectoral political will, financing, monitoring and evaluation, and coordination are key for enabling environments, as is improving maternity protection and tightening regulation and enforcement of the Code of Marketing of Breast-Milk Substitutes.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Strategic use of data can contextualize nutrition guidelines, protocols, capacity strengthening, and supervision approaches and improve micronutrient supply chains and record-keeping and strengthen health services. Engaging family and community members to support pregnant women and improving women’s knowledge and self-confidence are important elements of country programs working to improve maternal and newborn health and nutrition.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
The guide provides practical guidance for policymakers, program managers, health practitioners, and other actors working to establish and implement quality of care programs for maternal, newborn, and child health.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
The app provides frontline health workers with real-time support to problem-solve, get answers to questions, and participate in trainings. The platform collects feedback on service quality and provides anonymous feedback about supervision. The app collates and analyzes data, which helps government officials monitor program quality and identify performance gaps.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
The tool uses existing data to estimate the value of breastmilk. The accompanying webinar and brief advocate for developing paid maternity leave and workplace policies that support breastfeeding, ending exploitative marketing of commercial formula milk, and improving access to skilled counseling.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Speakers share policy, programmatic, and operational learnings from integrating community-based management of acute malnutrition with integrated community case management. This is a webinar and slide deck presentation.
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
This handbook describes and presents guidelines for the manufacture and handling of three supplementary food products for vulnerable populations in Zambia, or for production in Zambia and distribution to countries in the region with similar vulnerable populations.