USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
This report summarizes the findings of the Rang-Din Nutrition Study evaluation of participant adherence among pregnant and lactating women. Researchers evaluated several aspects of a program to distribute supplements to pregnant and lactating women. They assessed adherence to iron-folic aid and the formulation of lipid-based nutrient supplements being distributed at the time of the interview to determine whether the type of supplement affects adherence and whether adherence to lipid-based nutrients is sustained through 6 months postpartum.
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
Ghana has made strong political commitments to improve children’s development, though 45 percent of children in the country are at risk of not meeting their developmental potential due to stunting or extreme poverty. USAID Advancing Nutrition conducted a complementary study to fill this gap by collecting service-level data through interviews and observation across three USAID-supported regions in Ghana.
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
Food systems are the backbone of global diets. This tool provides an illustrative list of evidence-based nutrition-sensitive behaviors to spark ideas and discussion among activity designers and implementers. While this list can be used as a standalone resource, it also serves as a companion piece to USAID’s Designing Effective Nutrition-Sensitive Agriculture Activities Guide. This illustrative list can help to identify nutrition-sensitive behaviors across the food system and food system actors to support an activity’s nutrition outcomes.
Caregiver Resources Measures
Gender attitudes refers to views held by individuals regarding the roles that men and women and boys and girls should play in society.
Caregiver Resources Measures
To measure attitudes toward gender norms in intimate relationships or differing social expectations for men and women through two subscales: equitable and inequitable norms.
Caregiver Resources Measures
The Demographic Health Survey (DHS) includes a module on women’s empowerment. DHS are nationally-representative household surveys that provide data on population, health, and nutrition.
Supporting caregivers to improve child nutrition
Many child health, nutrition, and development efforts focus on caregivers, those persons responsible for providing nurturing care to infants and young children. To make positive changes in nutrition, caregivers need to draw on resources linked to their own physical and psychological well-being and sense of self.
Alternative terms for these resources that have been used in the literature are: "resources for care" (Engle, Menon and Haddad 1999; Basnet et al. 2020), "caregiver capabilities" (Zongrone et al. 2018), "maternal capabilities" (Matare et al.
Many child health, nutrition, and development efforts focus on caregivers, those persons responsible for the provision of nurturing care to infants and young children. To make positive changes in nutrition, caregivers need to draw on resources linked to their own physical and psychological well-being and sense of self. For this toolkit, these resources are defined and measured as individual-level factors but also reflect household, community, and societal contexts and can be used to inform population-level program design and evaluations.
The effectiveness of child nutrition interventions greatly depends on a caregiver’s resources. By measuring Caregiver Resources, programs or studies can design and implement activities with greater impact. Effectively designing programs and improving their impact depends on research and monitoring and evaluation evidence.