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Throughout the life cycle, women have unique nutritional needs, particularly during adolescence, pregnancy, and lactation. Improving women’s nutrition during these periods has multiple benefits for maternal health and wellbeing, newborn and young child survival, health and nutrition, all producing positive effects on the next generations.
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
In 2004 the Government of Nepal launched the Intensification of Maternal and Neonatal Micronutrient Program, more commonly called the Iron Intensification Project, in five districts. This case study describes the development of the project, its design, the process used to implement it at the district level, the strategy used to scale it up, and the data available to describe coverage. The reduction in maternal anemia in the country between 1998 and 2006 is also described.
The Feeding and Disability Resource Bank is a repository of materials that help nutrition and disability program managers, government leaders, and donor agency staff design and implement effective nutrition programs for children with disabilities.
This page provides an overview of the terminology and the relevant human rights treaties related to children with disabilities and feeding.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
To ensure health workers have the knowledge, skills, and confidence to deliver nutrition services and accurate information, they need evidence-based competency standards; tools for learning, teaching, and assessment; and outcome monitoring.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Collaborative food systems transformation research can play a valuable role in building long-term capacity to generate policymaking. Panelists and discussants explore lessons learned for strengthening policy research and analysis capacity. This is a webinar.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Researchers assessed caregivers’ knowledge and skills about child development and evaluated the effect of an intervention on the home environment, mother-child interactions, and development outcomes in India. Locally adapted curriculum improved competencies and confidence to promote early child development.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Most measures of responsive feeding do not include bidirectional mother-infant responsivity or early learning principles and have not been validated against observations. Findings in Bangladesh support responsive feeding as modulating between proximal and distal responsivity, promoting autonomy and self-regulation, and helping children develop and practice healthy eating habits.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
This infographic shows how to support men in providing nurturing care from pregnancy to early childhood. It provides a curriculum, guidance, and checklists to train health care providers to increase father engagement.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Recommendations include strengthening responsive care, early learning, safety and security, and counseling and support services. Additional recommendations include strengthening workforce early childhood care and development competencies through pre- and in-service trainings and services; providing support to children with disabilities and their families; and providing tools and processes to aid in identification, support, and referrals of caregivers’ mental health issues.