Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Women’s ability to exercise time-use agency was conditional on gendered power dynamics and other barriers within households, which together are related to gender norms. Future research should examine how to measure time-use agency in surveys and should explore patterns of time-use agency among diverse groups and contexts.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
This tool highlights behaviors related to food supply, food environment, and food and water use and presents examples of what is required to ensure behaviors are nutrition sensitive. It will help activity designers and implementers design more effective approaches to increase the adoption of behaviors to improve nutrition outcomes.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Challenges with scaling up interventions include transferring implementation to organizations, addressing pushback to changing norms and shifts in political support, and institutionalizing work within governmental social and behavior change programs. Lessons include developing theories of change before scale up begins, understanding the importance of stakeholder engagement when adapting approaches, seizing institutionalization opportunities, and understanding the importance of monitoring. This is a webinar and is available in English and French. It includes a slide deck in English.
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The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) Advancing Nutrition project is the Agency’s flagship nutrition project, led by JSI Research & Training Institute, Inc. (JSI), and a diverse group of experienced partners. Launched in September 2018, USAID Advancing Nutrition implements and provides technical support to nutrition interventions across sectors and disciplines for USAID and its partners. The project’s multi-sectoral approach draws together global nutrition experience to design, implement and evaluate programs that address the root causes of malnutrition.
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
This child anemia training module for training frontline health and Integrated Child Development Services workers in Uttar Pradesh, India, includes a training module, resources, capsules, and facilitators guide. The training addresses the magnitude of the child anemia problem, its service implications, and measures created for preventing it. It emphasizes consumption of iron and folic acid supplements by pregnant women and young children ages 6 to 59 months.
Food Systems Toolkit
There are increasing calls to take a food systems approach to food and nutrition policy; however, it is often unclear how policymakers can adopt this approach and adapt it to their particular context. R4D and the Centre for Food Policy at City at University of London developed an evidence review and four technical briefs to respond to this challenge. The briefs provide practical guidance on how to operationalize a food systems approach to acheive improve food systems outcomes.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Segmentation methodologies facilitate in-depth and nuanced understanding of individual and contextual drivers of behavior, which can help in designing and evaluating appropriate social and behavior change (SBC) interventions. Panelists who have used these approaches, developed frameworks and tools, and worked with implementers to develop innovative SBC interventions globally discuss their efforts. This is a webinar.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Several behavioral factors discourage and make caregivers feel powerless against constraints to feeding their children well. Research informed a collaborative design process for solutions to help families set achievable goals for feeding during and after illness, expand their choice set to additional affordable and nutritious local foods, and build skills and confidence to overcome limited appetite. This is a webinar and is available in English and French.
Job Posting
Posting Date: 05/20/2022
Deadline Date: 07/22/2022
Starting Date: 08/01/2022
News and Features
The African Union’s Year of Nutrition highlights the importance of investing in nutrition across the continent.