News and Features
From June 13–17, USAID Advancing Nutrition hosted an all-country learning retreat with eight of the project’s Chiefs of Party.
News and Features
To commemorate World Food Safety Day, USAID Advancing Nutrition worked with the Nigeria Federal Ministry of Health to promote adoption of a food safety culture.
Improving women's diets is essential to reducing poverty and hunger.
Boosting woman’s nutrition is essential for their health and well-being and has a ripple effect on the rest of her household and community. Well nourished women are better able to provide for themselves and their families.
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
The relationship between food processing and diets is complex; expanding the production of processed foods may play a role in both supporting and hindering food systems in delivering safe, nutritious diets. In regions of the world with high burdens of malnutrition—including both overweight/obesity, micronutrient deficiency, and undernutrition—food processing can be leveraged to improve diets and nutrition. This brief for USAID and implementing partners assists with the design and implementation of food processing activities for improved diets and nutrition.
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USAID Advancing Nutrition Ghana has given 139,000 maternal and child health record books to the Ghana Health Service (GHS) to help improve the quality of nutrition service delivery.
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
The Rang-Din Nutrition Study was designed to evaluate the effectiveness, within a community-based program, of home fortification approaches for the prevention of maternal and child undernutrition during the first 1,000 days. This report describes results of a follow-up assessment of the study participants when the children were 40 to 52 months of age (i.e., 16–28 months after the interventions ended).
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
This journal article assesses the impacts of providing lipid-based nutrient supplements to women during pregnancy and postpartum and/or to their children on self-reported household food insecurity. The daily provision of lipid-based nutrient supplements to mothers and their children throughout much of the first 1,000 days may improve household food security in some settings, which could be viewed as an additional benefit that may accrue in households should policymakers choose to invest in these supplements to promote child growth and development.
Adolescent Nutrition Resource Bank
This document outlines a strategic plan by the Ministry of Health to address various health and reproductive issues affecting adolescents and children in Burkina Faso. The plan includes specific objectives for improving adolescents and children, as well as indicators for tracking these objectives. Themes include sexual and reproductive health, nutrition, drug abuse, noncommunicable diseases, and access to health care services.
Adolescent Nutrition Resource Bank
The report reviews the current guidelines addressing global targets for reducing maternal mortality and anemia in girls and women of reproductive age and addressing the nutritional needs of pregnant and lactating women and adolescent girls. It idenitifies gaps in achieving these targets and provides recommendations for ways to improve related indicators on women and adolescent girls.
Adolescent Nutrition Resource Bank
The biref summarizes key findings from the Better Investment for Stunting Alleviation project undertaken in two districts in Indonesia. The project aimed to reduce stunting by improving the nutritional status of adolescent girls, pregnant and lactating women, women of reproductive age, and children under the age of two in the selected districts. It outlines key findings on adolescent perceptions and behaviors.