USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
This collection of nutrition cards instructs clients who have been assessed as severely malnourished, moderately malnourished, healthy weight, overweight, and obese on the types and amounts of foods they should eat.
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
This technical brief, aimed at government ministries, pre-service teaching institutions, and other stakeholders, describes the process and methods the Food and Nutrition Technical Assistance Project (FANTA) Project used to strengthen pre-service nutrition education and training of frontline health care providers.
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
This tool is designed for agricultural projects designers worldwide to narrow the gap between the goal of raising income and productivity and the goal of improving nutrition. The starting point for the tool is specific interventions to strengthen agriculture-nutrition linkages or interventions that could be directed to this end. The tool has been developed to be applicable specifically to Feed the Future interventions but is applicable more generally to agricultural interventions.
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
In 2015, Concern Worldwide conducted a study in Zambia to inform how agricultural interventions based on conservation agriculture practices can integrate nutrition considerations. The study engaged stakeholders to identify opportunities for using conservation agriculture to improve household diets (and thus contribute to improved nutrition) and advance the situation for women. This report summarizes the findings of the study and provides recommendations on how to improve nutrition outcomes within conservation agriculture.
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
The course aims to improve the capacity of health service providers at all levels to better integrate nutrition assessment, counseling, and support into all health service delivery points.
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
This technical brief includes information on strategic approaches, achievements attained, lessons learned, and challenges encountered during program implementation in the Ntungamo District in southwestern Uganda.
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
Extension advisory services support smallholders to improve the productivity and efficiency of their farms and make business decisions. The smallholders and households addressed by these services are also often food insecure and suffer chronic or acute forms of malnutrition, which affects the physical and cognitive growth of children and reduces productivity. This brief reviews selected instruments that extension advisory services can use to identify and address the nutritional needs of rural households and to mainstream nutrition-sensitive messages in their service provision.
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
The U.S. Government's Global Food Security Strategy presents an integrated approach to combating the root causes of hunger, malnutrition, and poverty. This guidance on nutrition is one of 18 technical guidance documents intended to provide a shared understanding of key concepts and best practices for designing and implementing Feed the Future programs under the Global Food Security Strategy. It is meant to helps missions design new and follow-on integrated programming that incorporates nutrition objectives and technical approaches to optimize nutrition outcomes.
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
The booklets cover the four indices for different age groups: weight-for-height/length, height/length-for-age, weight-for-age, and body mass index-for-age. Two booklets provide growth tables for girls and boys and two provide growth charts for girls and boys.
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
This tool aims to facilitate agreement between agriculture specialists and nutrition specialists as they jointly design project interventions aimed at improving nutrition for vulnerable women and children under age 2. It helps them prioritize a short list of crops to promote for the household’s main agricultural plot in a project and/or geographic area in order to meet both agriculture and nutrition priorities. The tool is designed for agriculture and nutrition staff involved with planning and/or implementing development programs funded by the U.S. Agency for International Development.