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Meet a nutrition champion and Kenyan father whose participation in a male support group led him to understand his role in ensuring the health and nutrition of his family.
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Chief of Party Dr. Sidi Coulibaly explained the current nutrition climate in Burkina Faso, priorities in addressing malnutrition in the country, and more.
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Read about the experiences of this mother-to-mother support group from Linda Nekesa, a second time mother, and Neddy Luvale, a community health volunteer.
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Prioritizing children with feeding difficulties and disabilities is vital to helping them thrive, but they are routinely excluded from nutrition programs, services, and policies.
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Jalal-Abad TV aired a news segment featuring a story from a village in Kyrgyz Republic highlighting the positive impact of early childhood development practices and proper nutrition.
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UNICEF, WHO, and the World Bank recently released the 2023 Joint Child Malnutrition Estimates (JME). Generation of the JME can be hampered by poor quality data, which is why the WHO UNICEF Technical Expert Advisory Group on Nutrition Monitoring (TEAM) has established a working group on anthropometry data quality.
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub

This e-learning tool serves as an introductory overview of the nutrition assessment, counseling, and support (NACS) approach. It is a client-centered programmatic approach for integrating a set of priority nutrition interventions into health care services and strengthening health systems. NACS covers prevention, detection, and treatment of malnutrition and maintenance of improved nutritional status to prevent relapse.
Anemia Toolkit

This paper presents estimates of the cost-effectiveness of a mandatory wheat flour fortification program for reducing cases of micronutrient deficiencies of iron, zinc, folate, vitamin B12, anemia and neural tube defects, and disability-adjusted life years in urban Cameroon.
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub

For the last two decades, Tanzania has significantly improved nutrition outcomes and made noteworthy efforts in integrating nutrition within key national development agendas. In 2016, the government of the United Republic of Tanzania (URT) launched the National Multi-sectoral Nutrition Action Plan (NMNAP) to scale up multi-sectoral nutrition actions. This progressive initiative was the first of its kind, and the nutrition community drew critical learnings from the first implementation period of 2016/2017 to 2020/21.
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub

USAID Advancing Nutrition conducted a scoping review of social and behavior change (SBC) for nutrition in protracted emergencies to help stakeholders in the Bureau for Humanitarian Assistance (BHA). We identified a range of guidance and standards; toolkits; evidence reviews, briefs, and case studies; and project-specific documents. Project specific documents demonstrated that some implementers are using SBC methods, approaches, and platforms that are similar to nutrition SBC work in recovery or development contexts.