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The Food and Nutrition Technical Assistance Project (FANTA) Project developed a package of nutrition assessment, counseling, and support training materials for facility-based providers in Zambia to improve their nutrition knowledge and skills. The training package includes a facilitators guide, participant handouts, and a set of PowerPoint slides to reinforce the training.
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This document helps guide program managers and other decision makers considering the use of various types of community media. It includes descriptions of relevant experiences, tools, evidence, and lessons learned. Reflections on earlier definitions and principles of community media are also presented for readers interested in further exploring the foundations and key concepts of this approach.
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This manual is a condensed reference guide that is primarily intended for use by those who have been trained in the Designing for Behavior Change (DBC) approach. The DBC approach was developed to help designers think more critically when developing and reviewing a behavior change strategy. Each step in the DBC process is detailed in the manual, with additional examples and resources in the annexes.
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On June 25, 2019, USAID launched a new resource showcasing the Agency's support for various nutrition focus areas, related research, vulnerable populations, and programming approaches over the past 50 years.
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In 2016, University Research Co. finalized a social and behavior change approach to provide consistent, accurate, and compelling messages that fit within the participatory Farmer Field Schools (FFS) approach and that reinforce the core content of the FFS. For each production or post-harvest practice a producer organization adopts through the FFS, the social and behavior change approach defines the key messages that the agriculture field officers then communicate to lead farmers.
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Optimal breastfeeding is one of the most powerful solutions we have to save the lives of infants and children.
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This brief highlights the importance of capacity strengthening approaches, including mentorship and supportive supervision programming, to the provision of quality counseling. USAID Advancing Nutrition has been working to address the needs of health workers through both peer and supervisory support to provide high quality nutrition services, including counseling. This brief shares learnings from the design, implementation, and monitoring of those programs.
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This brief discusses the importance of quality tools to support counseling for nutrition/nurturing care and shares tools that can improve client and provider relationships, counseling behaviors, and counselor workloads to improve quality of counseling for nutrition/nurturing care. Overall, it highlights the need to understand and focus on both the client and health worker perspective.
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From 2021-2023, USAID Advancing Nutrition supported the Government of Uganda in advancing the country’s food fortification program.
Micronutrient deficiency, often known as “hidden hunger,” is the result of deficiencies in iron, zinc, vitamin A, vitamin B12, and folate, among others.These deficiencies compromise immune systems, hinder child growth and development, and limit human capital. Accurate, consistent measurement of micronutrient deficiencies is critical to improving nutrition. For example, anemia is often misinterpreted as synonymous with iron deficiency, when in fact there are many causes of anemia including nutritional factors, diseases, parasites, and genetic traits.