News and Features
Learn about nutrition champions trained by USAID Advancing Nutrition who voice the needs of their communities and contribute to political and community attention toward improving nutrition.
News and Features
USAID Advancing Nutrition Nigeria’s Pauline Adah shares her insight on implementing wasting treatment and prevention programming and perspective on what is needed to prevent wasting in Nigeria.
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
The Infant and Young Child Feeding (IYCF) Image Bank is a collection of over 900 images, developed from adaptations of UNICEF’s Community Infant and Young Child Feeding Counselling Package. These, and other similar images about recommended IYCF practices, have been used in more than 70 countries for counseling and training to promote behavior change for improved maternal and child nutrition.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
The integrated landscape approaches (ILAs) mixing board helps planners, evaluators, and other stakeholders plan, diagnose, compare, and evaluate ILAs. Further application of the tool will facilitate comparative analysis and inform development of evidence-based land use policy.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
To bridge the gap between communities and the health system and reduce health disparities, USAID is supporting a health network of civil society organizations to identify health system problems and solutions, effectively engage with the Ministry of Health, and participate in monitoring to hold the government accountable.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Findings identify competencies that pre-service curricula may not currently address and provide a roadmap to develop tailored, country- and cadre-specific updates to policies, protocols, pre-service training curricula, job descriptions, qualifications, and certification tools.
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
This tool provides a reference guide and workbook to assist teams with implementing the nutrition assessment, counseling, and support strategy. It helps program planning teams select appropriate community-based nutrition approaches for specific target areas.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
The Local Capacity Strengthening Policy provides a cohesive, global approach to guide USAID decisions about why and how to invest in the capacity of local partners. Priorities for capacity strengthening include having local partners develop their own definition of success, strengthen their ability to be effective and relevant actors within their communities and contexts, and elevate local ownership to sustain results.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
A new app helps locally elected officials understand the concept of optimal nutrition, learn about public welfare services, understand their role in ensuring that every household can access them, and conduct effective Village Health, Sanitation, and Nutrition Committee meetings.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
To detect nutrition issues, support treatment, and facilitate the prevention of malnutrition health workers need the right competencies. Investing in strengthening the nutrition content of pre-service training curricula can have large-scale, sustainable results.