Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Key recommendations in this assessment include training smallholder farmers about the benefits of adopting sustainable intensification technologies; establishing demonstration plots; and improving farmer access to inputs, support services, and markets.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
While the cost and affordability of a healthy diet (CoAHD) metric is widely used, little is known about the accuracy and sensitivity of CoAHD indicators. Proposed methodological improvements significantly change estimates of healthy diet affordability, indicating the need for further research.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
This toolkit helps market actors understand and develop strategies to address barriers to increasing sales of nutritious foods.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Findings suggest that women’s empowerment contributes to improved diets and nutritional status, especially for children, but that household wealth, social class, and gender norms moderate impacts. Strengthening the evidence base will require more research using experimental and quasi-experimental methods and completing gender-disaggregated analyses.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
The website presents new diet data and country-adapted data collection tools for 56 countries. It also offers an indicator calculator to help users analyze their own data. This is a webinar.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Speakers discuss a mixed method, route-based study to look at migrant origins, their transit experience, and where their journey stalls or ends. They introduce an interactive website that illustrates the migrant journey and associated risks. This is a webinar.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Researchers discuss how multi-sectoral World Food Program interventions, partnerships, and collaborations have reduced tensions and improved social cohesion in fragile contexts. This is a webinar. It is in English with simultaneous interpretation into French.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Supporting children with feeding difficulties and disabilities requires strengthening systems to improve the identification, early intervention, and inclusion of children with complex needs in primary health care services and expanding availability of specialized services. Provide support to families to address social determinants and raise awareness of the need and opportunities. Build the evidence base on effective interventions to support children and their families and identify the most effective tools and approaches.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Aid workers reported increases in the number of women seeking care and treatment for their malnourished children and in ready-to-use therapeutic food refill requests. While they urge mothers to stick to a schedule during treatment and to bring their children back for follow-up to ensure a full recovery, they are fearful that critical supplies could be cut off.
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
This simple and easy-to-use toolkit was developed for mapping the nutrition workforce within the health sector. The purpose of this assessment is to collect data on nutrition-specific actions performed by health workers at different levels with the health care service-delivery system. Data that are gathered include nutrition workforce size, composition, qualification, availability, gaps, and training status within different levels of the health facility.