Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Kuhn’s organization, Roots of Peace, has facilitated the removal of unexploded bombs and landmines; planted millions of grapevines and fruit trees; provided training for farmers; restored agricultural value chains; and rebuilt food systems, livelihoods, and communities in several war-torn countries.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Key activities this year include engaging national actors to adopt and scale multiple micronutrient supplementation; raising awareness of women’s nutrition challenges; developing strategic partnerships and collaborations across maternal nutrition, health, and related fields; and expanding the consortium’s capacity, expertise, and reach.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Comprehensive counseling, and responsive feeding (RF) are an essential aspect of adequate nutrition and responsive caregiving. This brief describes how responsive feeding promotes positive caregiver-child interactions and early learning. Interventions to support RF should be implemented and coordinated across systems, including health, nutrition, social welfare, parenting, and childcare programs.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Future investments should include strengthening nutrition as part of primary health care, identifying pathways through which food systems most effectively and efficiently prevent child wasting, improving access to ready-to-use therapeutic food for treatment and specialized nutritious food (SNF) for prevention, supporting the development of sustainable financing strategies for health systems and SNF procurement, and conducting cross-sectoral and cross-bureau analyses and implementation research.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
The Diet Quality Questionnaire is a low-burden, low-cost, and simple tool to calculate the fruit and vegetable component of the Global Dietary Recommendation score and to monitor fruit and vegetable consumption at the population level. This article is behind a paywall.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
The intervention group demonstrated lower levels of stunting and underweight but higher levels of wasting in Nigeria. Regardless of water, sanitation, and hygiene programming exposure, underweight, stunting, and wasting were significantly lower among older children. This article is behind a paywall.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
This newly updated toolkit provides resources to improve the understanding of the facets of anemia, its nature, significance, assessment, prevention and control. It includes resources pertaining to anemia causation and its assessment, tools for strategic intervention, and needs for further investigation.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Small-quantity lipid-based nutrient supplementation and complementary feeding promotion (CFP) for children 6−23 months of age reduced premature births, low birth weight, and stillbirths. The benefit-cost ratio was lowest for CFP for children in the three lowest socio-economic status quintiles due to the high cost of accomplishing behavior change in these households. Replacing iron and folic acid for pregnant women with multiple micronutrient supplements (MMS) as well as using MMS and calcium supplements together reduced maternal mortality and showed the highest benefit-cost ratio.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
The World Health Organization anemia framework consolidates evidence, identifies ways to address the direct causes, risk factors, and broad social inequities that are fundamental drivers of anemia, and identifies key action areas for various actors to improve coverage and uptake of interventions.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Panelists identify consistent drivers of anemia reduction across geographies and context-specific multi-sectoral interventions and present case studies from two countries. This is a webinar.