USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
This report describes how the Food and Nutrition Technical Assistance Project (FANTA) Project provided technical assistance, training, and resources at national, regional, and sub-regional levels, to equip the Ethiopia Federal Ministry of Health, regional health bureaus, and other partners to strengthen the integration of nutrition assessment, counseling, and support services as well as nutrition advocacy and multi-sectoral efforts to improve nutrition services. FANTA also developed several recommendations to help Ethiopia maintain and build on its gains in nutrition.
News and Features
Elevating nutrition at the 2019 CORE Group Global Health Practitioner Conference in Bethesda, Maryland.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
In the Kyrgyz Republic, the COVID-19 pandemic impacted the implementation of the updated Baby-Friendly Hospital Initiative policy and guidance. Gaps in prioritizing, funding, and monitoring breastfeeding counseling and supporting competency building remain. Multi-sectoral advocacy to secure greater commitment and funding within and beyond the health system is critical.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
The multi-sectoral Sustainable Undernutrition Reduction in Ethiopia intervention produced significant improvements in almost all aspects of infant and young child feeding practices.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
The Mothers’ Milk Tool enumerates the economic risk of not protecting, promoting, and supporting women’s capacity for breastfeeding and encourages countries to consider breastfeeding in food balance sheets and economic production statistics.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Articles discuss the benefits of prenatal multiple micronutrient supplements, barriers and enablers to uptake, supplement delivery in humanitarian contexts, accelerating supply to meet future demand, social marketing approaches, the importance of partnerships and fostering an enabling environment, and the impacts of scaling on human capital outcomes, among other topics.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
The report highlights global progress on maternal mortality, neonatal mortality, and stillbirths and presents country efforts to meet global targets. Priority actions include encouraging greater investment, political commitment, and community engagement; strengthening service delivery for quality and respectful care; and building stronger data and information systems.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Survey findings showed that prolonged skin-to-skin contact almost doubled, and breastfeeding counseling increased to almost 100 percent. Findings have led to stronger enforcement of the national Code of Marketing of Breastmilk Substitute products. The survey is a cost-effective external monitoring system to establish and maintain quality care in Centers of Excellence for Breastfeeding hospitals.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Engaging fathers and bundling nutrition and parenting programs in Tanzania advanced both gender equality and women’s empowerment more than when community health workers only targeted women.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Higher levels of household cooperation within the family and women's relative power may influence children’s and mothers’ dietary diversity in Odisha and increase the impact of nutrition-sensitive agriculture interventions. Further research should investigate constraints that families face and how interventions can respond to heterogeneity in household dynamics.