Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
This research finds that in India, health worker home visits, convenient transportation, and family support facilitated antenatal care checkups and maternal weight-gain monitoring, but limited motivation and understanding of the importance of checkups represent obstacles to such care. While respondents reported high levels of knowledge and awareness of key recommendations for dietary diversity, they cite financial strain and lack of food availability and accessibility as barriers to behavior change.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
This review finds that peer counseling was effective for breastfeeding, complementary feeding, minimum meal frequency, and minimum dietary diversity. These findings may inform future programs to extend the length of peer counseling for mothers.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
The Stronger with Breastmilk Only Initiative has contributed to progress in legislation and policies, coordination, funding, training, program delivery, and research and evaluation. This study highlights how combining a set of interventions to address determinants of breastfeeding at multiple levels can be implemented and contributes to fostering an enabling environment for breastfeeding at scale.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
This e-learning course offers a practical introduction to behavioral science and behavioral design and explains how to apply these approaches to nutrition efforts. A case study illustrates the behavioral design process and guides participants to assess whether and how the solutions presented can be adapted to other contexts.
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USAID Advancing Nutrition is the Agency’s flagship multi-sectoral nutrition project, led by JSI Research & Training Institute, Inc. (JSI), and a diverse group of experienced partners. We strengthen the enabling environment for and support country-led scale-up of effective, integrated and sustainable multi-sectoral nutrition programs, interventions and food and health systems. We are currently seeking a consultant to assist with the completion of a review of food assistance modality decision making and activity design for USAID's Office of Food for Peace.
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
This decision tool is intended for those involved in the design, planning, implementation, and monitoring of a nutrition humanitarian response before and during an emergency. It aims to guide technical advisors and managers working on a humanitarian response to design and incorporate complementary feeding actions, whether they are implemented by individual organizations and/or by joint multi-agency humanitarian responses, for children 6–23 months of age, regardless of their breastfeeding status, at each stage of the humanitarian program cycle.
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
Food Taboos and Preferences in Women of Reproductive Age and Children Under Two in Mainland Tanzania
This report presents the findings from a qualitative, formative research study on the food preferences of and cultural/religious prohibitions for women of reproductive age, children 6–23 months, and adolescent girls in selected regions of mainland Tanzania.
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
Un changement social et comportemental (CSC) est nécessaire pour améliorer toutes les composantes de l’alimentation des jeunes enfants : une alimentation adéquate, des services adéquats et des pratiques alimentaires adéquates. Ce manuel met en évidence les défis et les exemples spécifiques au CSC de qualité pour améliorer l'alimentation complémentaire. Les concepts de base d’une conception CSC de qualité ; mise en œuvre; et le suivi, l'évaluation et l'apprentissage présentés dans ce manuel peuvent être utilisés pour améliorer d'autres comportements nutritionnels.
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
Investing in pre-service training is an especially effective and sustainable approach to improving nutrition services at scale. However, it requires a collaborative effort by all stakeholders—government ministries, academic institutions, professional associations, funders, and technical experts—to ensure curricula prepare frontline health workers to deliver quality nutrition services.
Adolescent Nutrition Resource Bank
This brief provides guidance on appropriate use and considerations for limiting anemia testing, assessment, and screening using hemoglobin in public health anemia reduction efforts for adolescents.