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Practitioners working in nutrition must start thinking about the effect food, health, and education systems have on nutrition practices and outcomes. “Systems thinking” means paying attention to the unpredictable interactions among actors, sectors, disciplines, and determinants of nutrition. That thinking results in new ways of approaching, analyzing, and solving challenges, which must be applied through policy development, program design, implementation, and research.
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The Strengthening Partnerships, Results, and Innovations in Nutrition Globally (SPRING) project developed this farmer field school (FFS) curriculum to improve farming practices and increase aflatoxin-safe groundnut crops for better household nutrition. It was originally developed for the Ghana Ministry of Food and Agriculture’s agricultural extension agents to work with groundnut farmers in Northern Ghana supported by SPRING. The project trained agents to use the curriculum before they began facilitating their sessions with local farmers.
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This Community Video for Nutrition Guide is a joint product of the USAID-funded Strengthening Partnerships, Results, and Innovations in Nutrition Globally (SPRING) project and Digital Green (DG), an international nongovernmental organization (NGO) registered in the United States and India. This guide is based on both organizations' combined experience in implementing a proof of concept project between January and October 2013, formally known as the SPRING/DG Collaboration and Feasibility Study.
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The Scaling Up Nutrition (SUN) Movement’s 2013 Progress Report pointed to the importance of in-country resource availability and mobilization, and highlighted the challenges countries face in tracking resources destined for nutrition programming (SUN 2013a). The success of national nutrition plans relies heavily on adequate funding, but because of its multi‑sectoral nature, planning and budgeting for nutrition work is not easy.
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Nearly half of all deaths in children under five are attributable to undernutrition. Three million lives are lost each year to it (UNICEF 2016). Undernutrition not only increases the frequency and severity of common infections and the risk of dying from them, but it also has long-term consequences on growth and development and is associated with impaired cognitive ability, reduced school and work performance, and increased risk of noncommunicable diseases later in life.
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In its first year, USAID Advancing Nutrition, the Agency’s flagship multi-sectoral nutrition project, co-developed a project-wide internal SBC Strategic Focus Document with nutrition SBC leads at the USAID Bureau for Resilience and Food Security (RFS), the Bureau for Global Health, and the Bureau for Humanitarian Assistance (BHA) to guide activities during the life of the project and help carry out the USAID Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Strategy. This document builds on that roadmap and experience and presents an updated strategic direction.
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This job aid was developed to help health care workers in Mozambique make accurate recommendations and ensure the safest and best feeding approach for children born to HIV-positive mothers.
From 2019-2023, USAID Advancing Nutrition compiled useful resources from across different sectors for a fuller look at efforts to improve nutrition. The Review was delivered via email bi-monthly and available below.Skip to section:
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USAID Advancing Nutrition Senior Technical Advisor Sascha Lamstein presented in Accra, Ghana at the Improving Nutrition Services in the Care of the Ill and Vulnerable Newborn and Child workshop.
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This annex to the Nutrition Social and Behavior Change Strategic Focus Document developed by USAID Advancing Nutrition, the Agency’s flagship multi-sectoral nutrition project, with three USAID bureaus, offers special considerations for the Bureau for Humanitarian Assistance (BHA). With the aim of sustainably improving behaviors and social norms that drive resilience and food security goals in fragile contexts, this annex offers future directions specific to BHA and BHA-funded social and behavior change (SBC) support activities.