Event
In honor of World Breastfeeding Week and National Breastfeeding Month, the U.S. Government Global Nutrition Coordination Plan hosted an event in Washington D.C on August 2019 to bring together U.S. Government departments and agencies, implementing partners, external stakeholders, civil society, and other breastfeeding advocates to discuss U.S. Government investments in supporting families to breastfeed in the workplace and in communities, and skilled support for breastfeeding.
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
Para quem é este guia?Este guia é destinado para os planificadores e implementadores de programas de nutrição que visam a integrar o género nas catividades de nutrição multissectoriais nacionais ou globais.
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
This time-saving tool helps health care workers in developing countries to quickly calculate body mass index (BMI) and BMI-for-age to determine a client’s nutritional status. Determining BMI is an inexpensive, reliable way for health workers to identify malnutrition in children over 5 years of age, adolescents, and non-pregnant, non-lactating adults.
News and Features
Zhannat grew up in a big family in a rural, tree-filled region of Southern Kyrgyzstan, and now has five children of her own. Her youngest daughter, 8-month-old Aitunuk, is the only child that Zhannat breastfed exclusively, and for a whole six months.
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
We conducted a desk review guided by the Global Action Plan (GAP) on Wasting framework. The objective of the GAP is to reduce global wasting prevalence to less than 5 percent by 2025 and reduce global wasting prevalence to less than 3 percent by 2030. The GAP aims to achieve this outcome by targeting four key outcomes:
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As USAID has increased its commitments to invest in wasting, it has raised the importance of reducing wasting through both prevention and treatment. There is potential to help reduce wasting through the food system as several key drivers of wasting are rooted in food systems—namely the immediate driver of unhealthy diets and the underlying driver of household food insecurity. In this brief, we synthesize the existing evidence base on reducing wasting through food systems approaches, summarize implementation considerations, and recommend areas for further research based on evidence gaps.
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This two-page job aid helps community volunteers in Nigeria conduct community infant and young child feeding support groups after completing training on infant and young child feeding.
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USAID Advancing Nutrition worked with the Government of Ghana to strengthen the capacity of village savings and loans associations (VSLAs) and mother-to-mother support groups (MTMSGs) in 17 districts in northern Ghana to integrate VSLA (village savings and loans associations) with nutrition activities.
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As part of efforts to address malnutrition, USAID Advancing Nutrition supported 17 Metropolitan, Municipal, and District Assemblies (MMDAs) in northern Ghana to develop their 2022–2025 medium-term development plans (MTDPs) and integrate food and nutrition security (FNS) actions into these plans.
Activity
In Kenya, USAID Advancing Nutrition led policy customization, enhanced multisector planning at the subnational level, and strengthened government-led nutrition coordination.