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An NPI-supported project coordinated a range of community-based activities to prevent and manage cases of severe and moderate acute malnutrition.
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This package includes four age-specific modules that provide information, at each age/stage, on how children grow and develop, what their feeding and care needs are, and the challenges caregivers face providing optimal care. Each module also provides example activities that programs can do to support targeted nutrition and responsive care and early learning activities at each age/stage.
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A learning brief on results-based management (RBM) activities in Burkina Faso.
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We delivered these learning labs and poster presentations at the Agriculture, Nutrition, and Health Academy in June 2023 online and in person in Lilongwe, Malawi. Presenters discuss caregiver resources, social and behavior change measurement, and food environment methods and metrics.
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USAID Advancing Nutrition conducted a rapid assessment in Ghana between March and April 2023 to determine gaps in training and supplies needed for the provision of maternal and child health and nutrition (MCHN) services in the 55 districts in the Northern, North East, Upper East, Upper West, and Savannah regions.
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This report and handout summarize research intended to provide the information necessary to design effective activities to improve infant and young child feeding and nutrition within new or existing programs in Malawi.
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The purpose of this landscape analysis was to better understand the status of anemia, likely causes of anemia, and current anemia programming in the four regions of northern Ghana (Northern, Upper East, Upper West, and North East regions). These regions are often referred to as the Northern Belt.
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The Preventing Malnutrition in Children under 2 Approach (PM2A) is a preventive approach that has been shown to be more effective in reducing the prevalence of stunting, being underweight, and wasting than a traditional recuperative program model. The Food and Nutrition Technical Assistance II Project (FANTA-2) commissioned a study to evaluate the impact of this preventive approach by conducting impact evaluations of two PM2A programs in Guatemala and Burundi.
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Grandmothers play a pivotal role in advising mothers and families on how to raise young children and care for pregnant women, and therefore it is critical that grandmothers have the best health and feeding information for the optimal growth of infants and care for pregnant women, and are provided with a forum for discussion. This manual is designed to provide mentors of grandmother dialogue groups with the information and techniques they need to encourage discussions on family care and optimal infant and young child feeding.
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The article examines infants and young children in Egypt, who face overlapping forms of malnutrition, including micronutrient deficiencies, stunting, and overweight. Findings demonstrated a need to develop new intervention strategies to address the double burden of malnutrition in this population.