USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
The Modality Decision Tool (MDT) Nutrition Addendum aids implementing partners to apply a nutrition lens to the selection of appropriate food assistance modalities (cash, vouchers, or in-kind) for the nutritionally vulnerable. This addendum is primarily oriented to USAID/BHA's "supplemental nutrition sub-sector" under their emergency activity guidance, but will also be applicable to resilience food security activities that provide a resource transfer to nutritionally vulnerable populations.
News and Features
USAID Advancing Nutrition will lead two sessions on critical issues in gender, diets, and social and behavior change at this year’s GHTechX.
Event
Speakers highlighted key features of the IYCF Image Bank and explored how images from the Bank can be adapted to fit various cultural contexts.
News and Features
To strengthen leadership and coordination for improved nutrition, USAID Advancing Nutrition has supported the launch of Nutrition Coordination Committees in 17 districts of Ghana.
Project Leadership
Sidi joins us after serving as deputy country director for USAID’s Global Health Supply Chain Project – Procurement and Supply Management in Burkina Faso, where he provided technical assistance to in-country stakeholders and the Ministry of Health (MOH) to build the capacity of the national health supply chain. Before that, Sidi worked as technical adviser and manager for multiple USAID-funded projects focusing on improving resilience through better health, nutrition, hygiene, and sanitation.
Focus Area Subpage
Gender equality and good nutrition go hand-in-hand.
Focus Area Subpage
Learn how we apply USAID's Collaborating, Learning and Adapting approach to advance nutrition.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
By revising the undergraduate curriculum and updating service delivery protocols at hospitals, medical colleges are building the capacity of future generations of medical practitioners to deliver evidence-based maternal nutrition and infant and young child nutrition services.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
This free course, based on the World Health Organization’s Combined Course on Growth Assessment and Infant and Young Child Feeding Counselling and supplemental content, has been adapted to deliver an immersive, interactive e-learning opportunity. While participants report that the course is of high quality and enrollments are increasing, few finish the course. Assessment of whether low completion rates are due to course length, difficulty, and/or limited internet access is ongoing. It is available in French and English.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Current efforts to reimagine technical assistance (TA) largely focus on existing challenges with different types of TA and the development of an ideal model, with little attention paid to decision-making and trade-offs in implementation. This article analyzes TA as a policy option for governments and details the limitations, required enabling environment, and practical implications for different TA models to help governments and donors design better TA programs.