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USAID Advancing Nutrition is working to sustain improved diets and support the Bureau for Resilience and Food Security goals of reducing hunger, ma
Focus Area Page
Photo Credit: WEI/Robin Hammond 2011
Countries around the world are increasingly experiencing emergencies due to natural disasters, conflict, displacement and migration.
Job Posting
The USAID Advancing Nutrition Nutrition and Humanitarian Advisor position is open for recruitment from March 27 - April 10. This position is fully seconded to USAID Advancing Nutrition and is based in JSI's Arlington office. Qualified applicants are encouraged to apply through the single (1) organization they are most interested in working for using the links below. Submitting applications through more than one (1) consortium partner is prohibited and could result in disqualification.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
This paper asserts that limited animal source food interventions are incorporated into development programming, using USAID Feed the Future initiatives as an example.
Project Leadership
Debora worked as Nutrition Lead and Program Manager for RISE RCT at Helen Keller International in Tanzania. In her role, she managed nutrition portfolio and provided technical and managerial support in implementation of RCT project with interventions targeting 1000 days. Before that, Debora worked with Institute for International Program at Johns Hopkins University as Resident Advisor for National Evaluation Platform in Tanzania.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Systematic reviews of available evidence inform this guideline, which provides recommendations for improving child development within the health sector. Key recommendations include promoting responsive care for early learning, integrating responsive care and nutrition interventions, and supporting maternal mental health. A central theme throughout: supporting parents as they provide essential care for their children to promote optimal development.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
The Countdown to 2030 for Women’s, Children’s and Adolescents’ Health aims to strengthen measurement of progress to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals with a focus on “intervention coverage and inequality.” In this webinar, presenters discussed country profiles of nurturing care indicators that can help measure progress in nurturing care (health, nutrition, responsive care, early learning, and security and safety) and its enabling environment. The profiles feature 138 low- and middle-income countries that have available data.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Malaria is a leading cause of morbidity and mortality among children under 5 years and anemia is a well known morbidity resulting from malaria infection. This study in western Kenya found malaria infection significantly increased odds of risk for delays in gross motor, communication, and social-emotional development.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
To better understand the links between diet quality and developmental status in resource-poor settings, the authors of this study explored different aspects of dietary quality and child development among children in a western Nepali community. Analysis of dietary diversity, animal-source food, and “Ages and Stages Questionnaire” scores led researchers to recommend that programs targeting child development also consider home environmental quality along with long-term diet quality.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Understanding inequities in access to early childhood services and outcomes is important to guide targeted interventions and ensure all children benefit from nurturing care. This study analyzed prevalence of exposure to stunting and/or extreme poverty, access to early childhood care and education programs, home stimulation, and child development using national surveys from 94 countries that assessed inequalities across child gender, household wealth, rural/urban location, and income group.