Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Failing to adequately prepare for dietary data collection can often lead to data that is of insufficient quality or that does not provide enough detail for further processing and analysis. This can be avoided by completing certain tasks prior to conducting 24-hour recall surveys. This guidance document provides an overview of the main pre-survey tasks that are necessary for the preparation of various data collection tools, job aids, and auxiliary databases required for calculating food and nutrient intakes in a low- or middle-income country context.
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District Nutrition Coordination Committees (DNCCs) have the mandate to coordinate multisectoral nutrition efforts at district level. The Monitoring and Supportive Supervision Checklist was developed to support this task. This tool is to be used by nutrition stakeholders to monitor implementation of nutrition activities, assess the functionality of DNCCs, identify gaps, and make recommendations.
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Ghana has made some progress towards reducing malnutrition in recent years, but it remains a key development concern and requires a multi-sectoral approach to planning, financing, and coordinating actions to tackle it. The medium-term development plans (MTDPs) of metropolitan, municipal, and district assemblies (MMDAs), which are prepared every four years, are an important entry point for ensuring that local governments prioritize interventions to improve food and nutrition security (FNS) in order to help reduce the incidence of malnutrition.
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The Orientation Package for State Committees for Food and Nutrition (SCFNs), or SCFN Orientation Package, is a comprehensive training package meant to provide SCFNs with an overview of their mandate and roles, as well as key food and nutrition concepts. The package is meant to be used by both SCFN members and trainers working with SCFNs. For current members, the package includes a member handbook that they can use to acquaint themselves with these key topics.
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Ghana has identified nutrition as a cornerstone of its human capital development efforts. To sustain and scale up the country’s efforts to improve the nutritional status of women and children, sustainable funding for effective nutrition and resilience activities at high coverage is needed. However, over the years, insufficient resources have been mobilized and allocated for implementing nutrition and resilience activities. Funding to this area is inadequate, irregular, and unpredictable.
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This expenditure analysis on food security and nutrition (FSN) aims to broaden the understanding of districts to better leverage existing funding and mobilize additional funding for this program area. We conducted this activity as a follow-on exercise (phase 2) in the Bawku West, Daffiama-Bussie-Issa, Garu, Gushegu, Mion, Nanton, Sagnarigu, Sissala East, and Sissala West districts in northern Ghana.
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Mothers are committed to the care and feeding of young children, but they need knowledge and feasible solutions to face the challenges of infant and young child feeding. This brief outlines the causes and outcomes of stunting in Egyptian children and the role of junk food. It also includes key policy and program recommendations to address junk food in Egypt.
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Nigeria’s use of alternative approaches using locally available foods to manage moderate wasting offered an opportunity to conduct a costing study to inform future programming and possible scale-up of these approaches, where relevant. Two approaches to moderate wasting management—Tom Brown and Porridge Mum—are the focus of this costing study
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Investing in pre-service training is an effective and sustainable way to improve nutrition services, but it requires collaboration among governments, academic institutions, professional associations, funders, and technical experts to ensure curricula prepare frontline health workers to deliver quality nutrition services. The brief is available in English, French, and Portuguese.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
The tool identifies social and behavior change (SBC) competencies that project staff need to design, implement, and evaluate SBC components of nutrition programs. Program managers can use these competencies to guide hiring decisions, identify capacity strengthening priorities, and track performance. It is available in English and French.