Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
This set of design workshop materials helps activity teams develop contextually appropriate, nutrition-sensitive agriculture outcomes, interventions, and indicators. The facilitator’s guide and accompanying slide decks are available in English and French.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Using best practices from the capacity strengthening field, this brief series guides program managers and technical staff to assess nutrition training programs. Additional briefs explore the challenges of measuring capacity strengthening activities and illustrate measurement tools and approaches at work in Uganda.
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
This curriculum for health workers is based on the World Health Organization and United Nations Children’s Fund Infant and Young Child Feeding Counselling: An Integrated Course. Given the urgency of training large numbers of health workers and counselors, the course has been adapted to respond to the specific needs in Lesotho by training those who care for mothers and children in the basics of good infant and young child feeding.
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The first 1,000 days spanning roughly between conception and a child’s second birthday is a period of unique development, representing both risk and opportunity. It is during this time that a foundation is laid in a child’s brain, with 799 new neural connections established every second, making it especially vulnerable to external factors, including optimal nutrition, strong social support, and secure attachment. Enhancing the linkages between good nutrition, brain development, and nurturing care can strengthen multi-sectoral programming to improve health and development outcomes.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
These resources can be used to assess and revise nutrition content in pre-service training curricula for health workers who provide frontline nutrition services. It is available in English and Russian.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
This review offers recommendations including strengthening systems to improve identification and service provision, providing direct support to families to improve nutrition outcomes, engaging in advocacy to raise awareness of needs and opportunities, and building the evidence base on effective interventions.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Country profiles present country-level secondary data, policies, and programs focused on improving nutrition and early childhood development outcomes through the provision of nurturing care.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Materials in this resource bank help program managers, government leaders, and donor agency staff design and implement effective nutrition programs for children with disabilities. Information focuses on identifying and managing feeding difficulties, identifying disabilities, supporting children with disabilities and their families, and promoting disability inclusion.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
The package includes illustrated counseling cards; training materials; and a guide for planning, adapting, and implementing individual and group counseling sessions. Accompanying videos show real caregiver-child interactions for newborns and young children and counseling sessions between a health worker and caregiver.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
The guide provides practical advice, examples, and resources for planning and executing social marketing campaigns to improve nutrition outcomes.