Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
USAID representatives discuss agency priorities, the types of partners it supports, and how to find funding opportunities. The goal of the New Partnerships Initiative is to multiply its development impact by elevating local leadership, fostering creativity and innovation, and mobilizing resources across the Agency’s programs. This is a webinar.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Recent research about community-led development (CLD) includes analysis of when this model has worked well, its impact on outcomes, and how to adapt existing evaluation methods to capture the complexity and multi-dimensional nature of CLD. The presenters introduce an assessment tool to improve and strengthen program design and a quality appraisal tool to ensure evaluations uphold CLD principles. This is a series of two webinars.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Reach-Up and Learn, an evidence-based home-visiting program focused on early childhood development, has been adapted for routine delivery in community clinics. Iterative piloting identified challenges in incorporating the program into existing workloads and promoting mothers' engagement. This led to simplifying the content and structure, using more hands-on learning strategies, providing incentives to community members, and conducting motivational meetings. Authors conclude that incorporating participant feedback is critical as pilots scale.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Greater understanding of the interconnectedness of maternal, newborn, child, and adolescent health led the World Health Organization and UNICEF to shift away from an exclusive focus on under-5 survival and toward an integrated ecological life course perspective. Authors call for greater integration of disability in children and adolescents into the global health agenda.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Paternal involvement in the care of children in rural Rwanda born preterm, low birth weight and/or with hypoxic ischemic encephalopathy is limited. Significant factors associated with father involvement included smaller household size, maternal engagement in decision-making and learning activities, and being on‐track in developmental milestones for problem solving. The number of activities a father engaged in was significantly associated with the child's overall development. This article is behind a paywall.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Findings from Guatemala suggest childhood nutritional supplementation and psychosocial stimulation have long-lasting effects on cognitive ability, executive function, and psychological well-being in adults.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Building frontline worker skills to deliver strengths-based counseling increases caregiver confidence and well-being and helps caregivers develop stress management, self-care, and conflict-resolution skills. This is a webinar.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Focused on wasting, this edition demonstrates the continued innovation and adaptation of nutrition actors to evolving contexts and challenges. A special section highlights the community-based management of acute malnutrition (CMAM) Surge model, a health systems strengthening approach that has shown promise at health facility and district levels. Successfully addressing pandemics, food systems, and climate change requires the integration of nutrition interventions.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Response priorities include reducing morbidity, incidents of human rights violations, and gender-based violence. Also critical are ensuring safe, equitable, and dignified access to cross-sectoral services to address basic needs; identifying strategies to assist those vulnerable to crisis as they seek to recover; seeking solutions to displacement; and building resilience to shocks and stresses.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
The World Food Program is working with the Ethiopian government to improve transportation capacity, deliver humanitarian assistance and emergency food relief, and launch a supplementary feeding program to support nutritionally vulnerable children as well as pregnant and lactating women. The United Nations Special Adviser on Prevention of Genocide calls on authorities to establish mechanisms to address the root causes of ethnic violence, build national cohesion, and promote reconciliation.