Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Ensuring gender transformative outcomes of nutrition-sensitive agriculture programs (NSAPs) requires being intentional about empowering women and transforming gender relations as well as recognizing potential trade-offs between women’s different roles and the unintended consequences of NSAP participation. Using evidence-based strategies to build women’s capacity, address exclusionary gender norms, reach men and communities, and monitor progress by using appropriate and inclusive indicators and methodologies are critical.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Recently made available to the public at no cost, conference research tracks explore Micronutrient Biology and Status Assessment, Efficacy and Safety of Micronutrient Interventions, Program Effectiveness, Designing an Enabling Environment for Micronutrients, and Food Systems. Slideshows and other written materials accompany recorded presentations. Although access to conference materials is free, registration is required.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Alive & Thrive’s Cost of Not Breastfeeding tool demonstrates the importance of breastfeeding to increase economic productivity and reduce healthcare costs. It also points to the multifaceted approaches required to address social and cultural factors, health care practices and policies, inadequate paid leave policies and legislation, aggressive marketing of breast milk substitutes, knowledge gaps, and inadequate skilled support.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Speakers shed light on how small-scale farmers are dealing with COVID-19, risks to food security for mothers and children, the importance of bringing digital services to farmers, and the advantages of poultry farming over other types of livestock farming. This is a podcast.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Fortifying staple foods with essential vitamins and minerals is one evidence-based and highly cost-effective solution to help ensure that the food system delivers a more nutritious and affordable diet to all. Upcoming international summits are key moments to mobilize support for, and prioritization of, staple food fortification to fight disease and poverty among the communities most vulnerable to poor nutrition.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
While gender equality and women’s empowerment are associated with improved child nutrition, early childhood nutrition also contributes to strong and healthy women. Interventions such as supplying pregnant women with prenatal vitamins can make a significant difference to their financial security and economic empowerment. A growing number of countries are adopting feminist foreign policy agendas and COVID-19 response plans.
Anemia Toolkit
This National Strategy aimed to reduce the prevalence of anemia among high-risk groups in Bangladesh by 2015 by 25 percent. The strategy identifies comprehensive interventions aimed at high-risk groups, in particular infants and young children, adolescent girls, newly wed women, and pregnant and breastfeeding women.
Anemia Toolkit
This report presents an outline of the strategy designed to control anemia in Nepal.
Anemia Toolkit
This systematic review was conducted to evaluate the evidence of the efficacy of iron biofortification interventions on iron status and functional outcomes. Five studies from 3 randomized efficacy trials (rice, pearl millet, beans) conducted in India, the Philippines, and Rwanda were included. Findings suggest that iron biofortification is an efficacious intervention to improve continuous measures of iron status. Findings indicate that iron-biofortified food consumption exhibits a positive impact on attention and memory outcomes.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
With the results from the SHINE and WASH Benefits trials demonstrating limited impact of basic water, sanitation, hygiene (WASH) on childhood stunting, what role does WASH now play in multi-sectoral nutrition programming? Following the studies, the World Health Organization and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation convened experts to reach a consensus on five key messages in response to the new evidence. This consensus statement details those five messages.