Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Data for Impact helps countries improve their program design, policies, and overall health outcomes through operationalizing the power of data.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
This tool provides a framework for identifying individual, social, and structural factors that support or hinder continued breastfeeding through age two. Acknowledging the importance of external forces on continued breastfeeding, the tool guides the identification of supportive actions required by policymakers and others and facilitates thinking about possible program strategies.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
There is a gap between knowledge and practices related to maternal dietary diversity, breastfeeding, and infant and young child feeding. Lack of income, dependence on food purchasing, young mothers' feelings about breastfeeding, and cultural beliefs were drivers of this gap. Authors conclude that it is crucial to identify interventions to reduce breastfeeding burden and isolation, including paternal inclusion and the use of indigenous knowledge.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Research that draws causal inference, estimates the magnitude of impact, and identifies scalable behavioral interventions that engage fathers, grandmothers, and other family members to support mothers of infants and young children is limited. This research design found quantitative and qualitative evidence of positive impacts on nutrition practices, including breastfeeding, family members’ knowledge and awareness of recommended practices, and provision of support to mothers.
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Learning from country experiences implementing growth monitoring and promotion.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
This randomized control trial found that weekly home visits and mother-child group sessions, both of which included nutritional education, had an equal effect on cognition and language. Because of their lower per-child cost, group sessions are more scalable than home visits. This article is behind a paywall.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Research demonstrates that parental education and household resources have a greater impact on childhood cognition than birth weight and early linear growth. Improving children’s cognitive functioning requires multi-sectoral interventions to strengthen parental education and economic wellbeing.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
To mitigate the effects of COVID-19 on children and their caregivers, authors advocate for full financing and operationalization of service provision that transcends COVID-19 barriers and addresses health, social and child protection, economic protection, and child development. Recommended strategies include providing cash transfers and essential supplies to vulnerable households, strengthening community-based platforms for nurturing care, and conducting research on the social, mental, and physical health consequences of the pandemic.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
This report presents guidance on multi-domain developmental assessments, observation and screening for cerebral palsy, vision and hearing difficulties, and the integration of family and community factors in developmental counseling and monitoring. It also calls for services that support early childhood development to be organized according to the continuum of care, and for caregiver mental health.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
The toolkit provides materials for those seeking to advocate for increased attention to and investment in early childhood development include country profiles, case studies, examples of advocacy best practices, key messages, quotes that capture the critical elements of nurturing care, a detailed explanation of nurturing care, and answers to frequently asked questions.