Job Posting
USAID-Advancing Nutrition, a technical assistance contract providing support to USAID, is seeking a consultant to assist in a food basket assessment for USAID's Office of Food for Peace.
Anemia Toolkit
This review summarizes the evidence regarding how helminths interact with host nutrition during the human life cycle.
Anemia Toolkit
This research instrument, which was developed by the Manoff Group for the USAID-funded MotherCare Project, was used in formative research for the Indramayu Project. One component of research tested ways to improve the existing iron supplementation program for pregnant women in this Indonesian region. The results were used to develop messages for counseling women and a social marketing campaign, train health workers and others delivering iron tablets, and identify and develop delivery mechanisms/strategies for the improved iron supplementation program.
Anemia Toolkit
This article provides a framework for understanding the population-specific epidemiology and pathophysiology of anemia globally. The authors used the systematic approach of the Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors 2013 study to elucidate levels and trends of anemia-related disability. The study includes estimates of prevalence and years lived with disability for mild, moderate, severe, and total anemia in 188 countries, 21 Global Burden of Disease regions, 20 age groups, and both sexes from 1990 to 2013.
Anemia Toolkit
This study presents estimates for mild, moderate, and severe anemia from 1990 to 2010 for 187 countries, both sexes, and 20 age groups. The authors performed cause-specific attribution to 17 conditions using data from the Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors 2010 study.
Adolescent Nutrition Resource Bank
This resource package provides training materials from a Training of Trainers on Adolescent Nutrition Counseling in Laos. It contains interactive activities for participants, including simulations and role-playing, and includes strategies for engaging with adolescents.
Anemia Toolkit
This is a review of the various anemia-control strategy components and how they may form a cohesive program.
News and Features
Nutrition programs tend to focus on mothers and overlook how other family members influence nutrition and caregiving during pregnancy and early childhood. There is considerable evidence that other family members, particularly fathers and grandmothers, have significant influence on food access, intra-household distribution of food, child feeding, and ultimately, over maternal nutrition and infant and young child feeding practices.
Job Posting
The USAID Advancing Nutrition Project Coordinator, Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning (MEL) position is open for recruitment from March 17 to April 1, 2021. The Project Coordinator, MEL will work to keep the MEL team organized and on deadline through day-to-day administrative support. The ideal candidate will be highly organized, have experience providing administrative support, able to learn new systems and processes quickly, and able to balance multiple tasks/activities and ad hoc requests at once.
Anemia Toolkit
This compilation consists of resources that have been developed to reduce iron deficiency anemia in women in Kenya.