News and Features
Infant and young child feeding programming adapts to safeguard nutrition gains in the face of COVID-19.
Job Posting
The USAID Advancing Nutrition Technical Advisor, Food Systems position is open for recruitment from October 27 to November 10, 2020. The Advisor will sit on the Food Systems team and is responsible for ensuring high quality design and implementation of the USAID Advancing Nutrition portfolio of interventions to strengthen food systems for healthier diets.
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
Sustainable financing for nutrition often occurs when nutrition activities and investments are incorporated into government-managed budgets and backed by predictable financing from domestic revenues. This guidance provides recommendations for USAID to establish practices to improve the long-term sustainability of USAID nutrition programming by transitioning to domestic plans and resources.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
To understand individual, social, and environmental factors that influence eating behaviors of adolescent females in Bangladesh, researchers conducted this qualitative study, which found that household food insecurity, gender norms and discrimination, work and school schedules, and an inferior social position influence girls' level of psychological stress as well as food quality, quantity, and frequency.
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
To date, there has been limited integration of responsive care and early learning in health and nutrition services. The Nurturing Care Framework provides guidance to help children and families thrive through care for the individual child within a broader enabling environment of capable caregivers, empowered communities, supportive services, and enabling policies (WHO 2018). This profile compiles national data alongside information on national policies and programs to highlight both the needs and opportunities for promoting optimal child development in Kenya.
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
To date, there has been limited integration of responsive care and early learning in health and nutrition services. The Nurturing Care Framework provides guidance to help children and families thrive through care for the individual child within a broader enabling environment of capable caregivers, empowered communities, supportive services, and enabling policies (WHO 2018). This profile compiles national data alongside information on national policies and programs to highlight both the needs and opportunities for promoting optimal child development in Rwanda.
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
To date, there has been limited integration of responsive care and early learning in health and nutrition services. The Nurturing Care Framework provides guidance to help children and families thrive through care for the individual child within a broader enabling environment of capable caregivers, empowered communities, supportive services, and enabling policies (WHO 2018). This profile compiles national data alongside information on national policies and programs to highlight both the needs and opportunities for promoting optimal child development in Uganda.
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
This guidance translates research findings into practical recommendations for interventions that effectively engage family members in the care and feeding of children. You will find recommendations for engaging family members at key points in the program cycle in ways that support mothers and other primary caregivers and avoid negative consequences.
News and Features
Project shared evidence and learning at the Micronutrient Forum 5th Global Conference.
Adolescence is a critical time in the life cycle, presenting what is sometimes called a "second window of opportunity" in an individual’s growth and development. Additionally, adolescents increasingly exercise their agency and make important decisions related to their diet, eating, and self-care practices.