Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Men's nutrition knowledge has significant, positive, and additive associations with households', children's, and women's dietary diversity. Research exploring how nutrition knowledge is gendered and how to engage men in programming may lead to better nutrition outcomes.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Practitioners must find new ways to engage families and communities while following physical distancing guidelines and may need to adapt messaging and calls to action to acknowledge the reality of people’s daily lives. While some messaging will remain the same, some may require changes to address people’s emotional states, country contexts, available services, and local government responses.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Are patients in the emergency department more satisfied during a visit if the provider sits and are there ways to encourage providers to sit? These are the question researchers sought to answer in a prospective, controlled pre-post trial.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
This guide focuses on training frontline workers to promote behavior change related to water, sanitation, and hygiene, agriculture, and livelihoods. The highly participatory training includes lessons on effective communication, facilitation, negotiation, social and behavior change, action planning, quality improvement, and giving and receiving feedback. A video introduction to the training guide is available in English, French, and Amharic.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Misinformation has led to unnecessary separation of infants and mothers with suspected or confirmed COVID-19 infection during delivery and breastfeeding. It has also led to mistrust of the health care system, delayed care-seeking of nutrition services, and limited uptake of COVID-19 preventive practices. Social and behavior change strategies to combat misinformation include having trusted authorities provide consistent communication with current information and thoughtful responses to misinformation, and building media literacy.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
A Learning and Sharing “Café”: IYCF Programming Adaptations in the Context of COVID-19 – Second Cafe
This platform encourages countries to share lessons learned and experiences with adapting infant and young child feeding (IYCF) programs during COVID-19. It provides videos on breastfeeding and complementary feeding, social media content on IYCF, a detailed review of counseling packages for IYCF, and materials focusing on feeding when COVID is suspected or confirmed. Materials are available in French, Spanish, Arabic, Portuguese, and English.
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USAID Advancing Nutrition has funding available through USAID’s New Partnerships Initiative (NPI).
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
USAID Advancing Nutrition has funding available through the New Partnerships Initiative (NPI) to support organizations to implement multi-sectoral nutrition projects in USAID global health priority countries. Learn more about how to access grants under contract and technical assistance available to new local and underutilized partners and locally established partners in USAID global health priority countries.
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While breastfeeding is a natural process with proven benefits, it is not always widely practiced in the Kyrgyz Republic. Global recommendations suggest that children under 6 months should be exclusively breastfed, but only 46 percent of infants in the Kyrgyz Republic meet this standard, according to the 2018 Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey (PDF, 9.56 MB).
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Despite the many health benefits of breastfeeding for women and children, around the world, only 44% of infants are breastfed exclusively for six months. Social support is a key factor in achieving high rates of breastfeeding, whether that is through partners, grandmothers, mother-in-laws, or employers. Altrena Mukuria, Dr.P.H., is an expert in the field of nutrition and a breastfeeding champion with 40 years of experience working in diverse contexts. As a specialist in infant and young child nutrition, Dr.