USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
This report reviews the social and behavior change (SBC) methods and approaches used in 11 programs carried out by the Office of Food for Peace. It includes a description of the fundamentals of SBC theory and practice, current consensus on SBC global best practices, SBC approaches used by current and recent developmet food security activities and how well they are aligned with best practices, strengths and weaknesses in implementation, and recommendations for the Office of Food for Peace to improve the impact of SBC in their work.
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
The aim of these lessons is to build awareness, facilitate critical reflective dialogue, and explore potential action to improve gender equity and diversity among development staff and community members, and to identify gender equity and diversity linkages within social and behavior change interventions to increase their effectiveness.
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
The purpose of this toolkit is to provide research questions to guide data collection when performing a project-level gender analysis. The tool presents illustrative general and health area-specific questions organized in matrices related to different levels of the health system.
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
This guide summarizes research on the intersection of gender and wild-caught fisheries, exploring the ways in which fisheries offer important entry points to enhance gender equality and women’s economic empowerment while also contributing to more effective interventions and more sustainable outcomes.
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
This literature review was conducted to identify barriers to food choice and consumption during pregnancy and lactation and to examine how low‐ and middle‐income countries have addressed maternal nutrition in programs. It included a review of peer‐reviewed and gray literature and titles and abstracts reviewed by authors. Twenty‐three studies were included in this review.
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
This brief presents a summary of a literature review of barriers to maternal nutrition and weight gain during pregnancy in low- and middle-income countries. The brief presents a compilation of country policies that address maternal diet and weight gain during pregnancy, and provides key considerations for inclusion of maternal nutrition and weight gain during pregnancy into program design and implementation.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
How significantly do maternal depression and anxiety affect early childhood development in food-insecure households? The authors of this study found that infants who have depressed mothers living in mildly and moderately food-insecure households were more likely to experience early childhood development delays compared to their counterparts in food-secure households. Having a mother with both depression and anxiety increased that likelihood further.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Caregivers and health care workers caring for children through the current pandemic can listen to this series of podcasts on child development for advice and support. The podcasts cover a range of topics on how best to protect child development in the context of COVID-19, including the importance of caregiver mental health, how children can safely receive care from their pediatrician, and how to mitigate the effects on children as the virus disproportionately affects communities of color.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Panelists from the International Rescue Committee, USAID, and PATH participated in a webinar to explain how their organizations incorporate the Nurturing Care Framework into humanitarian settings, nutrition programs, and the health sector. They discuss their organizations’ interaction with the framework in several countries, the challenges they face, the gaps they are addressing, the gaps that remain, and how COVID-19 has affected or altered their work.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
In this report, Investing in Rural People and Biodiversity International provides an operational framework to help Investing in Rural People project development teams integrate neglected and underutilized species into their activities.