Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
In this blog post, economist Alaka Holla walks through the preliminary considerations and challenges of collecting cost data.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
The authors collected and analyzed research methodologies from 114 studies of programs that used specialized foods to influence anthropometric outcomes. The analysis identified elements of the methodologies that can be strengthened to develop a more rigorous evidence base. The authors found research bias, heterogeneous study design, and insufficiently reported study details as barriers to robust evidence.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
In this monthly online learning series from 1,000 Days, subject-matter experts present the latest evidence on severe acute malnutrition. The series is designed to help non-technical audiences inform severe malnutrition policies and advocacy campaigns. Session topics include wasting, breastfeeding, and vitamin A supplementation, among others.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Panelists in this webinar shared how they selected and/or modified experience-based food security metrics for inclusion in household assessments carried out through mobile phones or online platforms. The assessments took place in India, Nepal, the U.S., and on a global level and covered mobile surveying, program monitoring by community health workers, and Mobile Vulnerability Analysis & Mapping Program metrics.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Bringing together development and emergency activity implementers through a peer-to-peer learning series, IDEAL seeks to foster an engaging environment for sharing challenges and strategies for adapting programming during the COVID-19 pandemic. The series centers on the following five learning streams: monitoring and evaluation; strategic management; online collaboration; cash, voucher, and food distribution; and addressing at-risk populations.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
In April, USAID nutrition leadership came together to discuss ongoing global challenges facing the nutrition sector. Presenters provided insight into how USAID might adapt and prioritize activities in response to COVID-19. They also shared potential actions for mitigating the impacts of the pandemic on food security, health systems, assistance, and other related programming.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
With a focus on promoting equality in food and health systems, this year’s report calls on governments, businesses, and civil society to act now to mainstream nutrition into food and health systems. It examines the causes of nutrition inequalities, identifying insufficient deployment of resources; inadequate implementation of policies, programs, and interventions; and lack of coordination across sectors. The authors suggest that improving data and using multi-sectoral efforts are important actions.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Protecting, promoting, and supporting proper infant and young child feeding practices is especially important in emergency contexts with higher rates of child mortality and acute malnutrition. This tool uses six priority areas to guide governments and their partners in assessing and improving their infant and young child feeding in emergencies programming.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
During growth monitoring and promotion, health care workers are meant to provide vital, individualized nutrition and growth counseling to suit each child’s needs. However, too often counseling by frontline workers is inadequate, generic, or even non-existent. This brief includes suggestions and tools that can: 1) help health care workers visualize growth, 2) guide counseling, 3) improve counseling content, and 4) improve worker performance of promotion activities.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Responding to the high rate of child undernutrition in Ethiopia, this study analyzed data from Ethiopia’s 2016 Demographic and Health Survey to identify factors associated with undernutrition, including maternal education, source of drinking water, anemic status of the child, and others.