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Quality pre-service training forms the foundation of all nutrition services, equipping health professionals with the competencies required to deliver quality services from day one on the job. However, nutrition content is often outdated and can be difficult to integrate into pre-service training.
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Competencies are critical to job performance and successful social and behavior change (SBC) nutrition interventions. The Social and Behavior Change Competency Assessment tool guides implementing partners of Resilience and Food Security Activities through a process of identifying existing SBC competencies of core staff and building a plan to strengthen and develop further skills. This tool also walks users though a 12-month skills-development plan and outlines a collaborative, step-by-step process for working with outside facilitators.
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USAID Advancing Nutrition supported the Ministry of Health in Mozambique to develop a first-of-its-kind, comprehensive supervision tool for nutrition services.
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Learn how our work strengthens global efforts to measure and address multiple micronutrient deficiencies.
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To increase USAID staff’s core knowledge of nutrition concepts, USAID and USAID Advancing Nutrition developed a course that would prepare them to respond to the increasing need to strategically integrate nutrition into programming as part of their current or future roles.
In project year (PY) four, USAID Advancing Nutrition collaborated with three U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) bureaus—the Bureau for Resilience and Food Security, the Bureau for Global Health, and the Bureau for Humanitarian Assistance—to develop and pilot the Nutrition Fundamentals Course.
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USAID Advancing Nutrition invests in pre-service training curricula, a critical, sustainable, and scalable approach to improving the nutrition-related competencies of health workers.
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Developing and testing a breastfeeding counseling mentorship program in Kenya.
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Ce guide a été conçu pour l'évaluation de nouveaux contextes et l'élaboration des recommandations adaptées à ces contextes visant à améliorer la consommation d'aliments riches en fer et en vitamine A en utilisant les ressources disponibles localement (les résultats comportementaux de cet exercice). Ce guide s'adresse principalement aux équipes de terrain qui mettent en œuvre des programmes multisectoriels avec des objectifs spécifiques d'amélioration de la nutrition et de la sécurité alimentaire pour les femmes et les enfants de 6 à 59 mois.
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This brief offers seven recommendations grounded in evidence for the feasibility and/or effectiveness of integrating responsive care and early learning into health and nutrition programs. The recommendations focus on the first 1,000 days (pregnancy through a child’s second birthday) and are accompanied by examples and relevant resources from USAID Advancing Nutrition’s work and other relevant implementers.
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This learning brief written by the USAID Advancing Nutrition East Africa team gives an overview of the Learning Network on Nutrition Surveillance (LeNNS), discusses the co-creation process, examines the lessons learned, and suggests a way forward for the network.