Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Developmental Evaluation (DE) seeks to improve programs by strengthening innovation and adaptation. The COVID-19 pandemic has forced a shift from embedding evaluators to engaging remotely. This guide captures broadly applicable learnings and methods for successfully implementing remote DEs. This is a webinar.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Three new papers build upon findings from the 2008 and 2013 Series. They conclude that despite modest progress, maternal and child undernutrition remains a major global health concern. Previously highlighted interventions, especially those delivered within the first 1,000 days of life, effectively reduce stunting, micronutrient deficiencies, and child deaths, but program delivery has lagged behind the science and greater financing is needed to scale up proven interventions.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Community volunteers specializing in maternal, newborn, and child health, water, sanitation, and hygiene activities, and agriculture are an effective workforce to improve individual knowledge, attitudes, and practices that result in better nutrition and improve the dietary diversity of women and children.
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
The SPRING Nutrition-Sensitive Agriculture Training Resource Package is a collection of our very best training work, including presentations, activities, handouts, and session guides. In this training resource package, you will find the building blocks for creating a nutrition-sensitive agriculture presentation or training program that reaches program leaders, managers, and other decision-makers
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Presenters provide an overview of adolescent nutrition status across seven global regions, discuss how adolescents experience nutrition across the world, and present youth-led solutions to improve nutrition in Indonesia.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Social norms and cultural beliefs can be influential barriers or facilitators for adopting improved complementary feeding (CF) practices, but guidance to address norms and beliefs is limited. Evidence suggests that addressing social norms through effective, multifaceted, and culturally relevant interventions including community engagement and mass media is a feasible and effective component of programs to improve CF practices.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Grandmothers play important roles in newborn care. Grounding newborn research and interventions within a family systems framework that reflects local family structures and dynamics may be more influential in saving lives than strengthening health systems.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
This brief discusses hospital best practices to encourage breastfeeding and ensure lactation success for COVID-19 infected mothers and their newborns. It also addresses whether COVID-19 can be passed from mother to infant at delivery, whether rooming-in and breastfeeding with an infected mother are safe, and whether it is safe to use donor milk during the pandemic.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Training and supporting materials prepare participants to identify key gender concepts, describe why gender analysis is important, explain how to conduct a gender analysis, and complete a gender integration action plan.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
While social and behavior change program implementers may be aware that social norms are powerful influencers of behaviors and outcomes, many are unsure about how to integrate social norms-shifting programming into program design. The Getting Practical: Integrating Social Norms into Social and Behavior Change Programs tool was developed for country-level program planners, designers, and monitoring and research staff to address gaps between formative social norms research and other phases of the program design cycle to allow for adaptive programming. This is a webinar.