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Responsive care and early learning counseling content for use with child health and nutrition packages.
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Recent guidelines recommend involving fathers, grandmothers, and other family members in maternal and child nutrition programs, but there is a gap in understanding on how to implement such interventions. This systematic review—conducted in collaboration by Cornell University, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and USAID Advancing Nutrition—describes how program approaches aimed to achieve nutrition social and behavior change by increasing family support.
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
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USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
Nutrition programmers recognize that fathers, grandmothers, and other family members can have tremendous influence on decision-making and roles related to household purchasing, food allocation, and feeding practices. However, services and programs often focus on caregivers and place less emphasis on the critical role that family systems and family members play in improving nutritional outcomes. The growing body of evidence suggests the importance of engaging family members while also empowering and supporting caregivers.
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This report was produced by the USAID Advancing Nutrition Kyrgyzstan team. The main objective of this study was to collect evidence on gender roles and norms in areas in which the project operates and analyze possible shifts occurring as a result of project activities.
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De plus en plus de données avérées suggèrent que l'implication des hommes dans la nutrition est souvent associée à une amélioration de l'alimentation des nourrissons et des jeunes enfants, à des pratiques alimentaires maternelles, à une amélioration des relations de couple et à un renforcement de la prise de décision conjointe.Reconnaissant l'influence des hommes sur la NMNJE, les partenaires de mise en oeuvre de l'activité de sécurité alimentaire et de résilience « Resilience Food Security Activity (RFSA) » du Bureau pour l'assistance humanitaire « Bureau of Humanitarian Assistance (BHA) »
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Pour traiter les questions d’égalité de genre et d'autonomisation des femmes dans le domaine de la nutrition et l’agriculture, il est nécessaire de mettre l’accent sur la promotion du rôle des femmes en tant que productrices et consommatrices d'aliments variés et riches en nutriments, d’une part, et d’autre part en tant que personnes en charge de la nutrition et de la santé du ménage. Cela consiste d’abord à assurer la participation des femmes aux activités de formation sur la nutrition/santé, la communication et l’agriculture sensible à la nutrition.
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Recognizing contextual challenges with counseling that often go unaddressed (e.g., limited time, heavy workloads, practical integration of nurturing care), USAID Advancing Nutrition partnered with the Ghana Health Service to develop a job aid that streamlines workflow and helps health workers prioritize caregivers of children who are most at risk of malnutrition or developmental delays.
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This report for USAID Resilience Food Security Activity implementing partners presents 1) common approaches currently used for engaging men in maternal, infant, and young child nutrition programming, 2) findings from the literature and key informant interviews about barriers, and 3) the key considerations for the design, implementation, monitoring, and sustainability of male engagement activities to minimize the risk of engagement while ensuring women’s agency and safety.
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The Minimum Dietary Diversity (MDD) indicator for children is a simple population-level assessment method for tracking diet quality among children 6–23 month of age. It is defined as the proportion of children 6–23 months of age who receive foods from at least 5 out of 8 defined food groups and is positively associated with dietary micronutrient adequacy and linear growth in young children.