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This guide aims to support RFSA IPs’ transition from providing resource transfers to using locally available, accessible, and affordable alternatives to sustain nutrition outcomes for women and children under age two. It provides resources, workbooks, templates, and tools with instructions on how to optimize the use of local foods to improve women and children’s nutrition and dietary diversity in a given program area.
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The Optimizing Local Diets Tool helps to facilitate dialogue with a multi-disciplinary team and identify locally available, nutrient-dense foods to use in programming.
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This guide presents a stepwise process for a Resilience Food Security Activity (RFSA) team to apply. It starts by undertaking a contextual analysis to ensure the RFSA team has a sound understanding of the local context and taking into consideration whether and how a program aims to improve nutrition outcomes for children aged 6–23 months and the dietary diversity of women of reproductive age, or households.
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Shared decision making about how to spend family income is critical to prioritizing a diverse diets
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The Market Pathway requires engagement with local private sector entities (e.g., small and medium enterprises [SMEs]).This video provides instructions using illustrative examples on how to use the Business Model Calculator that is part of the Market Driven Pathway of the guide for Optimizing Diets by Using Local Foods for Improved Nutrition for Women and Children.
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The Household Pathway, involves reviewing existing data, collecting primary data on current dietary practices for children under age two, and developing and testing FBRs using local foods to promote in a given program area.After downloading the materials, you can return to the full guide.
USAID Advancing Nutrition was the Agency’s flagship multi-sectoral nutrition project from 2018-2023, led by JSI Research & Training Institute, Inc. (JSI), and a diverse group of experienced partners.
The spotlights feature research and tools from USAID and USAID Advancing Nutrition that can help you adopt proven approaches to reduce malnutrition.
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The Baby-Friendly Hospital Initiative (BFHI) was launched by the World Health Organization and UNICEF over 30 years ago to encourage facilities providing maternity and newborn services to implement the Ten Steps to successful breastfeeding. These evidenced-based practices have been shown to increase breastfeeding initiation and duration. Step 2 of the Ten Steps, staff competency, highlights the importance of ensuring staff have sufficient knowledge, competence, and skill to support breastfeeding.
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This video highlights the accomplishments of the USAID Advancing Nutrition Kyrgyz