Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Programmers, researchers, and policymakers discussed advances and opportunities in growth monitoring and promotion since the 2018 convening. Participants recommended creating an operational learning agenda, focusing on improving counseling, continuing to harness the power of technology, continuing discussions about how growth is measured, and holistically considering challenges with, and advantages of, different measurements.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
The Long Live India Digital Mission is creating a platform for longitudinal electronic health records for India. The system will establish national health identifications, a registry for facilities and providers, and national digital health records to improve patient care and outcomes.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Behavioral interventions had statistically significant positive effects on maternal mental health and breastfeeding and most showed a decrease in self-reported depression and/or anxiety symptoms in parallel with an increase in breastfeeding duration and/or exclusivity. Successful interventions shared the following characteristics: hospital staff or multidisciplinary teams delivered them, they were offered individually, they focused on breastfeeding and maternal mental health or on breastfeeding only, and they took place during pregnancy and postpartum.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Researchers found a significantly negative relationship between the Women's Empowerment in Agriculture Index score and maternal stress and depression. Self-efficacy and respect among household members were important drivers of this inverse relationship.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Behavioral factors can impede optimal complementary feeding—during and after illness. Findings point to how programs can equip community- and facility-based health workers with tools, messages, and other resources to guide and encourage families to feed children appropriately during illness and recovery.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Behavioral design guided the development of solutions that support families to continue feeding their young children during periods of illness and more food in the two weeks following an illness. Solutions also provide community- and facility-based health workers with resources and approaches to support families.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
This workbook introduces basic concepts of social and behavior change design; implementation; and monitoring, evaluation, and learning to improve complementary feeding practices.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
This guide shares resources and examples to design, implement, monitor, and adapt interventions to integrate gender into nutrition programming.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Reframing research and interventions to ensure that they reflect the structure, roles, and resources of indigenous cultures is critical. Global research and funding institutions should support more culturally grounded research and programs to increase their relevance, effectiveness, and impact.
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
This report describes a learning activity to 1) document the factors that promoted and/or hindered successful implementation of small-quantity lipid-based nutrient supplements (SQ-LNS) programs in highly food insecure contexts and 2) garner perspectives on considerations for scale-up. The activity found that partners implementing SQ-LNS programs in Honduras, Niger, and Somalia operated through different delivery strategies and in varying program contexts.