Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
USAID is committed to partnerships and encourages local actors from all backgrounds and cultures to exercise their unique capabilities and lead their country’s development.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
The Africa Localization Initiative will direct 25 percent of USAID’s program budget to local organizations based in sub-Saharan Africa. To ensure more equitable and sustainable development outcomes, communities will lead program design, implementation, or evaluation for at least 50 percent of programming.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
The panel discussed research findings and explored how donors, policymakers, and practitioners can strengthen informal support networks to build resilience in communities vulnerable to crises.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Suboptimal early breastfeeding practices, delayed introduction of complementary foods, inadequate dietary diversity, low animal-source food consumption, and inadequate early stimulation and responsive caregiving are common in Nepal. Younger children from poor households with young mothers are at particular risk for poor feeding and caregiving practices.
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
Zambia’s Ministry of Health, National HIV/AIDS/STI/TB Council, and National Food and Nutrition Commission worked with the Food and Nutrition Technical Assistance Project (FANTA) and other partners to update its guidelines on providing health care for people living with HIV so they reflect updated global and national standards. The guidelines are the basis for all nutrition assessment counseling support activities in Zambia and serve as a reference for all partners involved in nutrition support for people living with HIV.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Prevalence estimates using functional approach or statistical modeling are comparable and complementary but they require greater alignment of age groups and severity thresholds, especially for children under five.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
The Washington Group Child Functioning Module (WGCFM) showed concurrent validity with the Malawi Developmental Assessment Tool (MDAT). For each unit increase in the WGCFM score, children completed 2.6 fewer MDAT items.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Caregivers prioritized provider counseling, family and community support, and food safety knowledge and practice as important for responsive feeding (RF) and parenting. Providers stressed the need to integrate RF into maternal, infant, and young child nutrition training and counseling, and provide facilities with RF tools and materials.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Resource Bank materials help nutrition and disability program managers, government leaders, and donor agency staff design and implement effective nutrition programs for children with disabilities. Information focuses on identifying and managing feeding difficulties, identifying disabilities, supporting children with disabilities and their families, and promoting disability inclusion.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
The Caring for the Caregiver course helps frontline workers promote caregivers' mental health and emotional well-being by addressing barriers to resources and encouraging self-care and partner and family engagement.