Nawiri Study
Women, men, adolescents, and youth live within complex social systems that dictate their differential roles and responsibilities, vulnerabilities and capacities, relationships, and power dynamics and influence nutrition outcomes across their life.
Nawiri Study
During Phase 1 of the program, USAID Nawiri conducted a household economy analysis (HEA) baseline study. HEA is a livelihoods-based framework that enables analysis of the ways different households access the things they need to survive and prosper.
Nawiri Study
Milk has been integral to pastoralist nutrition for centuries, and its importance to child health is well established. USAID Nawiri conducted this study to identify practical approaches to extend dry season lactation in milking animals and increase the availability of milk.
Nawiri Study
The cost of diet studies looked at what nutritious foods are locally available in the market to inform strategies for improving food production, availability, & access.
Nawiri Study
Poverty graduation is one of the core pillars of USAID Nawiri’s resilient livelihoods for nutrition security strategy. It uses a time-bound and carefully sequenced package of multi-sector interventions to lift the poorest and most vulnerable households out of poverty.
Nawiri Study
Prior to USAID Nawiri, there was limited evidence from Samburu and Turkana on institutional, structural, and local bottlenecks to establishing a more resilient community health system.
Nawiri Study
USAID Nawiri continuously questions its assumptions about how and by whom things should be done, and challenges its partners to do the same.
Nawiri Study
Systems strengthening is a key part of USAID Nawiri’s approach to reducing persistent acute malnutrition. The program works within and alongside key government and USAID-supported platforms to facilitate government ownership.
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
In Malawi, the Food and Nutrition Technical Assistance Project (FANTA) collaborated with the U.S. Agency for International Development Office of Food for Peace and Project Concern International on qualitative formative research to help the Njira Project explore ways to integrate family planning into its nutrition and food security programming. The study investigated the demand- and supply-side barriers to accessing family planning that women with young children, adolescent girls, and young women face.
News and Features
With the one year anniversary of the conflict in Ukraine, I have been reflecting on the three Cs threatening progress in mitigating hunger, food security, and undernutrition.