USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
This four-page fact sheet summarizes ways that agriculture projects can maximize nutrition and food security for women, children, and other vulnerable groups. It offers examples of what works and what does not and recommends design strategies that can increase nutritional benefits.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Although health workers initially struggle with the responsibilities associated with integrating services, their planning, reporting, and service delivery improves after receiving technical assistance. Integration helps maintain a focus on both programs and complete infant and young child feeding counseling more regularly. Health workers report that it is easier to provide integrated services during facility-based sessions than outreach or mobile services.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Better evidence is urgently needed of effective approaches to engage youth in food systems. Strategies for involving youth in improving nutrition include providing them opportunities to engage at various points in food systems, increasing promotion of and access to healthy food options, encouraging youth to promote healthy nutrition-related behaviors on social media, and involving them in participatory decision-making processes.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Analyzing the impacts of COVID-19 on women and girls points to underlying gender inequities exacerbating health and nutrition outcomes in a crisis. It is essential to identify and advocate for more comprehensive upstream policies and programs to address such inequities.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Adding a health- and nutrition-related agency module to the project-level Women's Empowerment in Agriculture Index (pro-WEAI) produced seven distinct indicators. Using these indicators could strengthen the evidence base about how nutrition-sensitive agricultural development programs enhance women's empowerment to improve health and nutrition.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Results showed weak impacts of the Alive & Thrive social and behavior change communication intervention on early initiation of breastfeeding, exclusive breastfeeding, and minimum dietary diversity in Nigeria, but spillover of the intervention to the comparison group may have muted the results. Substantial in-group increases in infant and young child feeding practices from baseline to endline were likely due to the intervention.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
This guide provides insights on how to identify social and gender norms that influence dietary practices, to improve norm-responsive programming, and to monitor and measure shifts in norms. The guide includes worksheets and a social norms checklist.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
This toolkit introduces eight measures of caregiver resources that are relevant to the care of young children and nutrition outcomes. These include mental health, healthy stress levels, perceived physical health, safety and security, equitable gender attitudes, self-efficacy, social support, and time sufficiency.
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
Describes the project's work in 12 municipalities of Honduras to address nutrition challenges through a systems approach. USAID Advancing Nutrition aims to improve the quality of diets to reduce malnutrition in at least 10,000 households.
Disability Resource Bank
This checklist provides a package of essential actions required to ensure disability-inclusive nutrition humanitarian action.