USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
The 2020 UNICEF report titled "Improving Young Children’s Diets during the Complementary Feeding Period" provides an Action Framework to improve the diets of children 6–23 months of age. This report is one of four case studies that use the Action Framework as a tool to examine the efforts in emergency contexts to support complementary feeding. Lessons from this case study provide examples, for both country-level practitioners and global-level decision makers, of program interventions and policies to support complementary feeding in emergencies.
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
The 2020 UNICEF report titled "Improving Young Children’s Diets during the Complementary Feeding Period" provides an Action Framework to improve the diets of children 6–23 months of age. This report is one of four case studies that use the Action Framework as a tool to examine the efforts in emergency contexts to support complementary feeding. Lessons from this case study provide examples, for both country-level practitioners and global-level decision makers, of program interventions and policies to support complementary feeding in emergencies.
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Access learning and tools to help improve nutritional care for children with feeding difficulties and children with disabilities.
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
This report from the USAID Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene Partnerships and Learning for Sustainability (WASHPaLS) project summarizes a review of the scientific and gray literature, as well as key informant interviews with researchers and field implementers.
Project Leadership
Ann has led the capacity strengthening work at USAID Advancing Nutrition since 2019, working to strengthen approaches to strategic planning, organizational development, learning networks, mentoring and training.
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
The Government of the Republic of Mozambique (GRM) has made reducing malnutrition one of its key economic and health priorities. Despite recent decades of impressive economic growth and investments in food security and nutrition, the prevalence of malnutrition has remained high, with 38 percent stunting and 6 percent wasting among children under five years of age (MISAU, INE, and ICFI 2011). Among the country’s 11 provinces, Nampula has the highest population and is economically important because of agricultural productivity and its positioning as a transportation corridor.
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Estimating the prevalence of anemia in populations depends on accurate and precise measurement of hemoglobin (Hb) concentration from blood samples.
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Optimal dietary intake is pivotal for children's growth and development. Minimum Dietary Diversity (MDD) is a widely-used indicator that assesses one measure of diet quality among infants and young children aged 6-23 months, and is one of the standard infant and young child feeding (IYCF) indicators in the Global Nutrition Monitoring Framework. Dietary data has historically been collected through one of two 24-hour recall methods: list-based and open recall (with multiple pass).
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USAID Advancing Nutrition supported a series of workshops in Nigeria to analyze results data that will guide evidence-based policy and programmatic interventions.
Project Leadership
Filipe Zano holds a Doctoral degree (Ph.D) in Health and Nutrition Projects, an International Master in Nutrition and Dietetics with specialty in IYCF and a graduation in agronomy engineering. Zano has a working experience of about 23 years in different fields namely, food security, nutrition, SRHRs, WASH, education, agriculture and sponsorship. Fifteen years out of the twenty-three he served as a coordinator and project implementer.