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Improving Women and Children’s Diets in Emergency and Non-Emergency Contexts

Women and children are especially vulnerable in emergency settings resulting from natural disaster, conflict, or other complex challenges.
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Wasting Treatment and Prevention

Wasting is an acute and life-threatening form of malnutrition. The United Nations estimates that of the 45 million children under the age of five who are wasted, 13 million are severely wasted.
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Building the Evidence Base for the Management of Moderate Wasting Using Local Foods

Learn about approaches to manage children with moderate wasting using local foods in the absence of targeted supplementary feeding programs or specially formulated foods.
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Empowering Local Stakeholders to Implement Nutrition-Sensitive Agriculture Activities

USAID Advancing Nutrition is supporting Seven Sisters Development Assistance in Assam, India to implement nutrition-sensitive agriculture activities to improve household nutrition.
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Spurring Agricultural Productivity for Improved Nutrition in India

Jumping back from COVID-19, USAID Advancing Nutrition implements nutrition-sensitive agriculture activities to improve incomes, women’s empowerment, and consumption of healthy diets.
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Using Human-Centered Design Research Methods to Inform Social and Behavior Change Activities

USAID Advancing Nutrition implements social and behavior change (SBC) formative research, using human-centered design approaches to identify priority behaviors and design solutions to improve household nutrition and empower rural women in rural Assam, India.
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Adolescent Nutrition Resource Bank (Resource Collection)

Adolescence is a critical time in the life cycle, presenting what is sometimes called a "second window of opportunity" in an individual’s growth and development. Additionally, adolescents increasingly exercise their agency and make important decisions related to their diet, eating, and self-care practices. The Adolescent Nutrition Resource Bank includes over 400 searchable resources organized by the following program areas—
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Core Competency Series Booklet

This series (in a combined booklet) contains core competency lists for technical areas and positions. It intends to provide hiring managers, program managers, and program staff with explanations of the basic skills and knowledge senior technical staff may possess to carry out their positions effectively.
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Anemia Toolkit (Resource Collection)

Anemia is a global public health problem imposing a health burden on individuals at different life stages. This searchable toolkit includes over 100 resources organized into five sections related to anemia— Biology Assessment Interventions Policies and Programs Anemia Landscape
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Diet Assessment Decision Tool (Resource Collection)

This tool makes it easier for practitioners and decision makers to understand dietary patterns and nutrient intake. Such information is critical to design, monitor, and evaluate efforts to improve diets. The decision tool provides existing data sources and data collection tools related to the different target groups and diet questions below. The tools provide information on diets of five target groups—