USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
The Feeding and Disability Resource Bank is a repository of materials that help nutrition and disability program managers, government leaders, and donor agency staff design and implement effective nutrition programs for children with disabilities. Resources include manuals, job aids, training curricula, and assessment tools as well as research articles that provide programmatic tools. All resources are relevant to one of the following five sections of the resource bank—
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
USAID and USAID Advancing Nutrition curated the Food Systems Toolkit which is focused on a set of tools to support USAID Missions and partners in putting a food systems approach into action. The toolkit comprises resources that provide practical guidance on how to design, implement, and measure concrete activities that improve diets and nutrition through food systems. It includes resources developed by USAID and USAID Advancing Nutrition, as well as other organizations.
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
This toolkit presents 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
Many Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning (MEL) courses, developed by USAID and other organizations, are available to USAID Mission and project staff. The resources in this online M&E Course Repository, will help meet your current needs. You can also view all of USAID’s Global Health eLearning Center M&E-related courses in one place at this link.
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Children aged 6-23 months are most susceptible to malnutrition. Optimal complementary feeding is critical during this time to promote growth and cognitive development. At this age, children require breastmilk and safe and diverse foods to meet these nutritional needs. Even in stable contexts, this is a complex problem that requires multi-sectoral solutions—young children’s diets are determined by the foods, services, and care they receive.
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Women and children in complex emergencies are at high risk for malnutrition, poor health outcomes, and food insecurity. USAID Advancing Nutrition set out to better understand how nutrition-sensitive agriculture contributes to improved outcomes through research with two USAID activities, a qualitative and quantitative study in the Far North Region of Cameroon and a secondary data analysis in South Sudan.
From both of these studies we found that:
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
This brief explains what is meant by responsive feeding and how to create the enabling environments for caregivers to responsively feed their young children.
News and Features
USAID Advancing Nutrition supports multi-sectoral nutrition coordination efforts in Burkina Faso by organizing regional nutrition councils in the country’s Center-West region.
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
This manual introduces the Dietary Diversity and Determinants Survey, an adaptable, user-friendly instrument for collecting data on dietary diversity and key determinants of dietary diversity. The survey can be used to conduct situational analyses and baseline surveys; monitor changes in diet due to season, intervention, or shocks; and compare diets of different sub-populations. Survey results provide a snapshot of nutritional trends and gaps, which can inform programmatic decisions for greater nutritional impact in Title II and other food security programs.
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Raising awareness of and promoting the adoption and enforcement of food safety standards requires government agencies to collaborate closely.