Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
The Global Scales for Early Development (GSED) provides a standardized, holistic method for measuring the development of children under age three at the population and programmatic level. The open-access package includes materials to support implementation and a technical report that summarizes the GSED, its validation methodology, and psychometric properties.
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In response to increased awareness of foodborne disease in developing countries, the Food and Nutrition Technical Assistance Project (FANTA) Project conducted a literature review to investigate how donors, partners, and programs can reduce this burden at the household level.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Speakers discuss how the COVID-19 pandemic, climate change, and other disruptions could prompt innovation and how applying systems thinking could help address longstanding challenges, such as scaling interventions, sustainability, and equity. This is a webinar.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
The handbook and guide provide practical guidance, training materials, tools, and examples for implementing the Nurturing Care Framework in various settings and strengthen advocacy and capacity strengthening efforts. This is a webinar.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
This book chapter examines how food security has been framed and addressed historically. The author stresses the importance of a food systems approach to addressing the increasingly complex dynamics that impact food security.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Analyses using a linear programming model in Tanzania found that the nutritional content of several supplemental food formulations based on the qualea bird's meat differed significantly. Authors recommend using this model to develop products to address malnutrition.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
The strategic shift from food aid to food assistance, including initiatives to increase local production and purchases and cash and voucher transfers, has the potential to address hunger more effectively.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
This study suggests research priorities to tackle malnutrition in school-age children and adolescents, including identifying the most effective delivery strategies to reach adolescents; exploring and improving existing interventions; the best way to package multi-sectoral programs, especially those focused on antenatal and postnatal care for pregnant adolescent girls; and establishing ways to reach vulnerable and underserved populations, including out-of-school adolescents.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
This review highlights the need for contextually appropriate, integrated, and multi-component school-based interventions to address all forms of malnutrition and improve education outcomes among adolescents.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Global acute malnutrition is growing due to the unaffordability of a diversified nutritious diet; conflict; population displacement; and reduced access to social services, farming land, and fodder. Governments need sustained support to develop social protection programs that target women and young children; strengthen partnerships to prevent and treat acute malnutrition among children; and promote climate-smart programs that reduce vulnerability to climate shocks and natural resource depletion.