Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Robust markets for digital financial services are emerging, but the lowest enrollment rates have been among women and refugees. A randomized trial of the Strengthening Host and Refugee Populations program in Ethiopia encouraged high-volume customers to refer other customers and receive a small bonus for doing so, leading to increased enrollment generally but not among women and refugees. A second trial provided inactive customers with small incentives to start using the system, leading to increased use among women but not among refugees.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
The author reviews current literature and examples of outcomes that may increase risk or vulnerability to climate change and discusses prevention strategies. Recommendations include addressing policy and market conditions that hinder resilient-adaptive practices in food systems and designing policies and programs to address the political, economic, and socio-cultural dimensions of climate change adaptation. This article is behind a paywall.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Using locally developed top-bar hives rather than traditional beehives increases annual honey production in Ethiopia by 40 percent, but development initiatives continue to overwhelmingly focus on traditional hives. This article is behind a paywall.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
These evidence-based tools and resources support chefs, food service operators, leaders in consumer packaged goods, and nutrition professionals in promoting and marketing bivalves and sea vegetables.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
This paper presents the process used to construct the first global food systems baseline to track changes and underscore the importance of food systems-specific monitoring and transformation agendas. While data are available for most domains, off-farm livelihoods, food loss and waste, and governance represent critical data gaps. Tracking indicators will contribute to data-driven food systems governance and increase accountability for achieving goals.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Webinar topics include operational effectiveness; resilience to shocks; climate change; addressing corruption, migration, and forced displacement; diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility; affirmative development; locally led development; and partnering for sustainability. This is a series of webinars.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
This report presents successful innovations, lessons learned, and important approaches to build and sustain momentum and global commitment to improve maternal and child survival.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
This interactive webpage discusses challenges related to addressing nutrition, including COVID-19, climate change, and conflict. It presents cost-effective and evidence-based solutions and tools for ending severe malnutrition, discusses the goals of the Global Malnutrition Prevention and Treatment Act, and highlights USAID MOMENTUM’s work in several countries.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Training helps health workers integrate malnutrition screening and treatment into comprehensive primary health care services, conduct home visits to follow up with children being treated for malnutrition, and provide nutrition services to pregnant and breastfeeding women to prevent further childhood malnutrition.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Analyses found that a package combining increased family planning services with basic emergency obstetric and newborn care produces the highest benefit-cost ratio. Authors estimate that this package will require an additional US$3.2 billion per year and will deliver benefits worth US$278 billion per year in avoided deaths and higher economic growth. For every $1 invested, an estimated $87 of the social and economic benefits are generated.