The Kenya Ministry of Health Division of Family Health, Wellness, and Nutrition; implementing partners; and USAID Advancing Nutrition co-created a breastfeeding counseling mentorship program to reinforce and build the competencies required by health workers to implement the Ten Steps at health facilities offering maternal and newborn services. Key learning is included in this brief. 

This brief provides practical information about how to assess nutrition training programs, utilizing best practices from the capacity strengthening field to create more effective and efficient programs.

USAID Mission and project staff can use this repository to search for monitoring, evaluation, and learning courses that meet their specific needs.

This guide helps practitioners gather food group consumption data using a standardized, easy-to-use tool that takes five minutes to administer. Consumption data can be assessed at national and global levels.

Nutrition project managers and ministries of health can use this list as a starting point for assessing, developing, and evaluating community health workers’ social and behavior change skills. Also available in French.

This tool presents a comprehensive set of nutrition competencies to assist stakeholders in revising existing pre-service training curricula for nurses that can be used to review and update curricula with current, evidence-based nutrition content. 

This tool defines important social and behavior change competencies for staff working on nutrition programs. This information can help identify skill gaps across teams, guide hiring decisions, identify areas for capacity strengthening, and track changes in performance over time to strengthen both planning and implementation. Also available in French.

This guide provides materials needed to facilitate nutrition-sensitive agriculture design workshops. Also available in French.