What We Do | USAID Advancing Nutrition

USAID Advancing Nutrition draws together global nutrition experience to design, implement, and evaluate programs that address the root causes of malnutrition. Working across and through varied sectors, we provide technical support to and implementation of nutrition interventions for USAID and its partners to address the root causes of malnutrition. We also provide technical assistance to USAID to support the implementation of the Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Strategy 2014-2025 in the many countries where USAID works.

Explore our Technical Area Spotlights featuring research and tools from USAID and USAID Advancing Nutrition that can help you adopt proven approaches to reduce malnutrition.

Our Focus Areas

Capacity Strengthening

Early Childhood Development

Food Systems

Knowledge Management

Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning

Nutrition and Health Systems

Nutrition in Humanitarian Contexts

Social and Behavior Change and Gender

Activities

Browse a selection of 4 activities from our Focus Area technical teams.

Group photo of women outside, in front of a building.

Promoting Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture to Improve Nutrition in India

Food Systems Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment

USAID Advancing Nutrition is supporting the scale-up of gender transformative activities in nutrition-sensitive agriculture to empower women, increase incomes, and improve nutrition.

Photo of a woman picking greens in her vegetable garden.

Using Human-Centered Design Research Methods to Inform Social and Behavior Change Activities

Social and Behavior Change and Gender Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment

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…

Female producer and her husband implement agricultural productivity lessons learned from the horticulture trainings in their garden, as they tend to said garden

Spurring Agricultural Productivity for Improved Nutrition in India

Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment

Jumping back from COVID-19, USAID Advancing Nutrition implements nutrition-sensitive agriculture activities to improve incomes, women’s empowerment, and consumption of healthy diets.

USAID Advancing Nutrition local implementer SeSTA supports community cadres to facilitate a training on nutrition-sensitive agriculture which is held outdoors and the participants sit around in a big circle, listening to the instructor.

Empowering Local Stakeholders to Implement Nutrition-Sensitive Agriculture Activities

Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment

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