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 94 activities from our Focus Area technical teams.

Nutrition-Sensitive Agricultural Interventions in Complex Emergencies

Food Systems Nutrition in Humanitarian Contexts Improving Women and Children’s Diets in Emergency Contexts

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…

Complementary Feeding in Emergencies

Nutrition in Humanitarian Contexts Improving Women and Children’s Diets in Emergency Contexts

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…

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.

Building the Evidence Base for the Management of Moderate Wasting Using Local Foods

Wasting Treatment and Prevention

Learn about approaches to manage children with moderate wasting using local foods in the absence of targeted supplementary feeding programs or specially formulated foods.