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Responsive Care and Early Learning (RCEL) Addendum Resource Collection
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Responsive Care and Early Learning (RCEL) Addendum Resource Collection

The RCEL Addendum is a global package that gives programs the flexibility to adapt the materials to different country contexts and audiences by adjusting the content and delivery modalities. It can be added or integrated into existing child health, nutrition, or infant and young child feeding (IYCF) counseling packages, including UNICEF’s Community Infant and Young Child Feeding (C-IYCF) Counselling Package, which is the model for the RCEL Addendum.

Last modified: January 2, 2024

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Source: USAID Advancing Nutrition

Year of Publication: 2023

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Working Within the Food System: Gender Considerations for Achieving Improved Diets
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Working Within the Food System: Gender Considerations for Achieving Improved Diets

Investments should enhance women’s roles in agriculture and off-farm livelihoods; provide workplace support to offset risks to household nutrition; and ensure opportunities for income generation, decision-making, and control over household income. Investments should also increase access to high-quality social and behavior change activities, and engage men and boys to address gender norms that restrict food system participation.

The brief suggests how to take evidence-based actions that consider gender when designing and implementing approaches to improve diets for all through the food system. It offers ideas across the food system for promoting gender equality while improving diets. The brief reinforces the importance of considering the programming context to prioritize actions that address barriers and support practices most likely to impact diet and nutrition outcomes.

Last modified: January 2, 2024

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Source: USAID Advancing Nutrition

Year of Publication: 2022

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Needs Assessment and Design Methodology to Guide Large-Scale Food Fortification and Broader Programming to Improve Diets: Tools 1 and 2 in the LSFF Methodology Series
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Needs Assessment and Design Methodology to Guide Large-Scale Food Fortification and Broader Programming to Improve Diets: Tools 1 and 2 in the LSFF Methodology Series

The LSFF Operational Overview describes the purpose and target audience for tools to assess diets, markets, and diet cost and affordability, and summarizes the key steps in the methodology, including a decision tree on how to select existing data to conduct a needs assessment and design/redesign LSFF and broader programming. The Methods Guide describes the “how” of each step in the methodology. The Operational Overview and Methods Guide complement the USAID Large-Scale Food Fortification Programming Guide and results framework by providing methods to use existing data to better understand the contribution of LSFF programs to improve micronutrient intake, and ultimately, to help achieve the strategic objective and intermediate results in the USAID LSFF results framework.

Last modified: January 2, 2024

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Source: USAID Advancing Nutrition

Year of Publication: 2023

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Methods, Tools, and Metrics for Evaluating Market Food Environments in Low- and Middle-Income Countries
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Methods, Tools, and Metrics for Evaluating Market Food Environments in Low- and Middle-Income Countries

With the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) Bureau for Resilience and Food Security, USAID Advancing Nutrition conducted a series of activities to identify assessments (methods, tools, and metrics) suitable for food environments in LMICs. This report presents findings from three activities—a landscape assessment, a ranking exercise, and a survey—that led to a priority list of methods, tools, and metrics for evaluating informal and formal market food environments in LMICs. The report links to a Supplementary Table of the methods, tools, and metrics reviewed.

Last modified: January 2, 2024

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Source: USAID Advancing Nutrition

Year of Publication: 2021

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Generating Demand for Healthy Diets: A Guide to Social Marketing in Nutrition
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Generating Demand for Healthy Diets: A Guide to Social Marketing in Nutrition

This guide supports nutrition program planners by defining, describing, and explaining the process of developing high-quality programs to market healthy diets. This knowledge enables teams to make informed marketing decisions, create strong marketing campaigns, and diagnose and solve marketing challenges. The guide is grounded in real-world experiences. It combines social and commercial marketing best practices with firsthand experience—challenges and solutions—from partners who are actively working to improve nutrition outcomes by creating demand for healthy diets.

Last modified: January 1, 2024

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Source: USAID Advancing Nutrition

Year of Publication: 2023

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Feeding and Disability Resource Bank
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Feeding and Disability Resource Bank

The Feeding and Disability Resource Bank is a repository of materials that help nutrition and disability program managers, government leaders, and donor agency staff design and implement effective nutrition programs for children with disabilities. According to the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD), children with disabilities include those with, “long-term physical, mental, intellectual, or sensory impairments, and who may experience barriers that may hinder their full and effective participation in society on an equal basis with others.”

Last modified: January 1, 2024

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Source: USAID Advancing Nutrition

Year of Publication: 2022

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Country Profiles Aim to Advance Nurturing Care for Improved Early Childhood Development
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Country Profiles Aim to Advance Nurturing Care for Improved Early Childhood Development

Early childhood is a critical stage of human development, and policy makers need information on gaps and opportunities in programming within countries. USAID Advancing Nutrition has released country profiles for Bangladesh, Cambodia, Ethiopia, Kenya, Kyrgyz Republic, Rwanda, and Uganda. These profiles are the first in a series of publications that gather and present country-level data, policies, and programs focused on improving nutrition and early childhood development outcomes through the provision of nurturing care. The country profiles serve as a light touch landscape analysis compiling national data on nurturing care and early childhood development (ECD) alongside information on national policies and programs to help identify the needs and opportunities for promoting optimal child development.

Last modified: January 1, 2024

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Source: USAID Advancing Nutrition

Year of Publication: 2021

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Tool and Guide for Reviewing the Nutrition Content of Pre-Service Training Curricula
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Tool and Guide for Reviewing the Nutrition Content of Pre-Service Training Curricula

Quality pre-service training forms the foundation of all nutrition services, equipping health professionals with the competencies required to deliver quality services from day one on the job. However, nutrition content is often outdated and can be difficult to integrate into pre-service training.

In an effort to improve the quality of nutrition services, USAID Advancing Nutrition developed the Tool and Guide for Reviewing the Nutrition Content of Pre-Service Training Curricula and tested it in Bangladesh, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ghana, the Kyrgyz Republic, and Malawi. The tool can be used by academic institutions, relevant government entities, non-governmental organizations, and donors to help review and improve the nutrition content in existing pre-service training curricula for specific cadres of health workers who provide frontline nutrition services.

Last modified: January 1, 2024

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Source: USAID Advancing Nutrition

Year of Publication: 2023

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Effectively Measuring Training: Building Knowledge and Skills for Nutrition Programs
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Effectively Measuring Training: Building Knowledge and Skills for Nutrition Programs

Improving the skills and competencies of the global nutrition workforce (e.g., nutrition program managers and technical staff) to design, plan, implement, monitor, and evaluate nutrition services is one of the key capacity gaps that the nutrition sector needs to address to improve the coverage and effectiveness of nutrition service provision and ultimately health and nutrition outcomes.

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.

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Source: USAID Advancing Nutrition

Year of Publication: 2023

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Designing Effective Nutrition-Sensitive Agriculture Activities Workshop: Facilitator's Guide and Slides
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Designing Effective Nutrition-Sensitive Agriculture Activities Workshop: Facilitator’s Guide and Slides

This guide provides materials needed to facilitate nutrition-sensitive agriculture design workshops. Paired with two PowerPoint slide decks, it provides instructions for facilitators to conduct a three-day workshop that helps activity teams establish contextually appropriate, nutrition-sensitive agriculture outcomes, interventions, and indicators. Workshop participants discuss outcomes to consider that will lead to improved nutritional status and then develop interventions to contain underlying contributors to malnutrition. Originally developed by the USAID-funded Strengthening Partnerships, Results, and Innovations in Nutrition Globally (SPRING) project, USAID Advancing Nutrition updated the guide in 2020.

Last modified: January 1, 2024

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Source: USAID Advancing Nutrition

Year of Publication: 2022

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