November 2022
Issue 68 / English
Editorials
- Complementary Feeding in Emergencies Special Section (page 0)
- Editorial (page 3)
Field Articles
- Food distributions in Myanmar: Responding to the COVID-19 pandemic and the coup d’etat (page 0)
- Using flow charts and health systems strengthening to improve antenatal nutrition services in India (page 0)
- Developing the Yemen Action Plan on child wasting: A success story (page 15)
- An innovative digital information platform tackling wasting in Indonesia (page 20)
- Improving the uptake of family mid-upper arm circumference screening in Mali (page 23)
- Establishing an effective multi-sectoral nutrition information system in Ivory Coast (page 26)
- In Yemen, Cash Assistance Contributes to Positive Nutritional Outcomes (page 29)
Research
Special section
- A peer-to-peer model to improve maternal, infant and young child feeding in Rwanda (page 0)
- China case study: Capacity building of primary health workers. From piloting to national Infant and Young Child Feeding programming (page 0)
- Conducting situation analysis as a first step to improve young children’s diets: examples from Ethiopia, Tanzania, and Zimbabwe (page 0)
- How has COVID-19 impacted nutrition services in Sri Lanka? (page 0)
- Regional Perspective: East Asia and Pacific (page 0)
- Regional Perspective: Eastern and Southern Africa (ESA) (page 0)
- Regional Perspective: Europe and Central Asia (ECA) (page 0)
- Regional Perspective: Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) (page 0)
- Regional Perspective: Middle East and North Africa (MENA) (page 0)
- Regional Perspective: South Asia (page 0)
- Regional Perspective: West and Central Africa (page 0)
- State of Palestine: Investing in assessment positively impacted programming for complementary feeding (page 0)
- UNICEF regional perspectives on complementary feeding (page 0)
- A global perspective on improving the diets of infants and young children (page 34)
- An innovative feeding tool to improve young children’s diets (page 38)
- Sudan, Nigeria, Myanmar, and Yemen: Lessons from complementary feeding programming in emergencies (page 41)
- Complementary feeding in emergencies programming – Sudan case study (page 42)
- Complementary feeding in emergencies programming – Nigeria case study (page 44)
- Complementary feeding in emergencies programming – Myanmar case study (page 46)
- Complementary feeding in emergencies programming – Yemen case study (page 48)
- Improving complementary feeding practices through a comprehensive health systems strengthening approach: experiences from Egypt (page 50)
- Improving the quality of complementary feeding in Rohingya refugee camps in Bangladesh (page 53)
- Improving complementary feeding through home fortification in Malawi (page 56)
- Supporting positive young child feeding practices among Venezuelan migrants and refugees living in Brazil (page 59)
- Cash transfers and health education to address young child diets in Kenya (page 62)
- Community peer support groups: Improving infant and young child feeding in Pakistan (page 65)
- Ukraine crisis: Organisational guidance for the feeding of children aged six months to two years (page 65)
News & Views
- Training in the time of COVID (page 4)
- Infant and young child feeding: Remote counselling eLearning (page 5)
- Wasting and Stunting Technical Interest Group: two new publications from the research-influencing sub-working group (page 5)
- en-net summary: Spring 2022 (page 6)
- A decision-making tool for the use of simplified approaches in exceptional circumstances (page 7)
- en-net summary: Summer 2022 (page 7)
- Testing double-fortified salt with iodine and folic acid in Ethiopia (page 8)
- Update on the GNC Technical Alliance Global Thematic Working Groups (page 8)
- COVID-19 within the nutrition analytical framework (page 9)
- The ‘GNC Learn’ platform (page 9)
- Sensory stimulation and play therapy: Benefits in the treatment of severe wasting in India? (page 10)
- National Information Platform for Nutrition: An overview (page 12)
Research snapshots
- Child stunting starts in utero: Growth trajectories and determinants in Ugandan infants (page 66)
- Poor usability of predictive models for estimating the burden of wasting in crisis-affected countries (page 66)
- Bioenergy and Nutrition nexus: An exploration of the links for win-win opportunities (page 67)
- Carers’ and health workers’ perspectives on malnutrition in infants aged under six months in rural Ethiopia: A qualitative study (page 67)
- A summary of the CHAIN Network (page 68)
- Malnutrition in infants under six months attending community health centres in Ethiopia (page 68)
Report summaries
- Updating national community-based management of acute malnutrition guidelines: Lessons from previous experiences (page 0)
- 2022 Global Report on Food Crises (page 72)
- Food Security and Gender Equality (page 73)
- Severe Wasting: An overlooked child survival emergency (page 73)
- A positive postnatal experience: World Health Organization recommendations (page 74)
- Dying to adapt: A comparison of African healthcare spending and climate adaptation costs (page 74)
- Multiple micronutrient supplementation to improve the quality of nutrition care and prevent low birthweight (page 74)
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- A special section on complementary feeding in emergencies
- Case studies and examples from across UNICEF's portfolio
- Climate crises: Report summaries showing a world in turmoil
- Success story? Cash transfers in Yemen and Kenya
- Exploring barriers to MUAC screening in Mali
- Play therapy for severe wasting: The view from India