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Field Exchange 67 Digest
- Nigeria Governors’ Forum Nutrition Scorecard: data for nutrition accountability
- Sally Mugabe Children’s Hospital, Zimbabwe: A snapshot
- Examining recommendations from Link Nutrition Causal Analysis (NCA)
- Ending the marketing of breastmilk substitutes
- Multi-sectoral nutrition programming: exploring impact
- The Wasting-Stunting Technical Interest Group: Summarising the work to date
- Indonesia: Scaling up child wasting prevention and treatment in the context of stunting prevention
- USAID: How should we address wasting and stunting?
Field Exchange 67 Digest - French
Field Exchange 66 Digest
- A multi-sector approach for school-age children and adolescents in Malawi
- Nutrition-Friendly Schools Initiative in the State of Palestine
- Preventing teen pregnancies and supporting pregnant teenagers in Ecuador
- Promoting youth leadership on nutrition through junior parliamentarians and councilors in Zimbabwe
- The importance of school feeding programmes, particularly during the Covid-19 pandemic
- Use of anthropometry in school-aged children and adolescents
- Weekly iron and folic acid supplementation and nutrition education for adolescent girls in Africa and Asia
Field Exchange 65 Digest
- Multi-sector nutrition programming: ‘Nutrition Smart Villages’ in Bangladesh and India
- In Chad, the Mother-MUAC approach improves treatment access for malnourished children
- Large-scale food fortification efforts in Haiti
- Supporting maternal, infant and young child nutrition in the context of COVID-19: the Rwanda risk communication and community engagement (RCCE) response
- Keeping food on the move during the COVID-19 pandemic in the Philippines
- Streamlining SMART survey processes to support the nutrition information system in Kenya
- Early lessons from Swabhimaan, a multi-sector integrated health and nutrition programme for women and girls in India
Field Exchange 64 Digest
- Transitioning nutrition programming from humanitarian aid to health system strengthening in Kenya
- A review of the humanitarian nutrition response in North-East Nigeria
- Use of RapidPro for remote collection of nutrition data during the drought emergency and COVID-19 pandemic in Zimbabwe
- Integration of family planning in nutrition programming: experiences from the Suaahara II programme in Nepal
- Adaptations to community-based acute malnutrition treatment during the COVID-19 pandemic
- Zambia efforts in prevention, early detection and treatment of wasting during COVID-19
- Implementing the Family MUAC approach for infants under six months in the context of COVID-19 in Ethiopia
- Community health worker-led treatment for uncomplicated wasting: insights from the RISE study
Field Exchange 63 Digest
- Integration of essential nutrition interventions into primary healthcare in Pakistan to prevent and treat wasting: A story of change
- Wasting prevention and treatment – central to stunting reduction in Pakistan
- Experiences of the Integrated Management of Acute Malnutrition (IMAM) programme in Nepal: from pilot to scale-up
- One UN for nutrition in Afghanistan - Translating global policy into action to tackle wasting
- Managing at risk mothers and infants under six months in India – no time to waste
- Maternal nutrition interventions in Bangladesh: delivery at scale and mainstreaming into the health system
- South Asia and child wasting – unravelling the conundrum
- Improving maternal nutrition in South Asia: Implications for child wasting prevention efforts
- Community management of acute malnutrition in Rajasthan, India
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