Multi-Sectoral Nutrition

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  • This site offers the most useful technical resources that can help you increase the quality and impact of your multi-sectoral nutrition programming. If you feel that an important resource is missing, let us know please.

    Key Resources

    PIN Relief and Development Department Strategy 2022-2026 (PDF, 3.35 MB)
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    When can it be useful?
    This resource can help you in understanding PIN's RDD Strategy for 2022-2026 including PIN's multi-sectoral nutrition approach.

    PIN Relief and Development Department Strategy 2022-2026 - overview
    Language: English
    Region: Africa, Asia, Middle East, Europe & Caucasus
    Resource type: Strategies
    Useful during: Initial Orientation
    Useful for: Project / Programme Managers / Heads of Programmes, M&E Managers / Officers, Country Directors / (Support) Desk Officers
    PIN (2014) Practical Toolkit for Integrated Programming for Improved Nutrition (IPIN) (PDF, 2.21 MB)
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    When can it be useful?
    This toolkit outlines PIN’s multi-sectoral approach to addressing undernutrition and covers the following main topic: types, causes and impacts of undernutrition; integrating nutrition into existing programming; practical options for addressing undernutrition; and tips and tricks for program design, implementation, and M&E.

    PIN (2014) Practical Toolkit for Integrated Programming for Improved Nutrition (IPIN) - overview
    Language: English
    Region: Africa, Asia, Middle East, Europe & Caucasus
    Resource type: Toolkits & Manuals, Communication Materials
    Useful during: Initial Orientation, Assessment and Project Design, Implementation, Monitoring and Evaluation
    Useful for: Field Officers, Project / Programme Managers / Heads of Programmes, M&E Managers / Officers, Country Directors / (Support) Desk Officers
    PIN (2019) IndiKit: Guidance on Nutrition Indicators (URL)
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    When can it be useful?
    This website provides guidance on useful indicators to monitor and measure the impact of nutrition projects.

    PIN (2019) IndiKit: Guidance on Nutrition Indicators - overview
    Language: English
    Region: Africa, Asia, Middle East, Europe & Caucasus
    Resource type: Toolkits & Manuals
    Useful during: Assessment and Project Design, Implementation, Monitoring and Evaluation
    Useful for: Project / Programme Managers / Heads of Programmes, M&E Managers / Officers, Country Directors / (Support) Desk Officers
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    Examples of PIN's Interventions

    PIN (2022) Semi-Quantitative Evaluation of Access and Coverage Report, Nalolo District, Zambia (PDF, 2.3 MB)
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    When can it be useful?
    In October 2022, PIN together with the Ministry of Health (MoH) conducted a SQUEAC assessment to assess the coverage of the Integrated Management of Acute Malnutrition (IMAM) in Nalolo District’s East and West Banks.

    PIN (2022) Semi-Quantitative Evaluation of Access and Coverage Report, Nalolo District, Zambia - overview
    Language: English
    Region: Africa
    Resource type: Evaluation & Research Reports
    Useful during: Monitoring and Evaluation
    Useful for: Field Officers, Project / Programme Managers / Heads of Programmes, M&E Managers / Officers, Country Directors / (Support) Desk Officers
    PIN (2021) Semi-quantitative Evaluation of Access and Coverage Report, DRC (PDF, 1.45 MB)
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    When can it be useful?
    In February 2021, PIN conducted a SQUEAC assessment to assess the coverage of Community Based Management of Acute Malnutrition (CMAM) programmes in Kabambare Health Zone in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

    PIN (2021) Semi-quantitative Evaluation of Access and Coverage Report, DRC - overview
    Language: English
    Region: Africa
    Resource type: Evaluation & Research Reports
    Useful during: Monitoring and Evaluation
    Useful for: Field Officers, Project / Programme Managers / Heads of Programmes, M&E Managers / Officers, Country Directors / (Support) Desk Officers
    PIN (2019) Strengthening Food Systems for Nutrition (PDF, 2.73 MB)
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    When can it be useful?
    This resource gives an overview of PIN's global approach to ensuring nutrition or food security outcomes from it's agriculture, value chains or other market systems development programmes.

    PIN (2019) Strengthening Food Systems for Nutrition - overview
    Language: English
    Region: Africa, Asia, Middle East
    Resource type: Strategies, Toolkits & Manuals, Project Design Examples, Training Materials, Communication Materials
    Useful during: Initial Orientation, Assessment and Project Design, Implementation, Monitoring and Evaluation
    Useful for: Field Officers, Project / Programme Managers / Heads of Programmes, M&E Managers / Officers, Country Directors / (Support) Desk Officers
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    Introduction to Nutrition

    LSHTM (2021) Nutrition for Global Development Online Course (URL)
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    When can it be useful?
    This course has been designed to explore the complicated problem of malnutrition in all its forms, highlighting its multi-sectoral causes, exploring the available evidence and identifying potential solutions.

    LSHTM (2021) Nutrition for Global Development Online Course - overview
    Language: English
    Region: Africa, Asia, Middle East, Europe & Caucasus
    Resource type: E-Learning and Webinars
    Useful during: Initial Orientation
    Useful for: Project / Programme Managers / Heads of Programmes, M&E Managers / Officers, Country Directors / (Support) Desk Officers
    UNICEF AGORA (2022) Introduction to Nutrition (URL)
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    When can it be useful?
    This course describes the actions UNICEF Nutrition takes to attempt to alleviate malnutrition, explains why efforts and collaborations with multiple sectors are required to address the underlying causes of malnutrition, and presents some case studies.

    UNICEF AGORA (2022) Introduction to Nutrition - overview
    Language: English, French
    Region: Africa, Asia, Middle East
    Resource type: E-Learning and Webinars
    Useful during: Initial Orientation
    Useful for: Field Officers, Project / Programme Managers / Heads of Programmes
    PIN (2014) Practical Toolkit for Integrated Programming for Improved Nutrition (IPIN) (PDF, 2.21 MB)
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    When can it be useful?
    This toolkit outlines PIN’s multi-sectoral approach to addressing undernutrition and covers the following main topic: types, causes and impacts of undernutrition; integrating nutrition into existing programming; practical options for addressing undernutrition; and tips and tricks for program design, implementation, and M&E.

    PIN (2014) Practical Toolkit for Integrated Programming for Improved Nutrition (IPIN) - overview
    Language: English
    Region: Africa, Asia, Middle East, Europe & Caucasus
    Resource type: Toolkits & Manuals, Communication Materials
    Useful during: Initial Orientation, Assessment and Project Design, Implementation, Monitoring and Evaluation
    Useful for: Field Officers, Project / Programme Managers / Heads of Programmes, M&E Managers / Officers, Country Directors / (Support) Desk Officers
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    Nutrition Security Assessments

    PIN (2015) Practical Checklist for Conducting Nutrition Surveys  (PDF, 1010.47 KB)
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    When can it be useful?
    Five brief checklists focusing on the key stages of the most common nutrition-related surveys enable survey managers to quickly assess whether or not they have omitted an important step which may influence the quality of survey’s data. Each checklist also recommends the best sources of know-how for survey design, implementation and reporting.

    PIN (2015) Practical Checklist for Conducting Nutrition Surveys  - overview
    Language: English
    Region: Africa, Asia, Middle East, Europe & Caucasus
    Resource type: Checklists
    Useful during: Assessment and Project Design, Monitoring and Evaluation
    Useful for: Project / Programme Managers / Heads of Programmes, M&E Managers / Officers
    USAID Advancing Nutrition (2022) M&E Online Course Repository (URL)
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    When can it be useful?
    Provides a repository of online nutrition-related Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning (MEL) courses

    USAID Advancing Nutrition (2022) M&E Online Course Repository - overview
    Language: English
    Region: Africa, Asia, Middle East
    Resource type: E-Learning and Webinars, Training Materials
    Useful during: Monitoring and Evaluation
    Useful for: M&E Managers / Officers
    Save the Children (2018) Community Management of Acute Malnutrition (CMAM) Toolkit (ZIP, 7.61 MB)
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    When can it be useful?
    A practical toolkit for assessing, designing and monitoring acute malnutrition treatment programmes.

    ZIP
    Language: English
    Region: Africa, Asia, Middle East, Europe & Caucasus
    Resource type: Toolkits & Manuals, Templates
    Useful during: Assessment and Project Design, Implementation, Monitoring and Evaluation
    Useful for: Field Officers, Project / Programme Managers / Heads of Programmes, M&E Managers / Officers
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    Infant and Young Child Feeding (IYCF) (incl. mHealth and Positive Deviance)

    UNICEF (2022) The Community Infant and Young Child Feeding Counselling Package (URL)
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    When can it be useful?
    The Community IYCF Counselling Package includes the Facilitator Guide for use in training community workers (CWs); the Participant Materials, consisting of “handouts” and monitoring tools; a set of 24 IYCF Counselling Cards and companion Key Messages Booklet; Take-home Brochures; Planning Guide, and Adaptation Guide.

    UNICEF (2022) The Community Infant and Young Child Feeding Counselling Package - overview
    Language: English, French
    Region: Africa, Asia, Middle East
    Resource type: Toolkits & Manuals, Training Materials, Communication Materials
    Useful during: Initial Orientation, Assessment and Project Design, Implementation
    Useful for: Field Officers, Project / Programme Managers / Heads of Programmes
    WHO (2021) Indicators for assessing infant and young child feeding practices (PDF, 2.49 MB)
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    When can it be useful?
    This document presents a set of new and updated indicators to assess infant and young child feeding (IYCF) practices at household level.

    WHO (2021) Indicators for assessing infant and young child feeding practices - overview
    Language: English
    Region: Africa, Asia, Middle East, Europe & Caucasus
    Resource type: Toolkits & Manuals
    Useful during: Monitoring and Evaluation
    Useful for: Project / Programme Managers / Heads of Programmes, M&E Managers / Officers, Country Directors / (Support) Desk Officers
    IFE Core Group and Save the Children (2021) IYCF-Emergency Hub (URL)
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    When can it be useful?
    The IYCFEHub is for health and nutrition frontline workers, technical officers, and programme managers interested in accessing the most relevant resources related to infant and young child nutrition. Through the IYCFE Hub you can access a compilation of resources, guidance, protocols, evidence, educational materials and tools.

    IFE Core Group and Save the Children (2021) IYCF-Emergency Hub - overview
    Language: English, French
    Region: Africa, Asia, Middle East, Europe & Caucasus
    Resource type: Toolkits & Manuals, Checklists
    Useful during: Initial Orientation, Assessment and Project Design, Implementation, Monitoring and Evaluation
    Useful for: Project / Programme Managers / Heads of Programmes, M&E Managers / Officers, Country Directors / (Support) Desk Officers
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    Nutrition-Sensitive Agriculture

    PIN (2019) Strengthening Food Systems for Nutrition (PDF, 2.73 MB)
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    When can it be useful?
    This resource gives an overview of PIN's global approach to ensuring nutrition or food security outcomes from it's agriculture, value chains or other market systems development programmes.

    PIN (2019) Strengthening Food Systems for Nutrition - overview
    Language: English
    Region: Africa, Asia, Middle East
    Resource type: Strategies, Toolkits & Manuals, Project Design Examples, Training Materials, Communication Materials
    Useful during: Initial Orientation, Assessment and Project Design, Implementation, Monitoring and Evaluation
    Useful for: Field Officers, Project / Programme Managers / Heads of Programmes, M&E Managers / Officers, Country Directors / (Support) Desk Officers
    CIP & PIN & Emory (2017) Quality Diets for Better Health - Ethiopia (PDF, 1.2 MB)
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    When can it be useful?
    A summary of a project aimed at improving nutrition security and consumption of vitamin A-rich Orange-Flesh Sweet Potato through nutrition-sensitive value chain development. Implemented in Ethiopia, project partners are the International Potato Centre (CIP), PIN, and Emory University.

    CIP & PIN & Emory (2017) Quality Diets for Better Health - Ethiopia - overview
    Language: English
    Region: Africa, Asia, Middle East, Europe & Caucasus
    Resource type: Project Design Examples, Evaluation & Research Reports
    Useful during: Initial Orientation
    Useful for: Field Officers, Project / Programme Managers / Heads of Programmes, M&E Managers / Officers, Country Directors / (Support) Desk Officers
    PIN (2018) Quality Standard Checklist on Nutrition Sensitive Agriculture and Livelihoods (DOCX, 156.3 KB)
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    When can it be useful?
    A practical checklist for designing, monitoring and evaluating Nutrition Sensitive Agriculture and Livelihoods programmes.

    PIN (2018) Quality Standard Checklist on Nutrition Sensitive Agriculture and Livelihoods - overview
    Language: English
    Region: Africa, Asia, Middle East, Europe & Caucasus
    Resource type: Checklists
    Useful during: Assessment and Project Design, Monitoring and Evaluation
    Useful for: Project / Programme Managers / Heads of Programmes, Country Directors / (Support) Desk Officers
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    Nutrition and WASH

    ACF (2017) WASH'Nutrition: Guide book on increasing nutritional impact through integration of wash (PDF, 3.23 MB)
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    When can it be useful?
    A practical guidebook on: increasing nutritional impact through integration of WASH and Nutrition programmes

    ACF (2017) WASH'Nutrition: Guide book on increasing nutritional impact through integration of wash  - overview
    Language: English
    Region: Africa, Asia, Middle East, Europe & Caucasus
    Resource type: Toolkits & Manuals
    Useful during: Initial Orientation, Assessment and Project Design, Implementation, Monitoring and Evaluation
    Useful for: Field Officers, Project / Programme Managers / Heads of Programmes, M&E Managers / Officers, Country Directors / (Support) Desk Officers
    Cranfield & PIN (2019) Environmental enteric dysfunction and child stunting (URL)
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    When can it be useful?
    This paper reviews the existing evidence on the causes of Environmental Enteric Dysfunction in infants and considerations for nutrition and WASH interventions to be able to effectively reduce the prevalence of stunting worldwide.

    URL
    Language: English
    Region: Africa, Asia, Middle East, Europe & Caucasus
    Resource type: Innovations, Evaluation & Research Reports, Communication Materials
    Useful during: Initial Orientation
    Useful for: Project / Programme Managers / Heads of Programmes, Country Directors / (Support) Desk Officers
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    Nutrition and Gender

    Ripple Effect (2023) Transformative Household Methodology for Gender & Nutrition: A Training Manual (URL)
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    When can it be useful?
    The Transformative Household Methodology (THM) is a tool that aims at creating awareness of intra-household gender relations between women, men, girls, and boys. The THM identifies the different roles and responsibilities of household members, their access and control over resources, and their related benefits. The purpose of THM training is to create awareness of the participating household on ge

    Ripple Effect (2023) Transformative Household Methodology for Gender & Nutrition: A Training Manual  - overview
    Language: English
    Region: Africa
    Resource type: Toolkits & Manuals, Training Materials
    Useful during: Implementation
    Useful for: Field Officers, Project / Programme Managers / Heads of Programmes
    CORE Group (2015) Guide: Enhancing Nutrition through Gender Sensitive Behavior Change (PDF, 3.21 MB)
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    When can it be useful?
    An textbook on designing, implementing, monitoring and evaluating gender-sensitive behaviour change within Nutrition and Food Security programmes.

    CORE Group (2015) Guide: Enhancing Nutrition through Gender Sensitive Behavior Change - overview
    Language: English
    Region: Africa, Asia, Middle East, Europe & Caucasus
    Resource type: Toolkits & Manuals
    Useful during: Initial Orientation, Assessment and Project Design, Implementation, Monitoring and Evaluation
    Useful for: Project / Programme Managers / Heads of Programmes
    USAID (2022) Integrating Gender into Nutrition Programs: Program Guide (URL)
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    When can it be useful?
    This guide is for nutrition programme planners and implementers who aim to integrate gender into multi-sectoral nutrition activities. It shares resources and examples to effectively integrate gender at each phase of a nutrition programme.

    USAID (2022) Integrating Gender into Nutrition Programs: Program Guide - overview
    Language: English, French
    Region: Africa, Asia, Middle East, Europe & Caucasus
    Resource type: Strategies, Toolkits & Manuals
    Useful during: Assessment and Project Design
    Useful for: Project / Programme Managers / Heads of Programmes, M&E Managers / Officers, Country Directors / (Support) Desk Officers
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    Nutrition Social and Behaviour Change (SBC) Programming

    USAID Advancing Nutrition (2023) Tools for High-Quality Nutrition SBC Programming (URL)
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    When can it be useful?
    A suite of practical tools to harmonise design, implementation, monitoring, and evaluation of nutrition SBC programmes in food and health systems.

    URL
    Language: English
    Region: Africa, Asia, Middle East
    Resource type: Toolkits & Manuals
    Useful during: Assessment and Project Design, Implementation, Monitoring and Evaluation
    Useful for: Project / Programme Managers / Heads of Programmes, M&E Managers / Officers
    USAID Advancing Nutrition (2023) Se concentrer sur les normes sociales: Un guide pratique (URL)
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    When can it be useful?
    Le guide du programme aborde la manière d’identifier les normes, d’inclure des éléments de changement de normes dans les stratégies et activités de nutrition, qu’elles soient spécifiques ou sensibles à la nutrition, et de suivre et mesurer le changement normatif.

    USAID Advancing Nutrition (2023) Se concentrer sur les normes sociales: Un guide pratique - overview
    Language: English, French
    Region: Africa, Asia
    Resource type: Toolkits & Manuals
    Useful during: Assessment and Project Design, Implementation
    Useful for: Project / Programme Managers / Heads of Programmes
    USAID Advancing Nutrition (2022) Measuring SBC in Nutrition Programs: A Guide for Evaluators (URL)
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    When can it be useful?
    This guide provides guidance on how to evaluate an activity that uses SBC to improve multi-sectoral nutrition outcomes.

    USAID Advancing Nutrition (2022) Measuring SBC in Nutrition Programs: A Guide for Evaluators - overview
    Language: English
    Region: Africa, Asia, Middle East
    Resource type: Toolkits & Manuals
    Useful during: Monitoring and Evaluation
    Useful for: M&E Managers / Officers
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    Nutrition in Emergencies

    WHO (2023) WHO guideline on the prevention and management of wasting (acute malnutrition) (URL)
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    When can it be useful?
    This new 2023 WHO guideline includes recommendations and good practice statements informed by the best available evidence for the prevention and management of wasting and nutritional oedema.

    URL
    Language: English, French
    Region: Africa, Asia, Middle East, Europe & Caucasus
    Resource type: Strategies, Checklists
    Useful during: Initial Orientation, Assessment and Project Design, Implementation, Monitoring and Evaluation
    Useful for: Field Officers, Project / Programme Managers / Heads of Programmes, M&E Managers / Officers, Country Directors / (Support) Desk Officers
    IFE Core Group (2017) Infant and Young Child Feeding in Emergencies: Operational Guide (PDF, 836.15 KB)
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    When can it be useful?
    Key guidance for use in food security and nutrition interventions in emergency contexts, to ensure programmes are providing the necessary requirements for adequate infant and young child feeding.

    IFE Core Group (2017) Infant and Young Child Feeding in Emergencies: Operational Guide - overview
    Language: English
    Region: Africa, Asia, Middle East, Europe & Caucasus
    Resource type: Toolkits & Manuals
    Useful during: Initial Orientation, Assessment and Project Design, Implementation, Monitoring and Evaluation
    Useful for: Project / Programme Managers / Heads of Programmes, Country Directors / (Support) Desk Officers
    IFE Core Group and Save the Children (2021) IYCF-Emergency Hub (URL)
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    When can it be useful?
    The IYCFEHub is for health and nutrition frontline workers, technical officers, and programme managers interested in accessing the most relevant resources related to infant and young child nutrition. Through the IYCFE Hub you can access a compilation of resources, guidance, protocols, evidence, educational materials and tools.

    IFE Core Group and Save the Children (2021) IYCF-Emergency Hub - overview
    Language: English, French
    Region: Africa, Asia, Middle East, Europe & Caucasus
    Resource type: Toolkits & Manuals, Checklists
    Useful during: Initial Orientation, Assessment and Project Design, Implementation, Monitoring and Evaluation
    Useful for: Project / Programme Managers / Heads of Programmes, M&E Managers / Officers, Country Directors / (Support) Desk Officers
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