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 | FHI 360 manages the Alive & Thrive (A&T) initiative and provides nutrition expertise and support for communications and private sector activities. On July 6, 2011, FHI announced the acquisition of AED's programs, expertise, and other assets. To reflect this expanded breadth, reach, and approach to development, FHI is now called FHI 360. FHI 360 operates from 60 offices with 4,400 staff in the U.S. and around the world. |
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 | BRAC coordinates Alive & Thrive’s community-based activities in Bangladesh. Since its founding in 1972, BRAC has emerged as one of the world’s largest non-governmental organizations. BRAC operates in all districts in Bangladesh with the twin objectives of poverty alleviation and empowerment of the poor, especially women. BRAC’s health program offers basic services through approximately 70,000 community health workers. |
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 | GMMB coordinates advocacy activities in the three focus countries. GMMB’s services include policy communications, media relations, grassroots organizing, and coalition building. GMMB has worked in 30 countries on global health and development issues, including the launch of the Lancet nutrition series. |
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 | IFPRI (International Food Policy Research Institute) is responsible for monitoring and evaluation of the Alive & Thrive program, including baseline and endline surveys and operations research. Over the past two decades, IFPRI has been involved in the evaluation of a wide variety of large-scale nutrition and social protection programs in more than 15 countries. |
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 | Save the Children coordinates community-based activities in Viet Nam and offers nutrition technical services at A&T headquarters. Save the Children implements health and nutrition programs in more than 30 countries, incorporating high-level policy work and grassroots mobilization. |
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 | University of California-Davis oversees the Alive & Thrive small grants program and lends technical support. Staff with the Program in International and Community Nutrition at UC-Davis wrote several key documents that led to current global infant and young child feeding (IYCF) guidelines. UC-Davis also has conducted groundbreaking research studies on IYCF. |
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 | World Vision is conducting operations research in Ethiopia to test its model of timed and targeting counseling at the household level. World Vision works in nearly 100 countries around the globe, combating the root causes of poverty and responding quickly when disaster strikes. |
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