Toolkit

Feb 01 2024

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Alive & Thrive Digital Technology Catalog: An overview of the digital technology innovations Alive & Thrive has developed to help improve nutrition outcomes

This brief summarizes how Alive & Thrive is currently leveraging digital technology to strengthen nutrition programming. It catalogs our existing innovations and directs readers to additional information.

Journal article

Jan 26 2024

Overpromoted and underregulated: National binding legal measures related to commercially produced complementary foods in seven Southeast Asian countries are not fully aligned with available guidance (Blankenship J, et al. Maternal & Child Nutrition. 2023)

The market for commercially produced complementary foods (CPCF) is rapidly expanding in Southeast Asia. This study, co-authored by Alive & Thrive, suggests improved, comprehensive, and enforceable national binding legal measures for CPCF to ensure that countries protect, promote, and support optimal nutrition for older infants and young children.

Journal article

Jan 08 2024

Bridging the evidence-to-action gap: enhancing alignment of national nutrition strategies in Cambodia, Laos, and Vietnam with global and regional recommendations (Nguyen TT, Huynh NL, et al. Frontiers in Nutrition. 2024)

This journal article details Alive & Thrive’s examination of the alignment of recent National Nutrition Strategies and Action Plans (NNS) in Cambodia, Laos, and Vietnam with recent global and regional recommendations and standards with a focus on maternal, infant, and young child nutrition an

Journal article

Oct 30 2023

Breastfeeding and infant care as ‘sexed’ care work: reconsideration of the three Rs to enable women’s rights, economic empowerment, nutrition and health (Gribble KD, Smith JP, et al. Frontiers in Public Health. 2023)

The "Three Rs" framework aims to achieve gender equality by recognizing, reducing, and redistributing women's care and domestic work. However, breastfeeding is a unique form of care work that should not be reduced and cannot be directly redistributed to fathers or others.

Toolkit

Oct 23 2023

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Catalogue multimédia de Alive & Thrive pour les interventions de nutrition maternelle

Alive & Thrive a mené une recherche formative pour mieux comprendre les déterminants, les facilitateurs et les obstacles à l’adoption d’interventions de nutrition maternelle pour les femmes enceintes et leurs nourrissons en Burkina Faso.

Toolkit

Oct 23 2023

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La Mise au Sein dans l’heure qui suit l’accouchement : Catalogue des ressources

Ce catalogue comprend des ressources et des outils de communication mis au point par Alive & Thrive et le gouvernement du Burkina Faso pour aider les gouvernements nationaux et leurs partenaires techniques à renforcer l’initiation précoce à l’allaitement maternel par le biais des programmes Soins Essentiels au Nouveau-Né (SENN) et 10 étapes pour réussir l’allaitement maternel.
 
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