Nutrition
Well-nourished people are better able to endure temporary reductions in food security and households with well-nourished people are better able to withstand shocks and stresses.
Nutrition is both a well-being outcome that resilience building contributes to and it is a resilience capacity. Well-nourished people are healthier and better able to work and endure temporary reductions in food security; in turn, households with well-nourished people are better able to withstand shocks and stresses when they occur.
Households with low levels of resilience often face malnutrition resulting from lack of access to nutritious food and restricting food intake when a shock occurs; thus, strengthening resilience is key to improving nutrition. Effective nutrition and resilience activities require a multisectoral approach that pairs humanitarian assistance with longer-term development and engages local stakeholders. Nutrition activities should also be context-specific, depending on existing coping mechanisms, opportunities, and nutritional needs.
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Drawing on a literature review and a series of key informant interviews, this paper describes the following: Scale and duration of the persistent...
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Join panelists from TANGO International and USAID for a presentation of the key findings from the RISE I (Resilience in the Sahel Enhanced) recurrent monitoring surveys (RMS). The RMS followed a group of RISE I households from August 2018 through April 2019 in both Niger and Burkina Faso to...
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Building resilience requires a long-term commitment and an integrated approach to strengthen the capacities of individuals, households, and communities to respond to, recover from, and prevent (where possible) shocks and stresses.
This report synthesizes the experiences of two programs...
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The objective of this research is to provide implementing partners, the Office of Food for Peace (FFP), the Food and Nutrition Technical Assistance (FANTA) Project, and the United States Agency for International Development/Center for Resilience (C4R) with insights into factors that strengthen...
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This short, desk-based study provides a first exploration of the interconnections between resilience and nutrition, as evidenced in the guidance of six international donors and the OECD.
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Drawing on a literature review and a series of key informant interviews, this paper describes the following: Scale and duration of the persistent GAM problem, Perceived causal pathways, Methodological challenges in identifying trends, Implications for current practice and policies, Implications...
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