Resources
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Source: Antoinette Tisa |
- A2Z: The USAID Micronutrient and Child Blindness Project
The goal of the USAID Micronutrient and Child Blindness Project is to increase the use of key micronutrient and blindness interventions to improve child and maternal health.
- Demographic and Health Surveys Program
MEASURE DHS provides decisionmakers with the information necessary to plan, monitor, and evaluate population, health, and nutrition programs.
- Food and Nutrition Technical Assistance 2
FANTA-2 works to improve nutrition and food security policies, strategies, and programs through technical support to USAID and its partners, including host country governments, international organizations and NGO implementing partners.
- Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition
The Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN) works to improve the nutritional status of 1 billion people to save lives and reduce disease; improve individual well-being, enjoyment, and productivity; and thereby reduce poverty and stimulate economic growth.
- Health Research Program
The Health Research Program (HaRP) identifies the challenges for child health in developing countries and countries in transition and designs the most effective approach to overcome them. These challenges range from infectious diseases to malnutrition to improper disease management by health workers.
- Infant and Young Child Nutrition Project [PDF, 128KB]
The Infant and Young Child Nutrition Project (IYCN) is USAID's flagship project on infant
and young child feeding and nutrition. IYCN is focused on delivering
measurable results at scale to improve infant and
young child growth and nutritional status, HIV-free
survival of infants and young children, and maternal nutrition.
- Micronutrient Forum
The Micronutrient Forum focuses on the micronutrient deficiencies of public health significance, particularly in vitamin A, iron, folate, iodine, and zinc.
- Point-of-Use Zinc and Water Disinfection Project
The Point-Of-Use Water Disinfection and Zinc Treatment Project (POUZN) aims to reduce one of the leading causes of illness and death among children worldwide – diarrhea – via two proven methods: preventing diarrhea by disinfecting water at its point-of-use and treating diarrhea with zinc therapy.
- United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF)
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