FANTA hosted over 150 attendees at its Knowledge Sharing and Dissemination Event on September 6 at FHI 360 in Washington, DC. The event highlighted the project’s research and multisectoral nutrition activities and innovations, and the impact of its work at the global, country, and community levels, over the last six years.
View the Agenda, Session Descriptions, and key messages from the event on Twitter (#FANTAImpact). Presentations from the event are available below.
Presentations
The content of these presentations is the responsibility of the presenters and do not necessarily reflect the views of USAID or the United States Government.
FANTA III Overview
Sandy Remancus, Director, FANTA III Project
Research to Prevent Undernutrition in the First 1,000 Days (And Beyond)*
Moderator: Megan Deitchler
Kathryn Dewey, University of California, Davis
Jef Leroy, IFPRI
Per Ashorn, University of Tampere
Research on Cost and Cost-Effectiveness of Nutrition Interventions to Prevent Undernutrition in the First 1,000 Days*
Moderator: Zeina Maalouf-Manasseh
Stephen Vosti, University of California, Davis
Deanna Olney, IFPRI
Implementation Science Matters
Moderator: Megan Deitchler
Reena Borwankar, Nilufar Rakhmanova, Zeina Maalouf-Manasseh, Kristen Cashin
Strengthening Multisectoral Governance for Nutrition
Moderator: Jennifer Crum
Deborah Ash, Kavita Sethuraman, Hanifa Bachou
Nutrition as the Entry Point to Strengthening Health Systems
Moderator: Tina Lloren
Alice Nkoroi, Aimee Rurangwa, Alejandro Soto
Experiences and Lessons Learned in Capacity Building
Moderator: Serigne Diene
Rebecca Egan, Monica Woldt, Rebecca Namara
Igniting Social and Behavior Change for Improved Nutrition
Moderator: Alisa Alano
Tara Kovach, Deborah Ash, Mary Packard
Addressing Monitoring and Evaluation Challenges at Country and Global Levels
Facilitator: Sujata Bose
Diana Stukel, Reena Borwankar, Shelly Amieva, Hanifa Bachou
New Information Circuit
Please visit FANTA’s Tools webpage to access published tools.
Minimum Dietary Diversity for Women: A Guide to Measurement
Megan Deitchler
Sampling Guides: Conducting Sample Surveys to Support M&E Activities
Diana Stukel
SBC Tools for NACS
Mary Packard
Manual for Country-Level Nutrition Advocacy Using PROFILES and Nutrition Costing
Elisabeth Sommerfelt and Tara Kovach
NACS Planning and Costing Tool
Tina Lloren
Body Mass Index Wheel—A Simple, Time-Saving Tool
Serigne Diene
Nutrition-Sensitive Agricultural Programming: An Online Course
Kavita Sethuraman
Guide to Anthropometry: A Practical Tool for Program Planners, Managers, and Implementers
Kristen Cashin
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Toolkit
Amanda Yourchuck
Nutrition Assessment, Counseling, and Support (NACS): A User’s Guide
Aimee Rurangwa
* Most of the results presented in this session are in the process of submission to peer-reviewed journals, which require that the results not be published elsewhere. For this reason, we are not posting the presentations until the results are published. Please check FANTA’s research webpages for results from these studies that have been published:
- Effectiveness of Lipid-Based Nutrient Supplements in Bangladesh
- Impact and Cost-Effectiveness of the Preventing Malnutrition in Children under 2 Approach
- A Randomized Controlled Trial to Evaluate the Impact of Dietary Supplementation with Lipid-Based Nutrient Supplements on Maternal Health and Pregnancy Outcomes in Rural Malawi
- The Impact of a Promising Prenatal Health Intervention on Children’s Mortality, Morbidity, Growth, and Development in Rural Malawi
