In May 2014, USAID released the 2014–2025 Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Strategy, marking the first time the agency has had an overarching strategy that emphasizes the need to address both direct and underlying causes of malnutrition to have an impact on malnutrition. The strategy also provides a blueprint for alignment of the efforts of the USAID Bureau of Global Health, the U.S. Government’s Feed the Future and Global Health initiatives, the Office of Food for Peace development programs, resilience efforts, and other nutrition investments.

As part of the next phase for the new strategy, USAID is supporting its rollout and implementation through the release of a series of technical guidance briefs and a series of Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Global Learning & Evidence Exchanges (MSN-GLEEs). The MSN-GLEE, which was a closed event, was held in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania from March 8–10, 2016, and included USAID mission staff and other U.S. Government staff, host country government partners, implementing partners and other experts working in this area.

Meeting Report

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Presentations

The contents of the presentations are the responsibility of the individual authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of USAID or the United States Government. 

Day 1

• Overview of Meeting Goals and Objectives
  Sandy Remancus, FANTA

• The State of the Region and Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Programming
  Boitshepo "Bibi" Giyose, FAO

• Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Strategy 2014-2025
  Anne Peniston, USAID/GH

• Nutrition-Specific Actions: What Works and Why
  Deborah Ash, FANTA

• Nutrition-Sensitive Agriculture: What Works and Why
  Katherine Dennison, USAID/BFS

• Aflatoxin Impacts on Child Growth
  Ahmed Kablan, USAID/BFS

• Nutrition for Adolescent Girls and Women
  Kavita Sethuraman, FANTA

• Dietary Diversity and Social Behavior Change
  Katherine Dennison, USAID/BFS

Day 2

• Rwanda: Examples of Coordination and Monitoring Across Technical Sectors 
  Silver Karumba, USAID/Rwanda

• Ethiopia: Multi-sectoral National Nutrition Program-Lessons Learned 2013-2015
  Mary Harvey, USAID/Ethiopia

• Kenya: Nutrition and Health Program Plus
  Brian Njoroge, NHP+ Kenya

• Lessons learned from Alive & Thrive SBC programs
  Desta Kebede, A&T/Ethiopia

• Giving participants a voice in program design: Trials of Improved Practices (TIPS) in the FFP Amalima Project in Zimbabwe
  Melissa Antal, Manoff Group

• Improving Infant and Young Child Feeding: Lessons from Market-based and Hybrid Delivery Models
  Marti van Liere, GAIN

• Climate Change, Food Security and Nutrition
  Katherine Dennison, USAID/BFS

• Severe Weather and Other Shocks – Are we Doing Enough to Mitigate Risks for Nutrition?
  Mike Manske, USAID Office of Food for Peace

• Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene (WASH) Interventions for Improved Nutrition
  Kyla Gregoire, USAID/FFP

• NACS – A systems approach to integrating nutrition assessment, counseling and support within health services through quality improvement
  Tim Quick, USAID/OHA

• M&E for MSN Programming
  Raphael Makonnen, USAID/GH; Anne Swindale, USAID/BFS; Elizabeth Bontrager, USAID/GH

Day 3

• Tanzania: Coordinating Multi-sectoral Stakeholders to Address Nutrition
  Obey Assery, PMO/Tanzania

• Malawi: Integration of Nutrition Curriculum into Universities, Lessons Learned
  Violet Orchardson, USAID/Malawi

• Uganda: Integration of Multi-sectoral Nutrition Interventions into the Development Planning Process at the District Level
  Brenda Namugumya, FANTA/Uganda

• A Nutrition Governance Framework: Why it Matters for Scale Up and Sustainability
  Deborah Ash, FANTA/Tanzania

• Conflict of Interest Among Stakeholders in Nutrition
  Katherine Hagen, GSO

• Private Sector Solutions – an Example from VALID Nutrition
  Andrew Chinguwo, VALID