Draft Guidance for USAID-Funded Nutrition-Sensitive Programming

Children eating nutritious food
Children eating nutritious food

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Despite agriculture's vital link to nutrition, agricultural investments do not automatically improve the nutritional status of farming households. Recently, the term “nutrition-sensitive agriculture” has emerged as a way to define agriculture-focused programming that incorporates specific nutrition goals and actions. Several pathways have been identified to show how nutrition-sensitive agriculture interventions can more directly impact nutrition and food security.

During this webinar, Richard Greene, senior deputy assistant administrator with USAID's Bureau for Food Security, shared a two-page draft guidance document that will assist implementers in applying the new USAID Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Strategy to nutrition-sensitive agriculture programs. Greene also discussed his priorities and requested participant feedback. In addition, presenters shared two examples (from the Strengthening Partnerships, Results, and Innovations in Nutrition Globally Project and the Integrating Gender and Nutrition within Agricultural Extension Services Project) of key opportunities for technical assistance to USAID Missions to improve nutrition-sensitive programming.

 

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Richard Greene

Richard Greene

USAID Bureau for Food Security

Richard Greene serves as the senior deputy assistant to the administrator in USAID's Bureau for Food Security. During more than 35 years of work in health development—30 of those with USAID—Greene has served on projects in more than 20 countries. From 2003-2011, Greene served as the director of the Office of Health, Infectious Diseases, and Nutrition in the USAID Washington Global Health Bureau and from 2011-2013 as the USAID Mission Director in Bangladesh.

Jeannie Harvey

Jeannie Harvey

USAID Bureau for Food Security

Jeannie Harvey is a gender adviser with the USAID Bureau for Food Security, where she provides technical assistance to Feed the Future missions in Asia, Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean. Previously, she served as a program analyst for South Asia in the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Foreign Agricultural Service and has a Ph.D. in International Development and Gender Auditing. While at USAID, she completed the first gender audit of a USAID mission.

Sally Abbott

Sally Abbott

USAID Bureau for Food Security

Sally Abbott is a nutrition advisor with the USAID Bureau for Food Security. Previously, she performed monitoring and evaluation research for the United Nations Children's Fund and served as an agricultural extension agent in Mali through the Peace Corps. Sally received her PhD from the Tufts University Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy.

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