{"id":11701,"date":"2015-02-09T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-02-09T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.healthynewbornnetwork.org\/resource\/what-is-good-for-nutrition-a-save-the-children-symposium\/"},"modified":"2017-08-21T18:03:51","modified_gmt":"2017-08-21T22:03:51","slug":"what-is-good-for-nutrition-a-save-the-children-symposium","status":"publish","type":"resource","link":"https:\/\/www.healthynewbornnetwork.org\/resource\/what-is-good-for-nutrition-a-save-the-children-symposium\/","title":{"rendered":"What is Good for Nutrition? A Save the Children Symposium"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Investments and interest in nutrition have been continuing to grow since the release of <em>The Lancet&rsquo;<\/em>s Series on Maternal and Child Nutrition in 2008 and 2013, the launch and spread of the Scaling up Nutrition movement, and the increased recognition of the impact of malnutrition worldwide. On December 3, 2014 Save the Children hosted a technical symposium &lsquo;<strong>What is Good for Nutrition?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The one-day symposium provided an opportunity to discuss how we measure the impact of nutrition programs; the direction of nutrition programming in the future and; and highlighted some of the lessons from Save the Children&rsquo;s USAID bilateral nutrition programs, FHI 360&rsquo;s Alive &amp; Thrive program, and the global USAID SPRING project. The Symposium proved an opportune moment for the nutrition community in Washington D.C to come together and discuss the future of programming building on the momentum of ICN2, the recently released Global Nutrition Report, and the USAID Multi Sectoral nutrition strategy. The Vice President for the Department of Health and Nutrition, Robert Clay opened the meeting, and pointed to the importance of reflecting on where the field of nutrition is now and from where we have come, its growing interest and importance, and the shift from looking at specific interventions to the more comprehensive approaches that are now being engaged in to improve nutrition. Robert reminded the audience of the need to be more vigilant about taking the advantage of this window of opportunity for nutrition, to focus on delivering results and build on the momentum of what has been learned so far.<\/p>\n<p>A Key Note Address &lsquo;Growing Children, Nutrition and Expectations for Impact of Interventions&rsquo; <sup>1<\/sup>was delivered by<strong> Edward A. Frongillo, Jr., Ph.D.<\/strong>, a Professor and Chair of the Department of Health Promotion, Education, and Behavior in the Arnold School of Public Health at the University of South Carolina. In this presentation, Dr. Frongillo presented data and innovative ideas and approaches to measuring child growth in interventions and discussion of what the Nutrition community and multi-sectoral partners should be focusing on in future design of programs.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Key messages<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>There is a need for a holistic approach to child nutrition, it&rsquo;s not just about stunting prevention. We ought to focus on healthy environments and well- being for children through to adolescence, and to ensure growth and development.<\/li>\n<li>Stunting may not be the most useful way to understand nutritional outcomes. It&rsquo;s great for measuring changes over time, and regional differences, but not always appropriate to measure nutrition outcomes in interventions.<\/li>\n<li>We need to use a broad set of ECD measures and indicators to assess impact of interventions on children.<\/li>\n<li>Growth deficits continue after the 1000 days period, but better to measure this through the Height- for-Age difference (HAD) measured in centimeters rather than Z-scores.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The key note address was followed by an engaging panel discussion with leaders in the field of public health nutrition. Facilitated by the Save the Children Senior Director for Nutrition, Karin Lapping, questions addressed the direction of nutrition programming, the rise and role of convergence in funding, projects and partners, the presence of Nutrition in the Sustainable Development goals and how we can utilize the renewed focus on nutrition to deliver interventions at scale. The panelists were:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Ellen Piwoz, Senior Program Officer, Nutrition Division at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation<\/li>\n<li>Rolf Klemm, Vice President of Nutrition, Hellen Keller International<\/li>\n<li>Jef Le Roy, Senior Research Fellow, International Food Policy Research Institute<\/li>\n<li>Anne Peniston, Chief, Nutrition Division at the Bureau of Global Health, USAID<\/li>\n<li>Leslie Elder, Senior Nutrition Specialist, Health, Nutrition and Population Unit of the World Bank<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The one-day symposium provided an opportunity to discuss how we measure the impact of nutrition programs; the direction of nutrition programming in the future and; and highlighted some of the lessons from several nutrition programs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7211,"featured_media":11703,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","toolkit":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Healthy Newborn Network<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.healthynewbornnetwork.org\/resource\/what-is-good-for-nutrition-a-save-the-children-symposium\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"What is Good for Nutrition? 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The Every Newborn Action Plan Measurement Improvement Roadmap details the challenges in measurement and provides a multi-year, multi-partner pathway to improving metrics, including testing and standardizing indicator definitions and developing new tools.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=\"1\/2\" el_class=\"issue-stats\"][vc_row_inner content_placement=\"middle\"][vc_column_inner el_class=\"text-red\" width=\"1\/3\"][vc_column_text]\r\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><span class=\"ticker\">71\r\n<\/span><\/strong><\/h1>\r\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=\"2\/3\"][vc_column_text css=\".vc_custom_1513274052338{padding-top: 10px !important;padding-bottom: 10px !important;}\"]\r\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">percentage of newborn deaths that are preventable with access to quality health care\r\n<\/span><\/h3>\r\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][vc_separator][vc_row_inner content_placement=\"middle\"][vc_column_inner el_class=\"text-yellow\" width=\"1\/3\"][vc_column_text]\r\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><span class=\"ticker\">1<\/span>\/<span class=\"ticker\">3<\/span><\/strong><\/h1>\r\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=\"2\/3\"][vc_column_text css=\".vc_custom_1517246179677{padding-top: 10px !important;padding-bottom: 10px !important;}\"]\r\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">babies do not have a birth certificate by their first\u00a0birthday<\/span><\/h3>\r\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][vc_separator][vc_row_inner content_placement=\"middle\"][vc_column_inner el_class=\"text-blue\" width=\"1\/3\"][vc_column_text]\r\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><span class=\"ticker\">10<\/span><\/strong><\/h1>\r\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=\"2\/3\"][vc_column_text css=\".vc_custom_1456360643415{padding-top: 10px !important;padding-bottom: 10px !important;}\"]\r\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">number of priority Every Newborn indicators identified<\/span><\/h3>\r\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner content_placement=\"middle\"][vc_column_inner][vc_separator][vc_column_text]\r\n<h6 style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>All data on this page represents the most recent data available, unless otherwise noted. Please visit our\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.healthynewbornnetwork.org\/numbers\/\">Newborn Numbers<\/a>\u00a0page and download the Excel spreadsheet to explore the data further.<\/em><\/h6>\r\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_text_separator title=\"More information\"][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]See <a href=\"https:\/\/www.healthynewbornnetwork.org\/numbers\/\">Newborn Numbers<\/a> for more newborn health specific epidemiology including rates, trends, and causes of death.\r\n\r\nEpidemiology is the \u201cstudy of the distribution and determinants of health-related states or events (including disease), and the application of this study to the control of diseases and other health problems.\u201d Epidemiology examines how health conditions are distributed among a population and seeks to understand the risks or causes associated with those conditions.[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]The numbers of stillbirths and neonatal deaths, and the causes, are generated through modeled estimates using information from national civil registration databases, household surveys, surveillance systems, and special studies. High-quality, universal birth and death registration are required to provide nationally representative, timely data, and to signify a shift in social norms to value counting every newborn baby and stillbirth. Increasing global momentum to improve the data is important, and highlights the human face of those who are counted the least\u2014newborn babies and stillbirths.[\/vc_column_text][vc_text_separator title=\"Key resources\"][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=\"1\/2\"][vc_column_text]\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.healthynewbornnetwork.org\/hnn-content\/uploads\/Every-Newborn-Metrics-Cards_3.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Every Newborn Metrics Report Cards<\/a><\/li>\r\n \t<li><a href=\"http:\/\/bmcpregnancychildbirth.biomedcentral.com\/articles\/supplements\/volume-15-supplement-2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Count every newborn, a measurement improvement roadmap for coverage data<\/a><\/li>\r\n \t<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thelancet.com\/series\/everynewborn\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Lancet Every Newborn Series (2014)<\/a><\/li>\r\n \t<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.healthynewbornnetwork.org\/resource\/every-newborn-action-plan\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Every Newborn Action Plan<\/a><\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=\"1\/2\"][vc_column_text]\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li><a href=\"https:\/\/apps.who.int\/iris\/handle\/10665\/184225\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The WHO Technical consultation on newborn health indicators<\/a><\/li>\r\n \t<li><a href=\"https:\/\/apps.who.int\/iris\/handle\/10665\/153544\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Strategies toward ending preventable maternal mortality (EPMM)<\/a><\/li>\r\n \t<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.healthdatacollaborative.org\/fileadmin\/uploads\/hdc\/Documents\/the-roadmap-for-health-measurement-and-accountability.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Roadmap for Health Measurement and Accountability<\/a><\/li>\r\n \t<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.who.int\/teams\/maternal-newborn-child-adolescent-health-and-ageing\/epidemiology-monitoring-and-evaluation\/maternal-health\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WHO Maternal, Newborn, Child and Adolescent Health and Ageing (Maternal and newborn health monitoring)<\/a><\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]","post_title":"Epidemiology","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"data-epidemiology","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2022-10-19 17:59:04","post_modified_gmt":"2022-10-19 21:59:04","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"http:\/\/www.healthynewbornnetwork.org\/?post_type=issue&#038;p=120","menu_order":0,"post_type":"issue","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":130,"post_author":"7211","post_date":"2015-10-21 15:20:03","post_date_gmt":"2015-10-21 15:20:03","post_content":"[vc_row full_width=\"stretch_row\" css=\".vc_custom_1453403441710{margin-top: -60px !important;padding-top: 30px !important;padding-bottom: 30px !important;background-color: #ffffff !important;}\"][vc_column width=\"1\/2\"][vc_column_text]\r\n<h2>It is crucial to use tested and standardized indicators for tracking and monitoring trends in neonatal health over time and making comparisons between districts, countries, or regions.<\/h2>\r\nUsing standard measurements should ensure collection of data that can be meaningfully analyzed and employed to inform program and policy decisions.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=\"1\/2\" el_class=\"issue-stats\"][vc_row_inner content_placement=\"middle\"][vc_column_inner el_class=\"text-red\" width=\"1\/3\"][vc_column_text]\r\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><span class=\"ticker\">10<\/span><\/strong><\/h1>\r\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=\"2\/3\"][vc_column_text css=\".vc_custom_1666046459295{padding-top: 10px !important;padding-bottom: 10px !important;}\"]\r\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">number of identified priority Every Newborn indicators<\/span><\/h3>\r\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][vc_separator][vc_row_inner content_placement=\"middle\"][vc_column_inner el_class=\"text-yellow\" width=\"1\/3\"][vc_column_text]\r\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><span class=\"ticker\">17<\/span><\/strong><\/h1>\r\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=\"2\/3\"][vc_column_text css=\".vc_custom_1666046469073{padding-top: 10px !important;padding-bottom: 10px !important;}\"]\r\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">number of Sustainable Development Goals<\/span><\/h3>\r\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][vc_separator][vc_row_inner content_placement=\"middle\"][vc_column_inner][vc_column_text]\r\n<h6 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">All data on this page represents the most recent data available, unless otherwise noted. Please visit our\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.healthynewbornnetwork.org\/numbers\/\"><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Newborn Numbers<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">\u00a0page and download the Excel spreadsheet to explore the data further.<\/span><\/h6>\r\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_text_separator title=\"More information\"][vc_column_text]Several global bodies have developed recommended indicators for global tracking and use at country level. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.healthynewbornnetwork.org\/hnn-content\/uploads\/Every_Newborn_Action_Plan-ENGLISH_updated_July2014.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Every Newborn Action Plan (ENAP)<\/a> has proposed a list of 10 core indicators and 10 additional indicators of impact and coverage of evidence-based newborn interventions. The World Health Organization (WHO) is compiling a list of core indicators aligned with the UN\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.healthynewbornnetwork.org\/resource\/the-global-strategy-for-womens-childrens-and-adolescents-health-2016-2030-survive-thrive-transform\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Global Strategy for Women\u2019s, Children\u2019s, and Adolescents\u2019 Health<\/a>. This list has been informed by efforts to standardize indicators for the <a href=\"http:\/\/unstats.un.org\/sdgs\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)<\/a>, Ending Preventable Maternal Mortality (EPMM), ENAP, and the <a href=\"https:\/\/apps.who.int\/iris\/handle\/10665\/259951\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WHO\u2019s Global Reference List of 100 Core Health Indicators<\/a>.\r\n\r\nEfforts are also underway to develop standardized indicators for monitoring the implementation strength and coverage of priority newborn health interventions:\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li><strong>Kangaroo mother care (KMC)<\/strong>: The KMC Acceleration Partnership developed a measurement framework and 10 core indicators covering service readiness and service delivery.<\/li>\r\n \t<li><strong>Treatment of neonatal infections:<\/strong> Following the recent release of new WHO guidelines on managing possible severe bacterial infections in young infants when referral is not possible, WHO and implementing partners in early-adopter countries are currently working on a measurement framework with indicators. More information will be available soon.<\/li>\r\n \t<li><strong>Chlorhexidine for umbilical cord care<\/strong>: The global Chlorhexidine Working Group recommended indicators for inclusion in Demographic and Health Surveys (see information below on the new DHS optional newborn module) and is tracking indicators collected across countries.<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\nBelow are descriptions and links to useful data collection tools, which include questions on newborn care. More information on mortality audits can be found on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.healthynewbornnetwork.org\/numbers\/\">this page<\/a>.[\/vc_column_text][vc_text_separator title=\"Household surveys\"][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=\"1\/3\"][vc_column_text]\r\n<h4><a href=\"http:\/\/dhsprogram.com\/What-We-Do\/Survey-Types\/DHS-Questionnaires.cfm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS)<\/a><\/h4>\r\nUSAID-supported Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) are nationally-representative household surveys that provide data for a wide range of monitoring and impact evaluation indicators in the areas of population, health, and nutrition. The DHS Phase 7 model women\u2019s questionnaire now includes questions on pre- and post-discharge contacts for newborns, the content of postnatal care for newborns, and newborn care practices. In addition, an optional newborn module is under development with additional questions on newborn care practices.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=\"1\/3\"][vc_column_text]\r\n<h4><a href=\"https:\/\/mics.unicef.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Multiple Indicator Cluster Surveys (MICS)<\/a><\/h4>\r\nUNICEF-supported Multiple Indicator Cluster Surveys (MICS) are nationally-representative household surveys that provide estimates of a range of indicators in the areas of health, education, child protection, and HIV\/AIDS. The MICS questionnaire now includes questions on the pre- and post-discharge postnatal contacts for mothers and newborns.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=\"1\/3\"][vc_column_text]\r\n<h4><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mcsprogram.org\/resource\/knowledge-practice-coverage-tool\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Knowledge Practices and Coverage Survey (KPC)<\/a><\/h4>\r\nThe Knowledge Practices and Coverage Survey (KPC) is a small population-based survey originally developed by Johns Hopkins University and used by grantees of USAID's Child Survival and Health Grants Program (CSHGP) since 1991. The KPC tool was revised to collect more data on newborn care practices.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row css=\".vc_custom_1456358177910{background-color: #ffffff !important;}\"][vc_column][vc_text_separator title=\"Health facility assessment tools\"][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row css=\".vc_custom_1456358191657{background-color: #ffffff !important;}\"][vc_column width=\"1\/2\"][vc_column_text]\r\n<h4><a href=\"https:\/\/www.who.int\/data\/data-collection-tools\/service-availability-and-readiness-assessment-(sara)?ua=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Service Availability and Readiness Assessment (SARA)<\/a><\/h4>\r\nThe WHO-supported SARA is a health facility assessment tool designed to assess and monitor the service availability and readiness of the health sector and to generate evidence to support the planning and managing of a health system. It includes a section on service availability for maternal and newborn health.[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]\r\n<h4><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mchip.net\/qocsurveys\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Maternal and Newborn Quality of Care Surveys<\/a><\/h4>\r\nThese health facility surveys, developed by the Maternal and Child Health Integrated Program (MCHIP), focus on the frequency and quality of interventions that address the direct causes of maternal and newborn deaths and can be key sources of information for policymakers and other stakeholders in country.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=\"1\/2\"][vc_column_text]\r\n<h4><a href=\"http:\/\/dhsprogram.com\/What-We-Do\/Survey-Types\/SPA.cfm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Service Provision Assessment (SPA)<\/a><\/h4>\r\nThe USAID-supported SPA is a health facility assessment tool that provides a comprehensive overview of a country\u2019s health service delivery. It includes a section on delivery and newborn care in the inventory questionnaire, as well as additional questions related to services for newborns.[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]\r\n<h4><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mailman.columbia.edu\/research\/averting-maternal-death-and-disability-amdd\/toolkit\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Emergency Obstetric and Neonatal Care Needs Assessment<\/a><\/h4>\r\nCreated by Averting Maternal Death and Disability (AMDD) at Columbia University, the\r\nEmergency Obstetric and Neonatal Care (EmONC) Needs Assessment is a health facility assessment tool that provides detailed data for planning to address gaps or problems in EmONC services. The tool is currently being revised to include more information on newborn services and quality of care.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=\"1\/3\"][\/vc_column][vc_column width=\"2\/3\"][vc_text_separator title=\"Other tools\"][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=\"1\/3\"][vc_single_image image=\"13807\"][\/vc_column][vc_column width=\"1\/3\"][vc_column_text]\r\n<h4><a href=\"https:\/\/www.healthynewbornnetwork.org\/resource\/saving-newborn-lives-tools-newborn-health-qualitative-research-improve-newborn-care-package\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Guide to Qualitative Research to Improve Newborn Care Practices<\/a><\/h4>\r\nSave the Children\u2019s Guide to Qualitative Research to Improve Newborn Care Practices provides a reference tool for conducting qualitative (or formative) research and planning a behavior change communications strategy to improve newborn care practices.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=\"1\/3\"][vc_column_text]\r\n<h4><a href=\"https:\/\/www.healthynewbornnetwork.org\/issue\/every-newborn\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ENAP Tools<\/a><\/h4>\r\nENAP has also compiled <a href=\"https:\/\/www.healthynewbornnetwork.org\/issue\/every-newborn\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">an overview of tools<\/a> that can be used to sharpen existing reproductive, maternal, newborn, and child health (RMNCH) policies and plans, incorporating available evidence and data.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_text_separator title=\"Key resources\"][vc_column_text]\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.healthynewbornnetwork.org\/hnn-content\/uploads\/Every-Newborn-Metrics-Cards_3.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Every Newborn Metrics Data Cards<\/a><\/li>\r\n \t<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.healthynewbornnetwork.org\/issue\/every-newborn\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Every Newborn Tool Kit<\/a><\/li>\r\n \t<li><a href=\"http:\/\/journals.plos.org\/plosmedicine\/article?id=10.1371\/journal.pmed.1001340\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">New Signal Functions to Measure the Ability of Health Facilities to Provide Routine and Emergency Newborn Care<\/a><\/li>\r\n \t<li><a href=\"http:\/\/collections.plos.org\/measuring-coverage-in-mnch\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Measuring Coverage in Maternal, Newborn, and Child Health<\/a><\/li>\r\n \t<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.biomedcentral.com\/content\/pdf\/1471-2393-15-S2-S8.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Count every newborn; a measurement improvement roadmap for coverage data<\/a><\/li>\r\n \t<li><a href=\"https:\/\/apps.who.int\/iris\/handle\/10665\/259951\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Global Reference List of 100 Core Health Indicators, 2015<\/a><\/li>\r\n \t<li><a href=\"http:\/\/unstats.un.org\/sdgs\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sustainable Development Goal indicators<\/a><\/li>\r\n \t<li><a href=\"https:\/\/globalstrategy.everywomaneverychild.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Global Strategy for Women's, Children's and Adolescent's Health 2016-2030<\/a><\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column][\/vc_column][vc_column][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]","post_title":"Monitoring & evaluation","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"monitoring-evaluation","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2022-10-20 16:44:30","post_modified_gmt":"2022-10-20 20:44:30","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"http:\/\/www.healthynewbornnetwork.org\/?post_type=issue&#038;p=130","menu_order":0,"post_type":"issue","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":135,"post_author":"7211","post_date":"2015-10-21 15:20:52","post_date_gmt":"2015-10-21 15:20:52","post_content":"[vc_row full_width=\"stretch_row\" css=\".vc_custom_1453403441710{margin-top: -60px !important;padding-top: 30px !important;padding-bottom: 30px !important;background-color: #ffffff !important;}\"][vc_column width=\"1\/2\"][vc_column_text]\r\n<h2>Many countries, even those that have achieved improvements in the last 15 years, still experience high rates of maternal and newborn deaths due to poor quality services.<\/h2>\r\nPoor quality can affect the demand for care from communities. Accelerating reduction of preventable deaths and poor outcomes depends on service quality improvements, including addressing health system challenges such as infrastructure, supplies, skilled and appropriately deployed health providers, and management. Quality improvement systems that address both the content and standards as well as the process and experience of care should be an important area of investment during the period of the new <a href=\"http:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/sustainable-development-goals\/\" target=\"_blank\">Sustainable Development Goals<\/a>.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=\"1\/2\" el_class=\"issue-stats\"][vc_single_image image=\"13784\"][vc_separator][vc_row_inner content_placement=\"middle\"][vc_column_inner][vc_empty_space height=\"16px\"][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]","post_title":"Quality improvement","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"quality-improvement","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2016-02-25 15:58:05","post_modified_gmt":"2016-02-25 20:58:05","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"http:\/\/www.healthynewbornnetwork.org\/?post_type=issue&#038;p=135","menu_order":0,"post_type":"issue","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"additional_authors":"","authors":false,"other_organizations":"SPRING project, Department of Health Promotion, Education, and Behavior in the Arnold School of Public Health at the University of South Carolina, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Hellen Keller International, International Food Policy Research Institute, Nutrition and Population Unit of the World Bank","language":["en"],"type":"briefs","external_links":[{"link":"http:\/\/www.savethechildren.org\/site\/c.8rKLIXMGIpI4E\/b.6153021\/k.51E5\/Health_and_Nutrition.htm"}],"files":[{"file":"https:\/\/www.healthynewbornnetwork.org\/hnn-content\/uploads\/WHAT_IS_GOOD_FOR_NUTRITION_SYMPOSIUM_BRIEF_2.pdf"}],"regions":[],"countries":[],"partners":[{"ID":793,"post_author":"7211","post_date":"2009-11-18 19:01:52","post_date_gmt":"2009-11-18 19:01:52","post_content":"Save the Children is the world's leading independent organization for children. Our vision is a world in which every child attains the right to survival, protection, development and participation. Our mission is to inspire breakthroughs in the way the world treats children and to achieve immediate and lasting change in their lives.\r\n<h2>What we do<\/h2>\r\n<img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-795\" src=\"\/\/www.healthynewbornnetwork.org\/hnn-content\/uploads\/2.-Parth-Sanyal.jpg\" alt=\"2. Parth Sanyal\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" \/>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nPhoto: Parth Sanyal\/ Save the Children\r\n\r\n<strong>Saving Newborn Lives (SNL) Program:<\/strong>\r\n\r\nSave the Children's Saving Newborn Lives (SNL) program, supported by the Bill &amp; Melinda Gates Foundation, is a globally recognized leader in newborn health and a respected voice in many low-resource countries. Since 2000, Save the Children\u2019s SNL program has worked as a catalyst towards ensuring that newborn health and survival is on global and national agendas. SNL seeks to achieve equitable and effective coverage of high-impact newborn services and practices institutionalized at scale.\r\n\r\nSNL currently works in partnership with 7 countries to reduce newborn mortality, improve newborn health and bring high-impact interventions to scale. In 4 countries \u2013 Bangladesh, Malawi, Nepal, and Uganda - the program works through partnerships with government and stakeholders to achieve and document the scale-up of newborn health interventions. These countries have achieved substantial policy and system readiness for scale-up and are positioned for accelerated change in service delivery and health outcomes. In 3 additional countries \u2013 Ethiopia, India, and Nigeria \u2013 SNL coordinates with government and partners to develop policies, program experience, and evidence in order to promote the effective and sustainable scale-up of key interventions. SNL collaborates closely with governments and implementing partners, and provides direct support to the design, development and implementation of national strategies and policies to improve the quality and availability of care for mothers and newborns. For more information on Save the Children\u2019s Newborn Health program, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.savethechildren.org\/site\/c.8rKLIXMGIpI4E\/b.6234293\/k.7FC1\/Newborn_Health.htm\">visit our website<\/a>.\r\n\r\nSNL currently maintains the Healthy Newborn Network and strives to establish the site as the \u201cgo-to\u201d resource for newborn health information, data and resources.\r\n\r\nSave the Children also offers technical assistance and support as the newborn health leading partner under USAID\u2019s Maternal and Child Survival Program (MCSP). MCSP is a global, USAID Cooperative Agreement to introduce and support high-impact health interventions with a focus on 24 high-priority countries with the ultimate goal of ending preventable maternal and child deaths within a generation. The Program is focused on ensuring that all women, newborns and children most in need have equitable access to quality health care services to save lives.\r\n\r\n<strong>Save the Children Campaigns:<\/strong>\r\n\r\nAs an independent and global organization, Save the Children has a powerful voice in campaigning for long-term change, and a track record of success. Save the Children encourages its supporters to put pressure on decision makers and opinion formers to change policies and practices, locally and globally, to ensure children's rights become reality.\r\n\r\n<strong><img class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-796\" src=\"\/\/www.healthynewbornnetwork.org\/hnn-content\/uploads\/EveryOne-Thumb.jpg\" alt=\"EveryOne - Thumb\" width=\"160\" height=\"160\" \/>The EveryOne Campaign<\/strong>: Save the Children has launched a global campaign to ensure governments provide basic health and nutrition services to millions of children who might not otherwise live to see their fifth birthday. EVERY ONE is Save the Children\u2019s global campaign to ensure no child under the age of five dies from preventable causes, and that public attitudes do not tolerate a return to high levels of child deaths. By 2015, the campaign aims to have catalyzed a breakthrough in governments' policies and practices that dramatically accelerates sustainable progress towards MDG 4. Follow the <a href=\"http:\/\/everyone.savethechildren.net\/news\">Every One campaign via their blog. <\/a>\r\n\r\n<strong><img class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-797\" src=\"\/\/www.healthynewbornnetwork.org\/hnn-content\/uploads\/EveryBeatMatters-Thumb.jpg\" alt=\"EveryBeatMatters - Thumb\" width=\"160\" height=\"160\" \/>Every Beat Matters<\/strong>: Through this campaign, Save the Children aims to raise awareness among the American public of the key issues related to child survival, engage and foster champions who are willing to raise their voices for children in need around the world, and create a movement which demands that we increase access to lifesaving care so that no parent suffers the unnecessary loss of a child. Every child deserves the chance to grow up healthy, happy and able to reach their potential. Take a look at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.everybeatmatters.org\/\">Save the Children\u2019s Action Network <\/a>for more information.","post_title":"Save the Children","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"save-the-children","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2016-12-12 10:03:13","post_modified_gmt":"2016-12-12 15:03:13","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"http:\/\/www.healthynewbornnetwork.org\/?post_type=partner&#038;p=793","menu_order":0,"post_type":"partner","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":448,"post_author":"3871","post_date":"2010-03-24 20:35:34","post_date_gmt":"2010-03-24 20:35:34","post_content":"<strong>Impact.<\/strong> Alive &amp; Thrive is an initiative to save lives, prevent illness, and ensure healthy growth and development through improved breastfeeding and complementary feeding practices. Good nutrition in the first 1,000 days, from conception to two years of age, is critical to enable all children to lead healthier and more productive lives.\r\n\r\n<strong>Scale and innovation.<\/strong> In its first five years (2009 to 2014), Alive &amp; Thrive demonstrated that innovative approaches to improving feeding practices could be delivered with impact and at scale in three contexts: Bangladesh, Ethiopia, and Viet Nam. Alive &amp; Thrive is now supporting others to scale up nutrition by applying and adapting tested, proven approaches and tools in contexts such as Burkina Faso, India, and Southeast Asia. With its emphasis on learning and innovation,Alive &amp; Thrive is expanding its focus in Bangladesh to maternal nutrition and taking a more multisectoral approach in Ethiopia.\r\n\r\nAlive &amp; Thrive is funded by the Bill &amp; Melinda Gates Foundation and the governments of Canada and Ireland. Managed by FHI 360, Alive &amp; Thrive builds on lessons learned through its partnership with BRAC, GMMB, IFPRI, Save the Children, UC Davis, and World Vision in the first phase of the initiative.\r\n<h2>What we do<\/h2>\r\nA&amp;T aims to reach more than 16 million children under two years old in Bangladesh, Ethiopia and Viet Nam, and to create program models that can be replicated worldwide. In Viet Nam, A&amp;T worked with the Ministry of Health, the National Institute of Nutrition (NIN), the Women\u2019s Union, the Viet Nam General Confederation of Labor (VGCL) and provincial authorities to double the rate of exclusive breastfeeding, improve the quality and quantity of complementary foods, and reduce stunting by two percentage points each year. These objectives were attained through different strategies including policy engagement, interpersonal counseling delivered through two distinct service delivery platforms, use of mass media, and the strategic use of data.","post_title":"Alive & Thrive","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"alive-thrive","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2016-01-20 20:58:38","post_modified_gmt":"2016-01-20 20:58:38","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"http:\/\/www.healthynewbornnetwork.org\/?post_type=partner&#038;p=448","menu_order":0,"post_type":"partner","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":834,"post_author":"2613","post_date":"2010-10-25 19:41:46","post_date_gmt":"2010-10-25 19:41:46","post_content":"<p>The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) is an independent agency that provides economic, development and humanitarian assistance around the world in support of the foreign policy goals of the United States.<\/p>\r\n<p>U.S. foreign assistance has always had the twofold purpose of furthering America's foreign policy interests in expanding democracy and free markets while improving the lives of the citizens of the developing world. Spending less than one-half of 1 percent of the federal budget, USAID works around the world to achieve these goals.<\/p>\r\n<p>USAID's history goes back to the Marshall Plan reconstruction of Europe after World War Two and the Truman Administration's Point Four Program. In 1961, the Foreign Assistance Act was signed into law and USAID was created by executive order.<\/p>\r\n<p>Since that time, USAID has been the principal U.S. agency to extend assistance to countries recovering from disaster, trying to escape poverty, and engaging in democratic reforms.<\/p>\r\n<p>USAID is an independent federal government agency that receives overall foreign policy guidance from the Secretary of State. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usaid.gov\/our_work\/\">Our Work <\/a>supports long-term and equitable economic growth and advances U.S. foreign policy objectives by supporting:<\/p>\r\n<ul>\r\n    <li>&nbsp;&nbsp;economic growth, agriculture and trade;<\/li>\r\n    <li>&nbsp;&nbsp;global health; and,<\/li>\r\n    <li>&nbsp;&nbsp;democracy, conflict prevention and humanitarian assistance. <\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<p>We provide assistance in five regions of the world:<\/p>\r\n<ul>\r\n    <li>&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.usaid.gov\/locations\/sub-saharan_africa\/\">Sub-Saharan Africa<\/a>;<\/li>\r\n    <li>&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.usaid.gov\/locations\/asia\/\">Asia<\/a>;<\/li>\r\n    <li>&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.usaid.gov\/locations\/latin_america_caribbean\/\">&nbsp;Latin America and the Caribbean<\/a>,<\/li>\r\n    <li>&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.usaid.gov\/locations\/europe_eurasia\/\">&nbsp;Europe and Eurasia<\/a>; and<\/li>\r\n    <li>&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.usaid.gov\/locations\/middle_east\/\">The Middle East<\/a>. <\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<p>With headquarters in Washington, D.C., USAID's strength is its field offices around the world. We work in close partnership with private voluntary organizations, indigenous organizations, universities, American businesses, international agencies, other governments, and other U.S. government agencies. USAID has working relationships with more than 3,500 American companies and over 300 U.S.-based private voluntary organizations.<\/p>\r\n<h2>What we do<\/h2>\r\n<p>The objective of USAID&rsquo;s neonatal program is to reduce neonatal mortality by building on and strengthening neonatal interventions within existing maternal and child health programs and linking with prevention of mother-to-child transmission (PMTCT) in high HIV\/AIDS prevalence countries.<\/p>\r\n<p>Key program strategies include treating the mother and baby as a dyad by integrating maternal and newborn programs to support the full continuum of care during pregnancy, labor and birth, and after the birth of the baby with evidence-based perinatal and newborn interventions. USAID programs strengthen community-based approaches and empower families and communities to care for the newborn with simple preventive interventions such as warmth, hygienic cord care, early and exclusive breastfeeding, and to recognize and refer for complications such as infection. The program links communities to facilities, strengthens health systems, trains health providers, and improves quality of care in health facilities.<\/p>\r\n<p>By putting a spotlight on postpartum care, USAID has renewed its program efforts to strengthen the weakest link in the continuum of care to reach new mothers and their newborns for health services and information when most maternal and neonatal deaths occur. In a relatively new and evolving field, USAID&rsquo;s newborn care program supports operations research to guide the identification, bundling, and scaling up of interventions and emphasizes the support of global and regional leadership and advocacy.<\/p>","post_title":"U.S. Agency for International Development","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"us-agency-international-development","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2016-01-21 19:44:00","post_modified_gmt":"2016-01-21 19:44:00","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"http:\/\/www.healthynewbornnetwork.org\/?post_type=partner&#038;p=834","menu_order":0,"post_type":"partner","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.healthynewbornnetwork.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/resource\/11701"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.healthynewbornnetwork.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/resource"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.healthynewbornnetwork.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/resource"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthynewbornnetwork.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7211"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthynewbornnetwork.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11701"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthynewbornnetwork.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/resource\/11701\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthynewbornnetwork.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11703"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.healthynewbornnetwork.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"toolkit","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthynewbornnetwork.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/toolkit?post=11701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}