USAID Advancing Nutrition Women’s Empowerment Research
Summary
USAID Advancing Nutrition is USAID's flagship multi-sectoral nutrition program and provides technical support to nutrition interventions across sectors and disciplines for USAID and its partners. Launched in September 2018, USAID Advancing Nutrition strengthens the enabling environment for and supports country-led scale-up of effective, integrated and sustainable multi-sectoral nutrition programs, interventions and food and health systems. USAID Advancing Nutrition implements and provides technical support to nutrition interventions across sectors and disciplines for USAID and its partners. The project's multi-sectoral approach draws together global nutrition experience to design, implement and evaluate programs that address the root causes of malnutrition. Committed to using a systems approach, USAID Advancing Nutrition strives to sustain positive outcomes by building local capacity, supporting behavior change and strengthening the enabling environment to save lives, improve health, build resilience, increase economic productivity and advance development. As part of the cross-cutting Social and Behavior Change team activities, USAID Advancing Nutrition aims to understand how women's empowerment influences multi-sectoral nutrition.