This report documents the outcomes and lessons learned from Growth through Nutrition’s First 1,000 Days Program, which includes Enhanced Community Conversations and the use of a multi-media package of social and behavior change materials and...
Over the past years, the world has witnessed record levels of mixed migration, mainly originating from and hosted within developing countries. Individuals and families migrate for a variety of reasons, some choose to leave to seek education and...
On February 28, 2020, Tufts University, a Growth through Nutrition implementing partner, brought together over 40 participants from different nutrition projects to present and discuss two inter-related gender topics. This presentation shares the...
COVID-19 outbreak has presented an unprecedented impact on the livelihoods of millions of children and their parents around the world. The disease is spreading at an alarming rate. By 23rd July, 15 406 223 million people were infected globally and...
Malawi has one of the highest rates of preterm birth in the world at an estimated 10.5% of live births occurring before 37 completed weeks of pregnancy.1 A myriad of factors contributes to the high levels of preterm births and related deaths,...
This publication highlights our program activities from January to August 2020: such as door to door immunization supporting declining vaccination rates amid COVID-19 pandemic, Community Health Volunteers extending services to children living with...
In Africa, the Protocol to the African Charter on the Rights of Women in Africa (known as ‘the Maputo Protocol’) was adopted on 11 July 2003 to ensure and advance African Women’s Rights. Close to two decades since the adoption, this...
By 2035, the number of young people joining the working age population is projected to reach 1.5 billion globally, and yet, youth unemployment is already an acute challenge across low and middle-income countries. Through its Adolescent Skills for...
This document summarizes a quasi-experimental study Tufts University conducted to evaluate the added value of virtual facilitator as an SBCC approach to improve IYCF, women’s diet diversity, women’s empowerment, and WASH practices of...
In early April 2020, to halt the spread of COVID-19, an estimated 1.6 billion learners globally – 91% of the total – were out of school. For the first time in human history, an entire generation of children globally have had their education...