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With the rise in prominence of knowledge management, communication, and documentation as independent and cross-cutting activities, organizations have strived to facilitate increasingly better documentation practices through capacity building guides and tools.

It is undeniable that the novel coronavirus is imposing unprecedented health, nutrition, social, and economic disruptions on the global population. In efforts to mitigate the effects of the pandemic, many governments put in place severe measures, which extended to the complete shutdown of public and private services in the hopes of halting the spread of the disease.

Often hailed as many a society’s backbone, there is no doubt that women play a pivotal role in the development of an economy.

It’s impossible to pick up a newspaper today and not see some alarming statistics on COVID-19. An example of this includes an April 22, 2020 New York Times headline indicating, “Instead of Coronavirus, Hunger will Kill Us.” The latest figures from the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) indicate that the number of people experiencing hunger will likely double from about 135 million prior to the coronavirus pandemic to 260 million.

The 2019 EAT-Lancet Commission report focused on identifying a planetary health diet for the projected 2050 population of ten billion people. This seminal report was presented in more detail in the previously prepared online module for the Updates on Nutrition series as part of the Growth through Nutrition Online Training program. The EAT- Lancet report emphasizes a diet that addresses human health and planetary health simultaneously. 

“Learning Agenda” is one of the current popular topics mentioned frequently by development partners and implementers. A Learning Agenda is simply a plan for generating important and relevant evidence and then disseminating that evidence in such a way as to encourage its timely use to inform planning, evaluation, and decision-making in programs and policy.

Growth Through Nutrition sponsors local researchers in the field of nutrition through its Small Grants Program. From a group of forty candidates who submitted an array of research topics, a team evaluated and ranked the applications using the learning agenda priority themes criteria.