Track record
Conducted landscape analyses of facilitating factors and barriers to young children’s diets, 6-23 months of age, in six focus countries in Eastern Europe and Central Asia (EECA). The landscape work consisted of DHS descriptive analyses, literature review for peer-reviewed and grey literature from the past 10 years, key informant stakeholder interviews with countries, and a desk review of country policies, strategies and programs. Developed nutrition content and messages for cell phone application for the EECA region, that was deployed during COVID-19, and included content on COVID-19 and breastfeeding, complementary feeding, and child growth, tailored to the cultural context of the region and based on latest global guidance and evidence. This work culminated into:
- 1 technical report, 1 regional policy brief and 6 country policy briefs
- A webinar on “Mitigating the Impact of COVID-19 on Child Nutrition” https://www.jhsph.edu/alumni/attend-an-event/spotlight-series/spotlight-series-with-justine-kavle with Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, that featured the development of a cell phone application for parents, the need for rapid deployment of key information to parents to dispel misperceptions around infant and young child nutrition (IYCN) due to COVID-19, and the translation of global recommendations on IYCN and COVID-19 to the unique context of countries in the region
In partnership with Save the Children, Core Group, and Medair, Kavle Consulting LLC developed two tools, two case studies, three briefs and a report for an Office of Foreign and Disaster Assistance (OFDA) funded “Addressing Gaps in the Evidence for Health and Nutrition in the Humanitarian-Development Nexus” to guide planning and implementation of humanitarian transitions from emergencies to routine services and the adaptation of community-based approaches for humanitarian emergency contexts.
- Report: Increasing Global Capacity for Coordinating, Integrating and Transitioning Community Health and Nutrition in Response to Protracted Crisis and in Transition to Recovery: Experience and Lessons Learned
- Case Study: Improving Health Service Delivery Transitions in Public Health Emergencies Utilizing a Health Service Delivery Exit Matrix Tool
- Brief: Improving Health Service Delivery Transitions in Public Health Emergencies: A Health Service Delivery Exit Matrix Tool
- Case Study: Improving Health Service Delivery Transitions in Public Health Emergencies: Development and Use of a Community Health Service Delivery Tool
- Brief: Improving Health Service Delivery Transitions in Public Health Emergencies: Development and Use of a Community Health Service Delivery Tool
- Brief: Strengthening Health Systems in the Humanitarian-Development Nexus Experience and Lessons Learned from Pakistan and Sudan
Contributed to 5.2 million children reached with nutrition interventions in 11 sub-Saharan African and 2 Latin America & Caribbean countries
Led teams to develop:
- 14 country guidelines, strategies, and policies for nutrition
- 12 peer-reviewed publications
- 14 technical briefers and reports
- 10 materials for social behavior change
- 6 global guidance materials
Contributed to success in nutrition in 5 countries in sub-Saharan Africa and the Middle East
Developed:
- 11 technical briefers and reports
- 4 peer-reviewed publications
- 3 country-based SBCC materials
Leadership in monitoring and evaluation for scale-up activities contributed to:
7 operations research studies examining the scale-up of
family planning5 in sub-Saharan Africa and Latin America