Track record

Catholic Relief Services Kenya - USAID-funded Nawiri Project - 2020-2021 (ongoing)

In partnership with Catholic Relief Services, Kavle Consulting, LLC is leading an implementation-oriented study examining traditional food preservation methods, in relation to complementary feeding practices for children 6-24 months of age, using Trials of Improved Practices (TIPs) in Isiolo and Marsabit counties, Kenya. This information will be triangulated with qualitative data from elder women, fathers and key informants, which will be collected during both dry and rainy seasons
Study findings will inform on the design of programmatic approaches to improve complementary feeding practices and food preservation processes, which will be rolled out during the USAID-BHA-funded Nawiri project.

UNICEF Division of Data, Analytics, Planning & Monitoring and Division of Nutrition - 2020-2021 (ongoing)

Contributing to the development of the District Health Information Software-2 (DHIS-2) Nutrition Modules in close collaboration with UNICEF. This is inclusive of the development/ inputs to background technical documents, dashboard(s), scorecard(s), and indicators. These modules will harmonize routine collection of nutrition data within health systems of low and middle-income countries.
Collaborating in the development of maternal nutrition counseling guidance – in the form of a brief and a publication

UNICEF Eastern Europe and Central Asia - 2020

– Conducted landscape analyses of facilitating factors and barriers to young children’s diets, 6-23 months of age, in 6 countries in Eastern Europe and Central Asia (EECA). This work was through the lens of food systems, health systems, social protection, and WASH, per recent UNICEF guidance. 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 messages for a EECA regional cell phone application 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 for rapid deployment of information to dispel misperceptions around infant and young child nutrition (IYCN) due to COVID-19. Global recommendations on IYCN and COVID-19 were translated to the unique context of the region.

Ministry of Health Kenya, Division of Nutrition - 2020

In collaboration with the Ministry of Health, Kenya, we documented infant formula industry tactics targeting health providers during the COVID-19 pandemic, and key actions taken by the Government of Kenya to protect and support breastfeeding practices. This culminated in a Healthy Newborn Network (HNN) blog published during World Breastfeeding Week 2020.:

How Kenya is fighting back to protect breastfeeding: Addressing infant formula industry tactics during COVID-19

Core Group and Medair - 2019

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 the transition from emergencies to routine health services and the adaptation of community-based approaches for humanitarian emergency contexts.