Strengthening Counseling Capacity through Supportive Supervision and Mentorship: Insights from USAID Advancing Nutrition Program Experiences (August 2023)

It focuses on the importance of counseling in improving maternal, infant, and young child nutrition and child development outcomes. The brief highlights the need for health workers to have a solid foundation of technical knowledge and interpersonal skills to provide quality counseling. It also shares the experiences of the USAID Advancing Nutrition program in designing and implementing two capacity-strengthening approaches: supportive supervision and mentorship. The brief provides insights from the program's activities in Kenya, the Kyrgyz Republic, and Ghana, and shares lessons learned from implementing these approaches to improve nutrition and nurturing care counseling.