Improving adolescent nutrition depends heavily on behaviors such as diet and eating practices, exercise, lifestyle, and use of health services. Social and behavior change (SBC) strategies must consider how unique structural and environmental factors that affect adolescents’ access to services and adoption of priority behaviors. Formative research, concept testing, and pre-testing of materials and approaches are needed to identify barriers and enablers to behavior change and to better understand how adolescents engage with family members, friends, teachers, health care providers, religious leaders, other community members, mass media, and social media. The Adolescent Nutrition Resource Bank includes posters, videos, counseling cards, and other SBC materials. If you have relevant SBC resources, please send them to info@advancingnutrition.org.
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Documentation Research on the USAID Growth through Nutrition Activity Adolescent Nutrition SBCC Program: Outcomes and Lessons Learned
Technical Report published by USAID in
This report documents the outcomes and lessons learned from a rapid assessment of Adolescent Nutrition SBCC programming in Ethiopia to identify strengths, weaknesses, and opportunities for improvement. The findings address the training of teachers and student group facilitators/leaders, actions that teachers, facilitators, and administrators can…
Perspective: Challenges in Use of Adolescent Anthropometry for Understanding the Burden of Malnutrition
Journal Article published by Advances in Nutrition in
This study discusses national prevalence estimates on adolescent girls (ages 10 to 22) from the 2014 State of Food Security and Nutrition in Bangladesh. It emphasizes that determining the true prevalence of undernutrition, overweight, and obesity is complicated by racial/ethnic variation across populations in timing of the adolescent growth spurt…
ANSHika Samachar (April 2019 issue)
Information, Education and Communication Materials published by JSI R&T India Foundation in
This newsletter highlights programs and activities conducted during the previous quarter of Project ANSH in four districts of India. Activities include teacher trainings on Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) promotion, peer education, an assessment of fast food consumption among adolescents, and other health interventions.
Integrating Adolescent Nutrition within the National Development Strategy: "Nourishing our Present and Future"
Policy published by Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN), Nutrition International, UNICEF in
This policy brief outlines the current nutritional status of adolescents in Indonesia, highlights national policy efforts to fill gaps in adolescent nutrition, and provides recommendations for future nutrition interventions. It also contains specific information for targeting out-of-school youth and keeping youth in school.
Adolescents: Agents of Change for a Well-Nourished World: GAIN Convening Paper Series no. 2
Occasional Paper published by Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN), WHO in
This report summarizes a consultation that convened researchers, practitioners, policymakers, youth organizations, and adolescents from Pakistan, Bangladesh, Indonesia, and Zambia. The report identifies themes that emerged from the consultation, including priorities for adolescent nutrition, lessons from other sectors, and key considerations for…
Aksi Bergizi: Starting a Healthy Life Now for Today's Adolescents
Training Material published by Ministry of Health in
This toolkit includes an impact evaluation of the Aksi Bergizi pilot programme, facilitator and student guides, the social and behavior change communication strategy, and additional intervention resources (available in Indonesian only).Aksi Bergizi includes three evidence-based interventions including weekly iron–folic acid supplementation, school…
Social and Behavior Change Communication Strategy: Maternal and Child Nutrition During the First 1000 Days and Adolescent Girls’ Nutrition
Technical Report published by Manoff Group, Save the Children, USAID in
This report documents the outcomes and lessons learned from a rapid assessment of Growth through Nutrition’s adolescent girl nutrition SBCC strategy programming in Ethiopia. The report's recommendations focus on the training of teachers and student group leaders/facilitators; actions that teachers, facilitators, and program administrators can…
Adolescent Girl SBCC Nutrition Strategy Summary (USAID Growth through Nutrition Activity)
Framework published by USAID in
This document provides information about the USAID/Growth through Nutrition project's Adolescent Girl Social and Behavior Change Communication (SBCC) Nutrition Strategy. It explores the following issues related to adolescent girls' nutrition: nutrition behaviors, priority actors and audiences, facilitators and barriers, messaging and…
