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USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
Social and Behavior Change Parameters for Resilience and Food Security Activities during Refine and Implement
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Social and Behavior Change and Gender
Behavior Change for NutritionProgram DesignResilienceResilience and Food Security Activity (RFSA)
The purpose of this document is to describe USAID Bureau for Humanitarian Assistance (BHA) expectations for how Resilience and Food Security Activities (RFSA) implementing partners (IPs) could address social and behavior change (SBC) in the refine and implement (R&I) phase of the co-creation process with USAID.
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
Design Innovations Resource Collection: Bringing Emotional Intelligence to Nutrition Social and Behavior Change
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Social and Behavior Change and Gender
Behavior Change for Nutrition
If you are a social and behavior change (SBC) professional working within nutrition programs, this resource collection is for you. Access these resources for inspiration and techniques to solve a challenge or “level up” for greater effectiveness in your nutrition program or services.
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
How-To Guide: Audience Segmentation for Nutrition Social and Behavior Change
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Social and Behavior Change and Gender
Behavior Change for Nutrition
This how-to guide walks you through the essential, basic process of audience segmentation necessary for all nutrition programs and services. This guide also introduces a specialized technique called “advanced audience segmentation” to use with quantitative and qualitative research data.
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
Permettre une meilleure alimentation complémentaire : Guide et cahier d'exercices
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Nutrition in Humanitarian ContextsSocial and Behavior Change and Gender
Complementary Feeding
Un changement social et comportemental (CSC) est nécessaire pour améliorer toutes les composantes de l’alimentation des jeunes enfants : une alimentation adéquate, des services adéquats et des pratiques alimentaires adéquates. Ce manuel met en évidence les défis et les exemples spécifiques au CSC de qualité pour améliorer l'alimentation complémentaire.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Behavioral Design to Inform Social and Behavior Change for Nutrition
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Social and Behavior Change and Gender
Infant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)
This e-learning course offers a practical introduction to behavioral science and behavioral design and explains how to apply these approaches to nutrition efforts. A case study illustrates the behavioral design process and guides participants to assess whether and how the solutions presented can be adapted to other contexts.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Stronger with Breastmilk Only Initiative in 5 African Countries: Case Study on the Implementation Process and Contribution to the Enabling Environment for Breastfeeding
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Social and Behavior Change and Gender
Breastfeeding
The Stronger with Breastmilk Only Initiative has contributed to progress in legislation and policies, coordination, funding, training, program delivery, and research and evaluation.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Peer Counselling as an Approach to Improve Complementary Feeding Practices: A Narrative Review
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Social and Behavior Change and Gender
BreastfeedingComplementary FeedingMicronutrient InterventionsWater, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH)
This review finds that peer counseling was effective for breastfeeding, complementary feeding, minimum meal frequency, and minimum dietary diversity. These findings may inform future programs to extend the length of peer counseling for mothers.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Opportunities and Barriers for Maternal Nutrition Behavior Change: An In-Depth Qualitative Analysis of Pregnant Women and their Families in Uttar Pradesh, India
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Social and Behavior Change and Gender
BreastfeedingMaternal NutritionMicronutrient Interventions
This research finds that in India, health worker home visits, convenient transportation, and family support facilitated antenatal care checkups and maternal weight-gain monitoring, but limited motivation and understanding of the importance of checkups represent obstacles to such care.
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
Mesurer le changement social et comportemental dans les programmes de nutrition : Un guide pour les évaluateurs
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Social and Behavior Change and Gender
Behavior Change for Nutrition
Les évaluations de programme jouent un rôle essentiel dans l'amélioration de la qualité et la détermination de l'efficacité des stratégies et des approches de changement social et comportemental (CSC) nécessaires pour atteindre les résultats du programme de nutrition.
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
Intégrer le genre dans les programmes de nutrition : Guide du programme
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Social and Behavior Change and Gender
Behavior Change for Nutrition
Ce guide est destiné aux planificateurs et aux responsables de la mise en oeuvre des programmes de nutrition qui visent à intégrer le genre dans les activités de nutrition multisectorielles au niveau mondial ou national. Ce guide partage des ressources et des exemples pour intégrer efficacement le genre à chaque phase d'un programme de nutrition.
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
Se concentrer sur les normes sociales : Un guide pratique à l’intention des responsables de programme en nutrition pour améliorer l’alimentation des femmes et des enfants
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Social and Behavior Change and Gender
Behavior Change for Nutrition
Les normes sociales influencent la signification et la valeur de la nourriture ainsi que les rôles et les attentes. Ce guide s'adresse aux planificateurs et aux responsables de la mise en oeuvre des programmes de nutrition qui prévoient des activités répondant aux normes dans le cadre de programmes sensibles ou spécifiques à la nutrition.
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
Integrating Social Norms in Nutrition Programs Ready-to-Use Menu Options for Program Planners
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Social and Behavior Change and Gender
Behavior Change for Nutrition
This menu highlights key components of Focusing on Social Norms: A Practical Guide for Nutrition Programmers to Improve Women’s and Children’s Diets. It is meant to inspire programmers as they consider social norms in nutrition programming and is helpful for all types of programs and activities, whether they are multi-sectoral or focused on food or health systems.
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Behaviors for Better Complementary Feeding: A Recipe for Success! Webinar
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Social and Behavior Change and Gender
During this webinar, we summarized best practices and lessons learned related to SBC for complementary feeding.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Applying Behavioural Science Across the Food System
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Social and Behavior Change and Gender
Successful transition to a more resilient food system requires a better understanding of local contexts, human behavior, and opportunities for change at individual, community, and societal levels. Experts discuss examples of using behavioral science across the food system to improve outcomes. This is a webinar.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Strengthening Social and Behavior Change Programming Through Application of an Adaptive Management Framework: A Case Study in Tanzania
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Social and Behavior Change and Gender
Authors discuss how using the Adaptive Management Framework and the underlying principles of the responsive feedback approach contributed to a project’s success. To be successful, donors and program implementers must ensure sufficient time and resources to adaptive management activities throughout projects and encourage implementers to be open to diverse perspectives.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Rapid Evidence Assessment on Women’s Empowerment Interventions within the Food System: A Meta-Analysis
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Social and Behavior Change and Gender
Adolescent NutritionChild NutritionGenderMaternal Nutrition
Empowerment interventions improved food security, affordability, and availability while impacts on anthropometrics and diet quality and adequacy were smaller. Multi-component interventions combining a livelihoods component with behavioral change communication appear to be more sustainable than single-focus interventions.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Effects of Engaging Fathers and Bundling Nutrition and Parenting Interventions on Household Gender Equality and Women's Empowerment in Rural Tanzania: Results from EFFECTS, a Five-Arm Cluster-Randomized Controlled Trial
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Social and Behavior Change and Gender
Child NutritionGenderMaternal Nutrition
Engaging fathers and bundling nutrition and parenting programs in Tanzania advanced both gender equality and women’s empowerment more than when community health workers only targeted women.
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The "So What": Leveraging Evaluative Data to Adapt Social and Behavior Change Nutrition Programming Workshop
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Social and Behavior Change and Gender
This workshop aims to provide valuable insights on how to use evaluative social and behavior change data to tackle common issues in program implementation.
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Behaviors for Better Complementary Feeding: A Social and Behavior Change Workshop Series
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Social and Behavior Change and Gender
This interactive workshop series brought together implementers to explore nutrition SBC best practices from a new perspective. Participants learned about what nutrition programmers are doing and how to achieve positive complementary feeding results using an evidence-based, behavior-centered approach through storytelling, videos, discussions, and hands-on exercises.
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
Scoping Review: SBC in Protracted Nutrition Emergencies
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Nutrition in Humanitarian ContextsSocial and Behavior Change and Gender
Adolescent NutritionBehavior Change for NutritionEmergency NutritionInfant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)Maternal NutritionProgram DesignWater, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH)
USAID Advancing Nutrition conducted a scoping review of social and behavior change (SBC) for nutrition in protracted emergencies to help stakeholders in the Bureau for Humanitarian Assistance (BHA). We identified a range of guidance and standards; toolkits; evidence reviews, briefs, and case studies; and project-specific documents.