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USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
India SBC Rapid Assessment
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Social and Behavior Change and Gender
Behavior Change for NutritionCOVID-19Economic GrowthGenderMaternal Nutrition
USAID Advancing Nutrition conducted social and behavior change (SBC) formative research in the three intervention districts of Tinsukia, Goalpara, and Barpeta in Assam to inform the project’s SBC activities.
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
Measuring What it Takes to Provide Care (Resource Collection)
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Social and Behavior Change and Gender
Adolescent NutritionChild NutritionInfant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)Mental Health
This toolkit presents measures of caregiver resources that are relevant to the care of young children and nutrition outcomes. These include mental health, healthy stress levels, perceived physical health, safety and security, equitable gender attitudes, self-efficacy, social support, and time sufficiency.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Intrahousehold Power Inequalities and Cooperation: Unpacking Household Responses to Nutrition-Sensitive Agriculture Interventions in Rural India
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Social and Behavior Change and Gender
GenderNutrition Sensitive Agriculture
Higher levels of household cooperation within the family and women's relative power may influence children’s and mothers’ dietary diversity in Odisha and increase the impact of nutrition-sensitive agriculture interventions. Further research should investigate constraints that families face and how interventions can respond to heterogeneity in household dynamics.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Resources for Community Health Workers: Strengthening Nutrition Counseling through Empathetic Care
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Social and Behavior Change and Gender
Infant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)
This webinar highlights resources developed by Breakthrough ACTION Nigeria using human-centered design to help community health workers improve nutrition counseling. Speakers discuss the Infant and Young Child Feeding Image Bank and how to adapt materials to local contexts and engaged in a question-and-answer session.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Women’s Empowerment: An Essential Ingredient for Improved Nutrition in India
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Social and Behavior Change and Gender
WastingAdolescent NutritionChild NutritionCOVID-19GenderInfant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)Maternal NutritionNutrition Sensitive Agriculture
Participants in this study prioritized joint decision-making between women and men about agriculture-related household assets and women’s use of improved practices to grow nutrient-dense vegetables and fruits or to fish for household consumption and sales.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Opening the Box on How Gender and Intrahousehold Dynamics Affect What South Asia Eats: Why, How, and Who
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Social and Behavior Change and Gender
Food SystemsGender
To better understand why people consume the foods they do, this blog examines issues of food access, availability, and affordability; taste and preferences; power dynamics; and whose preferences matter most. It also examines how food is procured and prepared, the challenges of doing so, who decides why certain foods are consumed, and who performs food-related tasks.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Nourishing Connections: Community Health Worker Job Aid
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Social and Behavior Change and Gender
GenderInfant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)
This booklet provides detailed activities and instructions for community health workers (CHWs) to assess caregiver nutrition knowledge, attitudes, and practices; listen carefully; provide compassionate counseling on child feeding through tailored discussions and problem solving; and develop an action plan.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
The Relationship Between the Gendered Norm of Eating Last and Mental Health of Newly Married Women in Nepal: A Longitudinal Study
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Social and Behavior Change and Gender
Gender
Using women’s eating last as an indicator of women’s status in Nepal, researchers found that women who always ate last had an expected depressive symptom severity greater than women who did not eat last, regardless of household food security status.
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
Exemples de comportements pour améliorer l’agriculture sensible à la nutrition
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Social and Behavior Change and Gender
Behavior Change for Nutrition
Les systèmes alimentaires constituent l’épine dorsale des régimes alimentaires mondiaux. Ce document fournit une liste illustrative de comportements sensibles à la nutrition fondés sur des données probantes afin de susciter des idées et des discussions entre les concepteurs et les responsables de la mise en oeuvre des activités.
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
Changement social et comportemental (CSC) en matière de nutrition: Liste de contrôle de la stratégie
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Social and Behavior Change and Gender
Behavior Change for Nutrition
L’utilisation de processus de haute qualité pour le changement social et comportemental (CSC) est une approche transversale clé pour mettre en place des programmes et services de nutrition efficaces. Les planificateurs de programmes nutritionnels peuvent utiliser cette liste de contrôle pour préparer et définir les grandes lignes d’une nouvelle stratégie de CSC en cours d’élaboration.
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
Prioriser les comportements nutritionnels multisectoriels
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Social and Behavior Change and Gender
Behavior Change for Nutrition
La conception d’un CSC de haute qualité nécessite plusieurs étapes, à commencer par la hiérarchisation des comportements, une étape qui garantit une utilisation efficace des ressources et un impact durable. Cet outil vous guide dans le processus de hiérarchisation des comportements, qui nécessite une prise de décision subjective fondée sur des données.
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
Nourishing Connections: Job Aid and Tools
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Nutrition and Health SystemsSocial and Behavior Change and Gender
Behavior Change for Nutrition
This booklet provides detailed instructions for community health workers (CHWs) to counsel mothers on child feeding in a compassionate way. It helps them improve feeding practices for children 6 to 24 months through tailored discussions and problem solving.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Sustainability and Scalability of Egg Consumption in Burkina Faso for Infant and Young Child Feeding
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Social and Behavior Change and Gender
Infant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)Nutrition Sensitive Agriculture
Mothers who received the Un Oeuf intervention overcame barriers to feeding their child an egg every day, improved their livelihoods, demonstrated motivation to continue feeding their child eggs, and saw the addition of eggs as sustainable. Research to explore the number of household chickens necessary to continuously feed a child one egg per day is important.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Associations Between Dimensions of Empowerment and Nutritional Status Among Married Adolescent Girls in East Africa: A Structural Equation Modelling Study
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Social and Behavior Change and Gender
Adolescent NutritionGender
This research examines how investments in girls’ economic empowerment and access to information may contribute to their overall empowerment and nutritional status, while greater autonomy may contribute to increased consumption of unhealthy foods.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Association of BCC Module Roll-Out in SHG Meetings with Changes in Complementary Feeding and Dietary Diversity Among Children (6–23 months)? Evidence from JEEViKA in Rural Bihar, India
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Social and Behavior Change and Gender
Complementary FeedingInfant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)
This research article explores how behavior change communication intervention in India increased adequate dietary diversity and knowledge and awareness of complementary feeding.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Adequate Dietary Intake and Consumption of Indigenous Fermented Products Are Associated with Improved Nutrition Status among Children Aged 6–23 Months in Zambia
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Social and Behavior Change and Gender
Food SystemsInfant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)
Researchers found a significant association between height-for-age and weight-for-age z-scores and fermented milk consumption in Zambia. Authors call for greater mapping and promotion of traditionally fermented foods and more research to better understand associated health benefits.
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
Learning From Health System Actor and Caregiver Experiences in Ghana and Nepal to Strengthen Growth Monitoring and Promotion
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Monitoring, Evaluation, and LearningNutrition and Health SystemsSocial and Behavior Change and Gender
Early Childhood DevelopmentInfant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)Nutrition Sensitive Agriculture
GMP of infants and young children is a fundamental component of routine preventive child health care; however, programs have experienced varying degrees of quality and success with enduring challenges.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Measuring What it Takes to Provide Care: A Toolkit for Nutrition Programs and Research
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Social and Behavior Change and Gender
This toolkit introduces eight measures of caregiver resources that are relevant to the care of young children and nutrition outcomes. These include mental health, healthy stress levels, perceived physical health, safety and security, equitable gender attitudes, self-efficacy, social support, and time sufficiency.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Integrating Nutrition-Specific Interventions into a Polio Immunization Platform
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Social and Behavior Change and Gender
Maternal Nutrition
Integrating nutrition into the polio immunization platform is feasible and cost-effective, does not hinder immunization coverage rates, and may improve nutrition behaviors.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Focusing on Social Norms: A Practical Guide for Nutrition Programmers to Improve Women’s and Children’s Diets
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Social and Behavior Change and Gender
Child NutritionGenderInfant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)Maternal Nutrition
This guide provides insights on how to identify social and gender norms that influence dietary practices, to improve norm-responsive programming, and to monitor and measure shifts in norms. The guide includes worksheets and a social norms checklist.