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Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Integrating Gender into Nutrition Programs: Program Guide
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Social and Behavior Change and Gender
Gender
This guide shares resources and examples to design, implement, monitor, and adapt interventions to integrate gender into nutrition programming.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Enabling Better Complementary Feeding: Guidance and Workbook
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Social and Behavior Change and Gender
Complementary FeedingWater, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH)
This workbook introduces basic concepts of social and behavior change design; implementation; and monitoring, evaluation, and learning to improve complementary feeding practices.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Behavioral Solutions for Child Feeding Before and After Illness
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Social and Behavior Change and Gender
Child NutritionInfant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)
Behavioral design guided the development of solutions that support families to continue feeding their young children during periods of illness and more food in the two weeks following an illness. Solutions also provide community- and facility-based health workers with resources and approaches to support families.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Behavioral Barriers to Feeding Young Children During and After Illness
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Social and Behavior Change and Gender
Child NutritionComplementary Feeding
Behavioral factors can impede optimal complementary feeding—during and after illness. Findings point to how programs can equip community- and facility-based health workers with tools, messages, and other resources to guide and encourage families to feed children appropriately during illness and recovery.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Women's Empowerment, Maternal Depression, and Stress: Evidence from Rural Burkina Faso
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Social and Behavior Change and Gender
Researchers found a significantly negative relationship between the Women's Empowerment in Agriculture Index score and maternal stress and depression. Self-efficacy and respect among household members were important drivers of this inverse relationship.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Efficacy of Behavioral Interventions to Improve Maternal Mental Health and Breastfeeding Outcomes: A Systematic Review
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Social and Behavior Change and Gender
Breastfeeding
Behavioral interventions had statistically significant positive effects on maternal mental health and breastfeeding and most showed a decrease in self-reported depression and/or anxiety symptoms in parallel with an increase in breastfeeding duration and/or exclusivity.
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
What is Social and Behavior Change (SBC)?
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Social and Behavior Change and Gender
Behavior Change for Nutrition
A Social and Behavior Change (SBC) approach is central to achieving many of USAID’s nutrition goals, but what is SBC and how can we tell if we’re doing it well?
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
Integrating Gender into Nutrition Programs: Program Guide
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Social and Behavior Change and Gender
Adolescent NutritionBehavior Change for NutritionComplementary FeedingFood SystemsInfant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)Maternal Nutrition
This guide is for nutrition program planners and implementers who aim to integrate gender into global or country-based multi-sectoral nutrition activities.
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
Nutrition SBC Work Plan Checklist
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Social and Behavior Change and Gender
Behavior Change for Nutrition
A social and behavior change (SBC) work plan should reflect implementation and adaptation of the SBC approaches of a program to ensure the work stays focused on achieving the desired social and behavior change outcomes each year. Nutrition program planners and managers can use this checklist to consider SBC content to include in an annual work plan or assess a draft.
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
Nutrition SBC Strategy Checklist
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Social and Behavior Change and Gender
Behavior Change for Nutrition
A social and behavior change strategy provides a “road map” to achieve key social and behavioral outcomes. Nutrition program planners can use this checklist to prepare and outline a new SBC strategy under development.
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
SBC Formative Research Decision Tree
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Social and Behavior Change and Gender
Behavior Change for Nutrition
Nutrition programmers can use this tool to select one or more research methods when gathering information needed to design any nutrition social and behavior change program or activity. It guides users in following these three key steps to selecting research methods that answer their research questions.
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
Behavioral Barriers to Feeding Young Children During and After Illness
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Social and Behavior Change and GenderInfant and Young Child Feeding Recommendations
Behavior Change for NutritionInfant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)
Qualitative research, informed by behavioral science, helps to explain why young children do not receive enough food and breastmilk during and after illness to recover and grow well.
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
Behavioral Solutions for Child Feeding During and After Illness
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Social and Behavior Change and GenderInfant and Young Child Feeding Recommendations
Behavior Change for NutritionInfant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)
In close collaboration with caregivers, health providers, programmers, and policymakers in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), Breakthrough ACTION and USAID Advancing Nutrition used behavioral design to develop solutions that support families so they can continue feeding their young children during periods of illness and feed children more in the two weeks following illness.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Measuring Women's Empowerment: Gender and Time-Use Agency in Benin, Malawi and Nigeria
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Social and Behavior Change and Gender
Gender
Women’s ability to exercise time-use agency was conditional on gendered power dynamics and other barriers within households, which together are related to gender norms. Future research should examine how to measure time-use agency in surveys and should explore patterns of time-use agency among diverse groups and contexts.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Identifying Effective Message-Framing Techniques in Behavior Change Communication for Healthy Diets: An Experimental Study of Promoting Biofortified Maize Adoption in Ethiopia
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Social and Behavior Change and Gender
Micronutrient InterventionsNutrition Sensitive Agriculture
Nutrition education increased demand for nutritionally enhanced crops, while gain-framed messaging (e.g., achieving something) resulted in higher willingness to pay for nutritionally enhanced maize than loss-framed messaging. Motivational orientations and individuals’ risk perceptions impacted the effect of framed messages.
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Social Behavior Change to Improve Maternal Nutrition: Exploring New Resources Webinar
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Social and Behavior Change and Gender
Throughout the life cycle, women have unique nutritional needs, particularly during adolescence, pregnancy, and lactation. Improving women’s nutrition during these periods has multiple benefits for maternal health and wellbeing, newborn and young child survival, health and nutrition, all producing positive effects on the next generations.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Illustrative Behaviors to Improve Nutrition-Sensitive Agriculture
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Social and Behavior Change and Gender
Food SafetyNutrition Sensitive AgriculturePrivate-Sector EngagementWater, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH)
This tool highlights behaviors related to food supply, food environment, and food and water use and presents examples of what is required to ensure behaviors are nutrition sensitive. It will help activity designers and implementers design more effective approaches to increase the adoption of behaviors to improve nutrition outcomes.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Association Between Intimate Partner Violence and Nutritional Status of Married Nepalese Women
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Social and Behavior Change and Gender
AnemiaGenderMaternal Nutrition
Emotional and physical intimate partner violence (IPV) was significantly associated with increased risk of overweight/obesity, sexual IPV was significantly associated with increased risk of underweight (measured by body mass index), and controlling behavior was significantly associated with increased risk of anemia.
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
Illustrative Behaviors to Improve Nutrition-Sensitive Agriculture
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Nutrition-Sensitive Agriculture Design Guide Community of PracticeSocial and Behavior Change and Gender
Behavior Change for NutritionNutrition Sensitive Agriculture
Food systems are the backbone of global diets. This tool provides an illustrative list of evidence-based nutrition-sensitive behaviors to spark ideas and discussion among activity designers and implementers. While this list can be used as a standalone resource, it also serves as a companion piece to USAID’s Designing Effective Nutrition-Sensitive Agriculture Activities Guide.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Fathers’ Complementary Feeding Support Strengthens the Association Between Mothers’ Decision-Making Autonomy and Optimal Complementary Feeding in Nigeria
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Social and Behavior Change and Gender
Complementary Feeding
High levels of fathers’ support in Nigeria strengthened the association between mothers’ decision-making autonomy and minimum meal frequency, minimum acceptable diet, and feeding children fish.