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Adolescent Nutrition Resource Bank

Improving Adolescents’ Food Choices: Learnings from the Bhalo Khabo Bhalo Thakbo (“Eat Well, Live Well”) Campaign in Bangladesh

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Adolescent Nutrition
The Bhalo Khabo Bhalo Thakbo campaign was a nationwide initiative launced by the government in collaboration with GAIN to promote adolescent engagement to improve the consumption of healthy meals by utilizing social media.
Adolescent Nutrition Resource Bank

Adolescent Nutrition: Current Progress and Looking Ahead, Meeting Report 9-10 Feb 2021

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Adolescent Nutrition
This report summarises the proceedings from a two day virtual meeting of stakeholders from various countries and organizations. They discussed current global adolescent nutritional status, youth engagement in improving adolescent nutrition in specific countries, as well as government and organizational perspectives.
Adolescent Nutrition Resource Bank

Demand Creation at GAIN

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Adolescent Nutrition
This is a technical report on the strategies and progress made in creating demand for safe nutrtious food for adolescents and children under five in Bangladesh, Nigeria, and Kenya. In Bangladesh, through the nourishing dream project, adolescents in secondary school were encouraged to desire safe and nutrtious food.
Adolescent Nutrition Resource Bank

Current Evidence on Anemia and Micronutrient Supplementation Strategies in School Age Children and Adolescents

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Adolescent NutritionAnemia
This review describes current guidelines and recommendations, as stated by WHO, on iron folic acid (IFA) supplementation and multiple micronutrient supplementation (MMS) among adolescents and young children in low- and middle-income countries. It also outlines evidence that suggest that MMS may potentially be more beneficial than IFA supplementation alone.
Adolescent Nutrition Resource Bank

"I'm Courageous": A Social Entrepreneurship Programme Promoting a Healthy Diet in Young Indonesian People

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Adolescent Nutrition
The Saya Pemberani program, which means "I'm courageous" in Indonesian, was a social enterpreneurship program that aimed to engage young people living in urban centers to generate ideas to improve their diets using social media platforms.
Adolescent Nutrition Resource Bank

Guideline: Implementing Effective Actions for Improving Adolescent Nutrition

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Adolescent Nutrition
This guideline aims to summarize the global, evidence-based recommendations by the WHO to address all forms of malnutrtion in adolescents. It aims to facilitate the implementation of various existing guidelines and to identify gaps in various nutrtion-specific and nutrition-sensitive actions for improving the health and well-being of adolescents.
Adolescent Nutrition Resource Bank

Investing in the Now and the Future

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Adolescent NutritionReproductive Health
This brief makes the case for prioritizing adolescent health and nutrition, sets out recommendations for implementing a gender-transformative, adolescent-responsive approach, and provides model commitments governments can make to develop adolescent-responsive health and nutrition systems.
Adolescent Nutrition Resource Bank

Adolescent Nutrition-Developing a Research Agenda for the Second Window of Opportunity in Indonesia

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Adolescent Nutrition
This article describes the steps taken to identify research gaps and prioritize research actions to tackle outstanding gaps in adolescent nutrition in Indonesia. It describes the steps taken which involves a desk review to identify the gaps and stakeholder engagement, and an online survey to prioritize research themes and rank a list of research topics.
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub

Evaluating Social and Behavior Change Components of Nutrition Activities: A Design Guide for USAID Staff

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Monitoring, Evaluation, and LearningSocial and Behavior Change and Gender Behavior Change for Nutrition
Social and behavior change (SBC) is an effective tool for improving nutrition programs and outcomes across a range of sectors from agriculture to markets to health systems.
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub

Measuring Social and Behavior Change in Nutrition Programs: A Guide for Evaluators

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Monitoring, Evaluation, and LearningSocial and Behavior Change and Gender Behavior Change for Nutrition
Program evaluations play a critical role in improving the quality and determining the effectiveness of the social and behavior change (SBC) strategies and approaches needed to reach nutrition program outcomes. This guide supports implementing partners who are involved with conducting an evaluation of an activity that uses SBC to improve multi-sectoral nutrition outcomes.
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub

USAID Advancing Nutrition Ghana Fact Sheet

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Knowledge Management Early Childhood Development
This two-page fact sheet describes USAID Advancing Nutrition's support advancing the Government of Ghana’s efforts to improve district planning for the equitable delivery of services that promote household resilience and early childhood growth and development. The project works in 17 districts in four regions: Northern, Upper East, Upper West, and North East.
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Improving Feeding of Young Children During and After Illness: A Behavioral Design Approach Webinar

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Social and Behavior Change and GenderBehavioral Science Approaches to Nutrition
In this webinar, speakers from both Breakthrough ACTION and USAID Advancing Nutrition shared insights from a behavioral design process completed in South Kivu, Democratic Republic of the Congo.
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub

Conception d'activités agricoles efficaces sensibles à la nutrition: Guide du facilitateur

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Capacity StrengtheningNutrition-Sensitive Agriculture Design Guide Community of Practice Nutrition Sensitive Agriculture
Ce document est un guide du facilitateur pour l'atelier sur le guide de conception d'activités agricoles sensibles à la nutrition. Associé à deux présentations de diapositives PowerPoint, il fournit des instructions détaillées permettant à une équipe de facilitation de mener l'atelier de trois jours.
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Advancements in Understanding Breastmilk: Learning from the BEGIN Project GNCP Webinar

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Nutrition and Health SystemsInfant and Young Child Feeding Recommendations
The Breastmilk Ecology: Genesis of Infant Nutrition (BEGIN) project takes an ecological approach to analyzing the unique biology of human milk by exploring it as a complex biological system.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review

Global Challenges Mean That Advancing Nutrition is More Important than Ever

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Knowledge Management Adolescent NutritionCOVID-19Emergency NutritionInfant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)Maternal NutritionMicronutrient Interventions
The global nutrition community saw the COVID-19 pandemic as a rallying call and galvanized support to prevent backsliding and improve nutrition around the world.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review

Past, Present, and Future: Reflections on Social Norms Measurement from the Passages Project

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Social and Behavior Change and Gender
Experts discuss the current state of social norms measurement, contributions, promising approaches, and future priorities from a range of perspectives. This is a webinar.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review

Marketing the US$ 55 Billion Formula Milk Industry

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Social and Behavior Change and Gender Infant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)
Aggressive marketing practices used by the formula milk industry impact families’ decisions about how to feed their babies and young children. The webinar launching the report is available in Arabic, English, French, Portuguese, Russian, and Spanish.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review

Food Marketing Exposure and Power and their Associations with Food-Related Attitudes, Beliefs and Behaviours: A Narrative Review

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Social and Behavior Change and Gender Food Safety
Marketing of unhealthy foods remains pervasive. This review adds evidence and perspectives on contemporary marketing. Authors provide evidence that supports action to restrict marketing to which children are exposed.
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 Infant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)Maternal Nutrition
This guide is for program planners and implementers developing norms-responsive activities within nutrition-sensitive or nutrition-specific programming. It includes tips and tools to improve program outcomes by understanding and responding to social norms and incorporates background on how to identify norms and monitor and measure change.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review

Maternal and Paternal Involvement in Complementary Feeding in Kaduna State, Nigeria: The Continuum of Gender Roles in Urban and Rural Settings

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Social and Behavior Change and Gender Complementary FeedingGenderInfant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)
Household gender roles influence infant and young child feeding behaviors and may contribute to suboptimal complementary feeding practices through inequitable household decision making, intra-household food allocation, and limited paternal support for resources and caregiving, especially in rural areas.