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Adolescent Nutrition Resource Bank
Fix My Food: Children's Views on Transforming Food Systems
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Adolescent NutritionFood Systems
In 2021, UNICEF partnered with the Young and Resilient Research Centre at Western Sydney University to host participatory workshops with adolescents in 18 countries around the world on their perspectives on food systems, including the barriers and challenges to attaining nutrition food and how they want food systems to change. The key insights and findings are summarized in this report.
Adolescent Nutrition Resource Bank
Maternal, Infant, Young Child and Adolescent Nutrition Action Plan 2020-2025
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Adolescent NutritionInfant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)Maternal Nutrition
This action plan is the Ugandan Ministry of Health's 5-year plan to reduce all forms of malnutrition in mothers, infants, young children, and adolescents. The action plan's objectives include to increase adolescents' access to nutrition-specific services and to strengthen school nutrition programs to promote optimal adolescent nutrition for improved health.
Adolescent Nutrition Resource Bank
Eating Disorders during Adolescence: Nutritional Problems and Interventions
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WastingAdolescent Nutrition
This website is a reference for health care professionals, students, educators, and parents to understand eating disorders and their impact on adolescence.
Adolescent Nutrition Resource Bank
Prevention of Overweight and Obesity in Children and Adolescents
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WastingAdolescent NutritionFood Systems
More than 340 million of children age 5–19 have overweight, and growth is most rapid in low- and middle-income countries. This set of materials includes a program guidance, which guides countries in adapting programming to the changing face of malnutrition, and an advocacy strategy guidance to support UNICEF offices and partners in adapting the program guidance into advocacy work.
Adolescent Nutrition Resource Bank
The Triple Burden of Malnutrition Among Adolescents in Indonesia
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WastingAdolescent NutritionAnemiaPhysical Activity
This supplement emphasizes the need to prioritize investigating and addressing the triple burden of malnutrition present among adolescents in Indonesia.
Adolescent Nutrition Resource Bank
Stepping Up Effective School Health and Nutrition: A Partnership for Healthy Learners and Brighter Futures
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Adolescent NutritionAnemiaWater, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH)
Stepping up effective school health and nutrition is a partnership comprised of several United Nations and multilateral agencies dedicated to prioritizing school health and nutrition on national, regional, and global agendas through a holistic approach of linking education, health, and food systems.
Adolescent Nutrition Resource Bank
Programming Guidance: Nutrition in Middle Childhood and Adolescence
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Adolescent Nutrition
This program guidance provides technical and operational guidance for the design, implementation, monitoring, and evaluation of the following five programming priorities: (1) nutritious foods, in schools and beyond; (2) healthy food environments, in schools and beyond; (3) micronutrient supplementation and deworming; (4) nutrition education in school curricula; and (5) healthy dietary practices
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Systematic review of metrics used to characterise dietary nutrient supply from household consumption and expenditure surveys
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Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning
Food Systems
Household Consumption and Expenditure Surveys (HCESs) can contribute a unique source of nationally representative food acquisition data that are regularly collected in low- and lower-middle income countries. This USAID Advancing Nutrition supported study analyzes past use of HCES data to estimate nutrient supply and evaluate adequacy and overviews&n
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Tanzania’s New National Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Action Plan: What’s New and Why? Webinar
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Capacity Strengthening
Presenters reflect on lessons learned from the mobilization of NMNAP I, shifts between NMNAP I and NMNAP II, and the collaborative process through which both came together.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Social and Behavior Change Competency Assessment: Tool for Resilience Food Security Activities
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Social and Behavior Change and Gender
Food SecurityResilience
A facilitated process helps implementing partners identify social and behavior change competencies of core staff and plan to strengthen and develop skills.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
How Nutrition Programs Can Level Up with Gamification
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Social and Behavior Change and Gender
Finding ways to turn desired practices or behaviors into games with achievable outcomes, providing milestones to indicate progress, recognizing success, giving participants autonomy, and making sure they feel a strong connection to the broader mission can leverage motivation and induce behavior change.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Enabling Better Complementary Feeding: Guidance and Workbook
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Social and Behavior Change and Gender
Complementary Feeding
This workbook highlights challenges and examples specific to social and behavior change (SBC) for improving complementary feeding. The basic concepts of high-quality SBC design, implementation, monitoring and evaluation, and learning can also be used to improve other nutrition behaviors.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Empowering Women Can Improve Child Dietary Diversity in Ethiopia
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Social and Behavior Change and Gender
Gender
The survey-based women's empowerment index assessed social autonomy, decision-making, and attitudes to violence and was a stronger predictor of the change in minimum dietary diversity than wealth, child age, and urban residence. Women’s empowerment should be integrated into nutrition interventions.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Resilient Health Systems: Adaptive Management Tools to Maintain and Strengthen Nutrition Services
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Nutrition in Humanitarian Contexts
Emergency Nutrition
These tools and approaches improve emergency preparedness and support health systems to respond to increased demands resulting from seasonal and unforeseen shocks and stresses. This is a webinar.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Famine and Food Crises: Urgent and Coordinated Action Needed to Avert Wide-Scale Catastrophe
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Nutrition in Humanitarian Contexts
Emergency NutritionInfant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH)
Coordinated anticipatory action and rapid response must be multi-sectoral and based on early data sharing, joint analyses, and agreed priorities.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Fact Sheet: Biden-Harris Administration Announces Plans for $11 Billion to End Malnutrition at Global Nutrition Summit
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Knowledge Management
Adolescent NutritionBreastfeedingInfant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)
This investment will give governments and communities skills and resources to improve health, diets, and nutrition by supporting communities in crisis with emergency food and nutrition assistance. Greater investment will also help build resilient health systems and sustainable food systems to overcome setbacks posed by the pandemic, the global climate crisis, and recurring conflict.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Strengthening Maternal Nutrition in Health Programs: A Guide for Practitioners
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Nutrition and Health Systems
Maternal Nutrition
This guide provides recommendations to add and strengthen maternal nutrition components in programs or services delivered by the health system, including actions to strengthen the overall health system and enabling environment. It includes a program planning process and additional information on collecting and synthesizing data.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Series on Adolescent Nutrition
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Nutrition and Health Systems
Adolescent Nutrition
Adolescents have been neglected in national and global nutrition plans and policies. This series highlights the effect of nutrition on adolescent growth and development, the role of the food environment on food choices, and strategies and interventions that may lead to healthy nutrition and growth.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Integrating Early Detection and Treatment of Child Wasting into Routine Primary Health Care Services
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Nutrition and Health Systems
Rapidly scaling wasting services and achieving the wasting Sustainable Development Goals target requires integrating wasting treatment into primary health care services.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Growth Monitoring and Promotion in Northern Ghana: A Case Study Narrative
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Nutrition and Health Systems
Growth Monitoring and Promotion
Growth monitoring and promotion (GMP) is a common platform for delivering child health and nutrition services. This report highlights findings, challenges, good practices, and innovations that stakeholders can use to foster healthy child growth and development.