USAID Advancing Nutrition develops, curates, packages, and shares multi-sectoral nutrition knowledge to help you stay on top of developments and evidence in global nutrition programming.
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.
Scoping Review: SBC in Protracted Nutrition Emergencies
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Nutrition in Humanitarian ContextsSocial and Behavior Change and GenderAdolescent 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.
Social and Behavior Change and GenderBehavior 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.
Measuring What it Takes to Provide Care (Resource Collection)
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Social and Behavior Change and GenderAdolescent 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.
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 GenderGenderNutrition 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.
Resources for Community Health Workers: Strengthening Nutrition Counseling through Empathetic Care
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Social and Behavior Change and GenderInfant 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.
Women’s Empowerment: An Essential Ingredient for Improved Nutrition in India
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Social and Behavior Change and GenderWastingAdolescent 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.
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 GenderFood 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.
Nourishing Connections: Community Health Worker Job Aid
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Social and Behavior Change and GenderGenderInfant 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.
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 GenderGender
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.
Exemples de comportements pour améliorer l’agriculture sensible à la nutrition
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Social and Behavior Change and GenderBehavior 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.
Changement social et comportemental (CSC) en matière de nutrition: Liste de contrôle de la stratégie
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Social and Behavior Change and GenderBehavior 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.
Prioriser les comportements nutritionnels multisectoriels
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Social and Behavior Change and GenderBehavior 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.
Nutrition and Health SystemsSocial and Behavior Change and GenderBehavior 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.
Sustainability and Scalability of Egg Consumption in Burkina Faso for Infant and Young Child Feeding
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Social and Behavior Change and GenderInfant 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.
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 GenderAdolescent 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.
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 GenderComplementary 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.
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 GenderFood 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.
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 GenderEarly 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.
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.