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Adolescent Nutrition Resource Bank
Madagascar Plan National D'Action pour la Nutrition (PNAN III) (2017-2021)
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This document contains Madagascar's overarching nutrition strategy from 2017 to 2021 (PNAN III). PNAN III incorporates provisions for adolescent nutrition in school and community settings, including nutrition education, IFA supplements, and deworming.
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Malawi National Multi-Sector Nutrition Policy 2018-2022
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The Malawi National Multi-Sector Nutrition Policy for 2018–2022 aims to ensure that evidence-based, high-impact nutrition interventions are developed and implemented at scale. The policy addresses such issues as preventing undernutrition and nutrition education, social mobilization, and positive behavior change.
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Multisectorial Plan for Chronic Malnutrition Reduction in Mozambique (2011-2014/2020)
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The Multisectorial Plan for Chronic Malnutrition Reduction in Mozambique is the country's overarching nutrition strategy. Interventions to strengthen nutrition outcomes for adolescents include monitoring anemia in adolescents ages 10 to 19, reducing early pregnancy among adolescents ages 10 to 19, and strengthening nutritional education as part of school syllabi.
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A Strategic Approach to Reproductive, Maternal, Newborn, Child, and Adolescent Health (RMNCH+A) in India
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This RMNCH+A strategy promotes links between interventions to enhance coverage throughout the lifecycle to improve child survival in India. The “+” in the acronym refers to the inclusion of adolescence as a distinct life stage within the overall strategy.
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Maternal, Infant and Young Child Nutrition (MIYCN) Policy, Maharashtra
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This document contains the MIYCN Strategy of Maharashtra, India. Among the strategy's provisions are ensuring that all adolescents have a healthy BMI through education about nutrition, health, and sanitation, and providing adolescents with IFAS to minimize the prevalence of anemia.
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Madagascar Plan National D'Action pour la Nutrition (PNAN II) (2012-2015)
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This document contains Madagascar's overarching nutrition strategy for 2012 to 2017 (PNAN II). PNAN II laid the foundation for including adolescent nutrition in the national nutrition strategy. One of PNAN II's primary interventions is the promotion of nutrition for children and youth ages 13 to 20.
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Ghana Adolescent Health Service Policy and Strategy 2016-2020
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The Ghana Adolescent Health Service Policy and Strategy 2016-2020 focuses on strategies to promote, prevent, and manage the health and development of Ghanaian adolescents. It provides a framework for health service provision and other health-related interventions for adolescents that can be implemented to support progress toward achieving health sector goals for adolescents.
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Afghanistan Food Security and Nutrition Agenda (AFSANA)
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The Afghanistan Food Security and Nutrition Agenda provides an overarching approach for addressing the causes of food and nutrition insecurity. The agenda incorporates adolescent nutrition, including self-care to prevent and treat nutritional disorders, counseling, and operations research to be conducted by the ministries of public health and education.
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Bangladesh Second National Nutrition Plan 2016-2025
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The Second National Plan of Action for Nutrition (NPAN2) of Bangladesh aims to operationalize the sub-strategies of the 2015 National Nutrition Policy (NNP) by specifying key nutrition-specific and nutrition-sensitive actions. Adolescent girls are a target group of NNP and NPAN2, with an aim to reduce malnutrition in adolescent girls to less than 15 percent.
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Gabon Politique Nationale de Securite Alimentaire et Nutritionnelle (PNSAN) 2017-2025
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This document contains Gabon's overarching food security and nutrition policy. The policy promotes the nutrition of adolescents and WRA across nutrition and food interventions, including micronutrient supplementation.
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Guineau-Bissau PLANO ESTRATÉGICO DE NUTRIÇÃO 2015-2019
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This document is the Guineau-Bissau overarching nutrition strategy. The strategy promotes optimal nutrition for children from 6 months to 19 years of age, and advocates for good nutrition practices for children, young people, and adolescents at schools, health centers, and women's literacy centers.
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Nepal Multisector Nutrition Plan I: 2013-2017
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Nepal's Multi-sector Nutrition Plan for 2013-2017 focused on reducing maternal and child under-nutrition.
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Nepal Multisector Nutrition Plan II: 2018-2022
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Nepal's Multi-sector Nutrition Plan II for 2018-2022 builds on the achievements of Multi-sector Nutrition Plan I (2013-2017) to improve maternal, adolescent and child nutrition by scaling up nutrition-specific and nutrition-sensitive interventions and creating an enabling environment for nutrition. This document describes more recent adolescent nutrition-specific interventions.
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Delivering an Action Agenda for Nutrition Interventions Addressing Adolescent Girls and Young Women
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This article discusses delivery platforms and strategies for nutrition interventions for adolescent girls and young women in LMICs. The authors propose packages of preventive care and management that feature nutrition-specific and nutrition-sensitive interventions to address adolescent undernutrition, overnutrition, and micronutrient deficiencies.
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Food-Based Dietary Guidelines for Sri Lankans
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These dietary guidelines are aimed at the general Sri Lankan population, including recommendations for adolescents. The document includes information on heathy diet, food groups, serving sizes, and recommendations for achieving a healthy, balanced diet.
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Adolescent Nutrition Survey in Nepal 2014
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This cross-sectional study explored the nutritional status of Nepalese male and female adolescents (ages 10 to 19) from 13 districts in the three ecological regions of Nepal. Data was disaggregated by age, gender, geographic region, residence, religion, socioeconomic status, sanitation and hygiene indicators, and some food consumption patterns.
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Results and Lessons Learned from WFP's Efforts to Support Adolescent Girls in Niger
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This article describes a U.N. World Food Programme (WFP) nutrition pilot program for adolescents in Niger. The article concludes that the active participation of adolescent boys and girls, women, and men, along with close coordination with government and other partners, can help to reduce barriers to access and influence sociocultural norms related to adolescent girls' nutrition.
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Documentation Research on the USAID Growth through Nutrition Activity Adolescent Nutrition SBCC Program: Outcomes and Lessons Learned
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This report documents the outcomes and lessons learned from a rapid assessment of Adolescent Nutrition SBCC programming in Ethiopia to identify strengths, weaknesses, and opportunities for improvement.
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Social and Behavior Change Communication Strategy: Maternal and Child Nutrition During the First 1000 Days and Adolescent Girls’ Nutrition
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This report documents the outcomes and lessons learned from a rapid assessment of Growth through Nutrition’s adolescent girl nutrition SBCC strategy programming in Ethiopia.
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Adolescent Nutrition in Timor L'Este: A Formative Research Study
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The purpose of this formative research was to inform the development of interventions, activities, and materials that support adolescent nutrition in Timor Leste from an SBC perspective. The study's key findings and recommendations relate to such issues as snacks at school, drinks, nutrition-related illness, cultural and gender norms, adolescent influencers, and communication channels.