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Formative Research on Adolescent Health and Nutrition in Udaypur District of Nepal: Proposal
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Adolescent NutritionAnemia
This research proposal proposes conducting formative research to learn about the experiences and preferences of girls ages 10 to 19 in Nepal, specifically with regard to their information needs, preferences for program format and content, barriers and enablers to their participation in health programs, and health care seeking behaviors.
Suaahara II Annual Survey: Adolescent Panel Year 1
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Adolescent NutritionAnemiaWater, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH)
This document is the data collection tool used in Year 1 of the Suaahara project, which focused on expanding health and nutrition services for adolescents in Nepal.
Review of Evidence on the Nutrition Status of Adolescent Girls and Boys in Pakistan
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Anemia
This report provides a detailed review of evidence on the nutritional status of adolescent boys and girls and the primary determinants of adolescent malnutrition in Pakistan. The authors use this information to help identify and prioritize critical data gaps and shape recommendations for future policies and programs.
Framework for Action Policies and Programmes: A Policy Paper on Adolescent Nutrition in Pakistan
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Adolescent Nutrition
This report describes global and regional best practices to improve adolescent nutrition, and provides a Framework of Action for future adolescent nutrition policies and programming in Pakistan.
Prévalence et Facteurs Associés à l’Anémie Chez les Adolescentes et Adolescents Scolarisés dans la Région de l’Est au Burkina Faso (Prevalence and Factors Associated with Adolescent Anemia in the Eastern Region of Burkina Faso)
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Adolescent NutritionAnemia
This study explores the prevalence and factors associated with anemia in adolescents in the Eastern region of Burkino Faso. The report presents a situation analysis of the issue and outlines the determinants and factors that contribute to high rates of anemia among adolescents.
The National Nutrition Policy of Sri Lanka (2010-2018) includes a focus on adolescent undernutrition and obesity. The majority of interventions are implemented in the school setting to establish a positive nutrition enabling environment there.
The Zimbabwe National Nutrition Strategy 2014-2018 includes provisions for increasing the coverage of health and community nutrition services for adolescents to 50 percent by 2018. Strategies and interventions include providing micronutrient supplements to adolescent girls, and implementing school gardens with cooking demonstrations and nutrition education.
Promoting Girls' Nutrition in Early Adolescence: A Last Window of Opportunity!
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Adolescent Nutrition
This infographic highlights the importance of adolescence as the second most crucial period of a child’s life and emphasizes that it is the last opportunity to reverse childhood growth faltering. It also emphasizes the importance of good health and nutrition during adolescence in breaking the inter-generational cycle of undernutrition In Bangladesh.
Embodying the Future: How to Improve Nutrition Status of Adolescent Girls in Pakistan?
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Adolescent Nutrition
This report provides a detailed situational analysis and mapping of existing programs that address the nutritional and socio-economic needs of Pakistani girls ages 15 to 19. It also points to practical steps to better understand and address these issues.
The Pakistan Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Strategy for 2018-2025 adopts a multi-sectoral planning and analysis framework. The strategy includes provisions for adolescent girls' nutrition, including micronutrient supplementation, regulation of foods marketed to adolescents, addressing gender equality issues, and health and nutrition education.
Philippines Plan of Action for Nutrition (PPAN) 2017-2022
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Maternal NutritionAdolescent NutritionFood Safety
The Philippines Plan of Action for Nutrition for 2017-2022 focuses on the first 1,000 days of life, the provision of nutrition-specific and nutrition-sensitive programs, and reaching geographically isolated and disadvantaged areas and indigenous people.
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.
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.
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.
The document is India's National Nutrition Strategy for 2017-2022. A major target of the strategy is to reduce the prevalence of anemia among young children, adolescent girls, and WRA by 2022.
A Strategic Approach to Reproductive, Maternal, Newborn, Child, and Adolescent Health (RMNCH+A) in India
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Adolescent NutritionMaternal Nutrition
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.
Maternal, Infant and Young Child Nutrition (MIYCN) Policy, Maharashtra
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Adolescent NutritionAnemiaMaternal Nutrition
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.
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.
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.