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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Delivering an Action Agenda for Nutrition Interventions Addressing Adolescent Girls and Young Women
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Adolescent NutritionMaternal Nutrition
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.
The National Nutrition Program 2016-2020 (NNP II) of Ethiopia includes a focus on adolescent nutrition. One of five key targets of NNP II is to reduce the prevalence of anemia in adolescent girls from 30 percent to 15 percent.
Frequently Asked Questions: Weekly Iron and Folic Acid Supplements (WIFAS) for Adolescents
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Adolescent NutritionAnemiaMental HealthReproductive Health
This document contains answers to 28 common questions about weekly iron and folic acid supplements (WIFAS). The information is organized into the following categories: overview of WIFAS, WIFAS and anemia, the benefits of WIFAS, safety considerations, WIFAS and reproductive health, and WHO-recommended formulation.
Balanced Nutrition Guidelines Indonesia (Indonesian: PEDOMAN GIZI SEIMBANG)
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Adolescent Nutrition
This document contains Balanced Nutrition Guidelines for the general Indonesian public, including guidance related to adolescents. Indonesia uses two food guides, a rounded pyramid shape that promotes balanced nutrition and a plate guide illustrating recommended food proportions.
New Zealand Food and Nutrition Guidelines for Healthy Children and Young People: A Background Paper
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Adolescent Nutrition
This document contains a background paper and food and nutrition guidelines for New Zealand children and youth ages 2 to 18. The paper provides health practitioners with recommendations on adolescent nutrition and physical activity. The document contains information on meal patterns, growth and body size, energy and nutrients, fluids, the home and wider environment, and physical activity.
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.
Addressing Knowledge Gaps in Adolescent Nutrition: Toward Advancing Public Health and Sustainable Development
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Adolescent Nutrition
The article discusses adolescent nutrition and outlines three critical knowledge gaps: micronutrient and macronutrient supplements, food system interventions, and nutrition programs combined with delayed pregnancy interventions. The authors conclude that these three areas offer crucial opportunities for improving adolescent health and well-being.
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.
Formative Research to Inform Adolescent Programming in Uganda: Engagement for Health, Nutrition, and Sustainable Development
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Adolescent NutritionAnemia
This formative qualitative research study, conducted in Uganda, focused on the perspectives, experiences, and suggestions of adolescent girls and their communities related to adolescent health and nutrition.
Results and Lessons Learned from WFP's Efforts to Support Adolescent Girls in Niger
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Adolescent NutritionAnemiaMaternal Nutrition
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.
This report provides dietary guidelines for Pakistan related to adopting healthy eating practices and preventing and reducing infectious and chronic diseases. The sections on adolescents (ages 10 to 19) address recommended energy and protein requirements, food portions and sizes, and sample menus.
Dietary Guidelines for School Aged Children in Cambodia (Booklet for Secondary Students)
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Adolescent Nutrition
This document presents dietary guidelines for Cambodian children 6 to 17 years old. The Cambodian food pyramid is designed in the shape of Angkor Wat. The guidelines contain key messages about the food groups, making healthy food choices, and tracking body weight and height to track growth.
This report presents dietary guidelines for Indians from infancy to old age. The guidelines present visual messages primarily based on the food pyramid, as well as recommendations about regular physical activity and avoiding tobacco and alcohol. The report offers recommendations for well-formulated, balanced adolescent diets.
Formative Research to Inform Adolescent Programming in Kenya: Engagement for Health, Nutrition, and Sustainable Development
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Adolescent NutritionMental HealthReproductive Health
This formative qualitative research study, conducted in Kenya, focused on the perspectives, experiences, and suggestions of adolescent girls and their communities related to adolescent health and nutrition.