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Exploring the Influence of Social Norms on Complementary Feeding: A Scoping Review of Observational, Intervention, and Effectiveness Studies
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Social and Behavior Change and Gender
The influence of social norms on child feeding is recognized, but guidance is lacking on how to address norms and related perceptions that hinder or support positive nutrition practices.
Adolescent Nutrition Resource Bank
USAID/Lishe Endelevu’s Adolescent Nutrition Social and Behavior Change Communication Resources Bank
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Adolescent Nutrition
This resource was developed under the USAID-funded Lishe Endelevu Activity for a Social and Behavior Change Communication project, which targeted girls 15–19 in Tanzania. Materials were adapted from Growth Through Nutrition (Ethiopia). Resources include a a Swahili language training guide, posters, and games aimed at improving nutritional awareness, knowledge, and skills.
Adolescent Nutrition Resource Bank
Guía de Nutrición y Alimentación Saludable en el Adolescente
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Adolescent Nutrition
This guide is intended primarily for parents and teachers of adolescents and provides information about nutritional requirements for adolescents. It also describes common areas of concern regarding adolescent nutrition and provides guidance for developing healthy dietary habits.
Adolescent Nutrition Resource Bank
Adolescents: Agents of Change for a Well-Nourished World: GAIN Convening Paper Series no. 2
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Adolescent Nutrition
This report summarizes a consultation that convened researchers, practitioners, policymakers, youth organizations, and adolescents from Pakistan, Bangladesh, Indonesia, and Zambia. The report identifies themes that emerged from the consultation, including priorities for adolescent nutrition, lessons from other sectors, and key considerations for working with adolescents.
Adolescent Nutrition Resource Bank
Investing in the Future of Bangladesh: Cost Effective Interventions to Improve Adolescent Nutrition
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Adolescent NutritionMicronutrient InterventionsPhysical ActivityReproductive Health
This policy brief describes the current health challenges facing adolescents in Bangladesh, including increasing overweight/obesity, even as sub-optimal growth, growth faltering, and micronutrient deficiencies persist. The brief includes six recommendations for interventions, including supplementation, school-based nutrition education, and preventing early marriage.
Adolescent Nutrition Resource Bank
Pakistan Adolescent Nutrition Strategy and Operational Plan
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Adolescent NutritionMicronutrient InterventionsReproductive HealthWater, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH)
The Pakistan Adolescent Nutrition Strategy summarizes the state of health and nutrition among 10–19 year olds, with an emphasis on malnutrition and micronutrient deficiencies. The stratgey outlines three strategic areas, the role of development partners, and monitoring and evaluation strategies.
Adolescent Nutrition Resource Bank
Food and Me: How Adolescents Experience Nutrition across the World
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Adolescent Nutrition
This report synthesizes findings from workshops with 600+ adolescents in 18 countries, in which the participants talked about their diets, nutritional knowledge, body image, and barriers and facilitators of healthy eating.
Adolescent Nutrition Resource Bank
State of the World's Children (SOWC) 2019 Adolescents' Workshop Manual and Nutrition Specialist Field Guide
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Adolescent NutritionFood Security
In 2019, UNICEF, in partnership with Western Sydney University, conducted a series of workshops with adolescents to learn about how they perceive, access, and consume food. The facilitator's manual outlines the process that in-country partners followed to organize and implement the workshops, and includes planning checklists, activities, handouts, and consent forms.
Adolescent Nutrition Resource Bank
Guía de Capacitación en Alimentación y Nutrición para Docentes y Comités de Alimentación Escolar
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Adolescent NutritionFood Safety
This training guide for teachers and school nutrition committees covers topics like nutrition, food safety, and food hygiene and includes suggestions for developing interactive, participatory educational activities.
Adolescent Nutrition Resource Bank
Plan de Capacitación para la Enseñanza de la Alimentación y Nutrición dirigido a docentes de primero y segundo ciclo
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Adolescent NutritionFood Safety
This training plan is intended to prepare teachers to educate school-aged children on nutrition, diet and food security. The guide includes educational strategies and activities for interactive learning and the mprovement of students' nutrition-related knowledge, attitudes and behaviors.
Adolescent Nutrition Resource Bank
ANSHika Samachar (April 2019 issue)
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Adolescent NutritionAnemiaWater, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH)
This newsletter highlights programs and activities conducted during the previous quarter of Project ANSH in four districts of India. Activities include teacher trainings on Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) promotion, peer education, an assessment of fast food consumption among adolescents, and other health interventions.
Adolescent Nutrition Resource Bank
Lives in the Balance: A COVID-19 Summit for the Health and Well-being of Women, Children and Adolescents
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COVID-19Emergency NutritionFood SecurityReproductive HealthWater, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH)
Lives in the Balance was a virtual summit convened to discuss the health and well-being of women, children, and adolescents during the COVID-10 pandemic. Video recordings of the plenary, breakout, and "marketplace" (brief presentations highlighting programs) sessions are available.
Adolescent Nutrition Resource Bank
Rethinking School Health: A Key Component of Education for All
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Adolescent NutritionEarly Childhood DevelopmentMicronutrient Interventions
This e-book highlights the relationship between child health and education, in terms of access to education and ability to obtain the maximum benefits from education. It describes effective health and nutrition interventions delivered through school health programs and outlines the role of partnerships and multi-sectoral approaches.
Adolescent Nutrition Resource Bank
Global Standards and Indicators for Health Promoting Schools
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Adolescent NutritionMental HealthPhysical Activity
This document defines key indicators and outlines standards for health-promoting schools, which leverage the educational infrastructure in communities to improve all aspects of health, including physical, social-emotional, and psychological conditions, and positive educational attainment.
Adolescent Nutrition Resource Bank
Implementation Guidance for Health Promoting Schools
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Adolescent NutritionMental HealthPhysical Activity
This document provides guidance for the development, implementation, and monitoring of health-promoting schools at the national, regional, and local levels. Health-promoting schools aim to provide a healthy school environment that can be tailored to national and local health priorities.
Adolescent Nutrition Resource Bank
Integrating Adolescent Nutrition within the National Development Strategy: "Nourishing our Present and Future"
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Adolescent NutritionAnemiaMicronutrient InterventionsPhysical Activity
This policy brief outlines the current nutritional status of adolescents in Indonesia, highlights national policy efforts to fill gaps in adolescent nutrition, and provides recommendations for future nutrition interventions. It also contains specific information for targeting out-of-school youth and keeping youth in school.
Adolescent Nutrition Resource Bank
Evaluating the Use of a Novel Wallchart Tool to Identify Stunted Adolescents in Malawi - Poster
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Adolescent NutritionGrowth Monitoring and Promotion
This poster provides information on the effectiveness of a wall chart for measurement of stunting (HAZ-score).
Adolescent Nutrition Resource Bank
OG-IFE Update: Adolescent Services
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Adolescent NutritionEmergency Nutrition
These slides provide operational guidance on infant and young child feeding in emergencies, with particular emphasis on multi-sector collaboration to improve adolescent services during humanitarian crises.
Adolescent Nutrition Resource Bank
La Importancia de la Educacion Nutricional (Spanish); Why Nutrition Matters (English)
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Adolescent NutritionFood SecurityNutrition Sensitive Agriculture
This document outlines the FAO's commitment to improving global nutrition and food security through nutrition education. It describes effective nutrition education and highlights several possible strategies to integrate nutrition education, improved food security, and health promotion.
Adolescent Nutrition Resource Bank
Delivering an Action Agenda for Nutrition Interventions Addressing Adolescent Girls and Young Women: Priorities for Implementation and Research
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Adolescent NutritionMicronutrient InterventionsPhysical ActivityReproductive Health
This paper summarizes the evidence for effective nutrition interventions in low- and middle-income countries and outlines policy recommendations and service delivery opportunities as part of an agenda for improving adolescent nutrition.