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Delivering an Action Agenda for Nutrition Interventions Addressing Adolescent Girls and Young Women: Priorities for Implementation and Research
Journal Article published by Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences in
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.
Weekly Iron Folic Acid Supplementation for Prevention and Reduction of Anaemia among School-going Adolescent Girls (MITRA Youth) Activity Design Document
Reference Material published by Australia Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade in
The MITRA Youth program design document describes how Nutrition International is expanding pilot work on the MITRA program to improve the nutritional status of adolescent girls aged 15-18 years in two provinces in Indonesia. MITRA Youth focuses on the distribution and uptake of weekly iron folic acid supplements through secondary schools for…
Nutrition Care, Support, and Treatment for Adolescents and Adults: Training for Facility-Based Service Providers—Participant’s Manual: Module 3. Nutrition Counselling and Education
Training Material published by Ministry of Health in
This training manual was developed by the Government of Malawi with support from USAID. It aims to guide facility-based service providers on how to effectively counsel adolescents on nutrition-related topics.
Global Accelerated Action for the Health of Adolescents (AA-HA!): Guidance to Support Country Implementation
Guideline/Guidance published by WHO in
This report focuses on strategies for planning, implementing, monitoring, and evaluating adolescent health programs. It describes key steps in understanding a country’s epidemiological profile, undertaking a landscape analysis, conducting a consultative process for setting priorities, and planning, implementing, monitoring, and evaluating national…
Results and Lessons Learned from WFP's Efforts to Support Adolescent Girls in Niger
Occasional Paper published by Emergency Nutrition Network (ENN) in
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…
Dietary Guidelines for School Aged Children in Cambodia (Booklet for Secondary Students)
Guideline/Guidance published by Ministry of Health, Cambodia in
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.
Delivering an Action Agenda for Nutrition Interventions Addressing Adolescent Girls and Young Women
Journal Article published by Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences in
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.
Bangladesh Second National Nutrition Plan 2016-2025
Policy published by Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of Bangladesh in
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…