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Evidence of Effective Approaches to Social and Behavior Change Communication for Preventing and Reducing Stunting and Anemia
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Social and Behavior Change and Gender
Micronutrient Interventions
In an effort to support governments and other stakeholders in their delivery of high-impact nutrition practices, the Strengthening Partnerships, Results, and Innovations in Nutrition Globally (SPRING) Project conducted a systematic review of peer-reviewed evidence regarding the effectiveness of social and behavior change communication approaches to increase the uptake of three key nutrition beh
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Do's and Don'ts for Engaging Men and Boys
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Social and Behavior Change and Gender
A practical job aid for decision-making about programs, policy, media coverage, research, and funding priorities, this two-page document details recent lessons learned and best practices for engaging males in health promotion and gender equity work across health areas.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Maternal Exposure to Intimate Partner Violence and Breastfeeding Practices in 51 Low-Income and Middle-Income Countries: A Population-Based Cross-Sectional Study
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Nutrition and Health SystemsSocial and Behavior Change and Gender
The effect of intimate partner violence (IPV) on breastfeeding practices has not been adequately studied. To help fill this knowledge gap, the authors examined population-based cross-sectional demographic and health surveys from 51 low- and middle-income countries around the globe, looking at data on IPV and breastfeeding practices.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Fathers' Nutrition Knowledge is Associated with Household's, Women's, and Child's Dietary Diversity in the Agriculture to Nutrition Study in Ethiopia
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Nutrition and Health SystemsSocial and Behavior Change and Gender
Conducted by the Agriculture to Nutrition (ATONU) project, this cluster randomized control trial examines associations between paternal and maternal nutritional knowledge on household, child, and maternal dietary diversity. Researchers conclude that interventions that engage fathers can improve women’s empowerment and household nutrition.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Male Engagement and Couples Communication in Reproductive, Maternal and Child Health in Nampula and Sofala Provinces of Mozambique
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Nutrition and Health SystemsSocial and Behavior Change and Gender
In Mozambique, USAID’s Maternal and Child Survival Program conducted this qualitative study using baseline assessments and endline studies.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
It Takes a Village: An Empirical Analysis of How Husbands, Mothers‐in‐Law, Health Workers, and Mothers Influence Breastfeeding Practices in Uttar Pradesh, India
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Nutrition in Humanitarian ContextsSocial and Behavior Change and Gender
In two districts in northern India, researchers conducted a cross-sectional survey among recently delivered women, husbands, and mothers/mothers-in-law to examine the association between four key determinants and three breastfeeding outcomes.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Food Taboos, Health Beliefs, and Gender: Understanding Household Food Choice and Nutrition in Rural Tajikistan
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Monitoring, Evaluation, and LearningSocial and Behavior Change and Gender
Understanding food taboos and health beliefs can provide important insights into how social interactions affect nutritional status. This quantitative study investigates the influence of gender and power structures on dietary knowledge and practices at the household level.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Gendered Time, Seasonality, and Nutrition: Insights from Two Indian Districts
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Monitoring, Evaluation, and LearningSocial and Behavior Change and Gender
Using primary data from two Indian districts, collected as part of the Farming System for Nutrition (FSN) study, researchers examined the effect of work burdens on agricultural and nutritional outcomes.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Family Friendly Policies: Redesigning the Workplace of the Future
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Early Childhood DevelopmentSocial and Behavior Change and Gender
Most workplaces around the world have not yet adopted family-friendly policies. Yet such policies can play an important role in supporting the overall wellbeing of families, helping them excel professionally, financially, academically, and in achieving lifelong health.
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
Advancing Gender in the Environment: Gender in Fisheries—A Sea of Opportunities
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Social and Behavior Change and Gender
This guide summarizes research on the intersection of gender and wild-caught fisheries, exploring the ways in which fisheries offer important entry points to enhance gender equality and women’s economic empowerment while also contributing to more effective interventions and more sustainable outcomes.
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
Gender Analysis Toolkit for Health Systems
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Social and Behavior Change and Gender
Gender
The purpose of this toolkit is to provide research questions to guide data collection when performing a project-level gender analysis. The tool presents illustrative general and health area-specific questions organized in matrices related to different levels of the health system.
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REALIZE: Social and Behavioral Change for Gender Equity and Diversity
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Social and Behavior Change and Gender
The aim of these lessons is to build awareness, facilitate critical reflective dialogue, and explore potential action to improve gender equity and diversity among development staff and community members, and to identify gender equity and diversity linkages within social and behavior change interventions to increase their effectiveness.
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
Report on a Review of Social and Behavior Change Methods and Approaches within Food for Peace Development Food Security Activities
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Social and Behavior Change and Gender
This report reviews the social and behavior change (SBC) methods and approaches used in 11 programs carried out by the Office of Food for Peace.
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
Behavior Integration Guidance
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Social and Behavior Change and Gender
This guidance helps organizations integrate behaviors into their programming to make the best use of available resources and achieve rapid results. Behavior Integration Guidance (Think | BIG) is a behavior-centered process for reaching development goals.
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
Make Me A Change Agent: A Multisectoral SBC Resource for Community Workers and Field Staff
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Social and Behavior Change and Gender
These lessons seek to strengthen the skills of community-level workers, such as community development agents, community health workers, and agriculture extension agents, so that they can be more effective behavior change promoters in their communities.
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
Ethiopia Nutrition SBCC Resource Bank
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Social and Behavior Change and Gender
Nutrition Sensitive Agriculture
The SBCC Resource Bank is a collection of nearly 60 print, video, audio, and multimedia materials. The materials are designed to improve nutrition-sensitive and nutrition-specific behaviors in rural smallholder farming communities and households in the Amhara, Oromia, SNNPR, and Tigray regions of Ethiopia.
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
Who Eats What?
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Social and Behavior Change and Gender
This video provides an introduction to integrating gender and nutrition within agricultural extension. It explains how to examine inequalities based on gender and position within a household and the type and amount of food each family member receives.
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
Who Eats What - Activity Sheet
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Social and Behavior Change and Gender
This activity sheets aims to help users (1) examine inequalities based on gender and position within a household and the potential impact of such inequalities on the type and amount of food each family member receives; and (2) explore who has the authority to decide and who may be disadvantaged in terms of food distribution in a household.
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
Training Manual on Gender and Nutrition
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Social and Behavior Change and Gender
This training manual targets adult learners in agricultural producers’ networks and community health and nutrition workers in Senegal to illustrate the link between gender and nutrition.
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
The Power of Counseling: Changing Maternal, Infant, and Young Child Nutrition and Family Planning Practices in Dhamar, Yemen
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Social and Behavior Change and Gender
This study was conducted in two districts of Dhamar, Yemen, to inform the development of evidence-based programming to address high rates of malnutrition, short inter-pregnancy intervals, and low contraceptive prevalence in the country.