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"Grow Together" Campaign in Cambodia: A Game-changer for Children’s Healthy Growth
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Social and Behavior Change and Gender
Grow Together is a social and behavior change communication campaign strategically designed to reduce stunting in rural Cambodia. The campaign promoted the sustained use of key practices in health and nutrition; water, sanitation, and hygiene; and agriculture.
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
Ethiopia Adolescent Nutrition SBCC Strategy
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Social and Behavior Change and Gender
Adolescent Nutrition
This report details the findings and recommendations of a multi-method qualitative research study for social and behavior change communication programs supporting improved nutrition practices among adolescent girls in Ethiopia.
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
National Guidelines on Nutrition Care, Support, and Treatment (NCST) for Adolescents and Adults
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Social and Behavior Change and Gender
Adolescent Nutrition
These guidelines provide the required minimum standards for delivering a comprehensive set of nutrition interventions aimed at preventing and managing undernutrition and overnutrition in adolescents and adults at various service delivery points in health facilities and communities.
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
Breaking the Cycle of Malnutrition: Designing an Adolescent Programme in Nepal
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Social and Behavior Change and Gender
Adolescent Nutrition
This technical update is an overview of Suaahara II project activities in Nepal to initiate an integrated, school-based, adolescent intervention package in coordination with government actors in 84 secondary schools in disadvantaged areas in four program intervention districts.
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
Maternal Nutrition for Girls and Women: Technical Guidance Brief
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Social and Behavior Change and Gender
Adolescent Nutrition
This brief presents information on why the nutrition of adolescent girls and mothers is important, the causes of malnutrition, and the scope of the problem. It also provides an overview of key nutrition-specific interventions that address the immediate causes of malnutrition in adolescent girls and mothers.
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
Guide to Anthropometry: A Practical Tool for Program Planners, Managers, and Implementers. Module 3: Children and Adolescents 5-19 Years of Age
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Social and Behavior Change and Gender
Adolescent Nutrition
This reference offers information and step-by-step instructions on using anthropometry to assess the nutritional status of individuals and communities. This resource can be used to better collect, understand, and use anthropometric data as part of service provision, surveillance, surveys, monitoring and evaluation, or program design.
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
Review of Programmatic Responses to Adolescent and Womens Nutritional Needs in Low- and Middle-Income Countries
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Social and Behavior Change and Gender
Adolescent Nutrition
This is the second of two discussion papers commissioned to identify key issues and practices regarding the scientific evidence, and to summarize recent and current programmatic experiences.
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
Nutrition of Adolescent Girls and Women of Reproductive Age in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: Current Context and Scientific Basis for Moving Forward
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Social and Behavior Change and Gender
Adolescent Nutrition
The Strengthening Partnerships, Results, and Innovations in Nutrition Globally (SPRING) Project and the Pan American Health Organization identified the need for a core set of key practices that characterize the diet and feeding practices associated with good nutrition among adolescent girls, women, and pregnant and breastfeeding women.
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
Iron Needs for Female Adolescents
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Social and Behavior Change and Gender
Adolescent Nutrition
Iron is critical for adolescent females (ages 12–19 years) for their red blood cells and to reduce illness. The purpose of this activity sheet is to encourage participants to consume iron on a daily basis.
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
Feed the Future Project Design Guide for Youth-Inclusive Agriculture and Food Systems: Volume I - Project Design
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Social and Behavior Change and Gender
Adolescent Nutrition
The two-part Feed The Future Project Design Guide for Youth-Inclusive Agriculture and Food Systems (Volumes I & II) provides USAID staff and implementing partners with approaches, frameworks and tools to design agriculture programs that promote successful and meaningful youth engagement with the US Feed the Future Initiative and the US government Global Food Security Strategy.
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
Engaging Adolescents to Accelerate Progress on the First 1,000 Days
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Social and Behavior Change and Gender
Adolescent Nutrition
This paper will demonstrate how prioritizing and engaging adolescents prior to and during the first 1,000 days can accelerate progress on improving nutrition and contribute to meeting multiple Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) (United Nations 2015).
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
Diet and Eating Practices among Adolescent Girls in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: A Systemic Review
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Social and Behavior Change and Gender
Adolescent Nutrition
The aim of this systematic review is to summarize current dietary intakes, patterns, and practices of adolescent girls (ages 10–19 years) in low- and middle-income countries.
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
Behavior Change Interventions and Child Nutritional Status: Evidence from the Promotion of Improved Complementary Feeding Practices
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Nutrition and Health SystemsSocial and Behavior Change and Gender
Infant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)
This review analyzes complementary feeding behavior change interventions aiming to improve complementary feeding practices and child nutritional status, providing recommendations for their design and implementation. This resource should be used in designing and/or implementing interventions similar in nature to the studied interventions.
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
Adolescent Pregnancy and Its Impact on the Prevalence of Stunting: Programmatic Considerations for Food for Peace Programs that Aim to Reduce Stunting
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Social and Behavior Change and Gender
Adolescent Nutrition
In the countries where the U.S. Agency for International Development Office of Food for Peace implements development and emergency food security activities, data show that adolescent pregnancy is widespread—which increases the risk of childhood stunting and mortality for mothers and children.
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
Adolescent and Women's Nutrition and Anemia Facilitator Guide
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Knowledge ManagementSocial and Behavior Change and Gender
Adolescent NutritionAnemia
This module is intended to prepare facilitators/trainers with technical knowledge and skills to train doctors and nurses about adolescent and women’s nutrition and anemia throughout the life cycle.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
The Implications of Three Major New Trials for the Effect of Water, Sanitation and Hygiene on Childhood Diarrhea and Stunting: A Consensus Statement
Early Childhood DevelopmentNutrition in Humanitarian ContextsFood SystemsKnowledge ManagementMonitoring, Evaluation, and LearningNutrition and Health SystemsSocial and Behavior Change and Gender
With the results from the SHINE and WASH Benefits trials demonstrating limited impact of basic water, sanitation, hygiene (WASH) on childhood stunting, what role does WASH now play in multi-sectoral nutrition programming?
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Information Diffusion and Social Norms Are Associated with Infant and Young Child Feeding Practices in Bangladesh
Nutrition and Health SystemsSocial and Behavior Change and Gender
Researchers conducted two rounds of surveys in 2,000 Bangladeshi households to examine the diffusion of infant and young child feeding (IYCF) messaging through interventions targeting mothers’ social networks.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Ethiopian Mothers' Experiences with Micronutrient Powders: Perspectives from Continuing and Noncontinuing Users
Nutrition and Health SystemsSocial and Behavior Change and Gender
To respond to deficiencies in the diets of children 0-23 months old, the Federal Ministry of Health in Ethiopia worked with partner organizations to deliver micronutrient powders (MNP) through health extension workers.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Effects of Nutritional Supplementation and Home Visiting on Growth and Development in Young Children in Madagascar: A Cluster-Randomised Controlled Trial
Nutrition and Health SystemsSocial and Behavior Change and Gender
In this cluster-randomized control trial in Madagascar, researchers assigned 3,738 mothers who were pregnant or had children under 11 months old to five different intervention groups within a larger scale community-based nutrition program.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Degree of Exposure to Interventions Influences Maternal and Child Dietary Practices: Evidence from a Large-Scale Multisectoral Nutrition Program
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Nutrition and Health SystemsSocial and Behavior Change and Gender
Suaahara II is a multi-sectoral program created to combat the high prevalence of maternal and child malnutrition in Nepal. Looking at cross-sectional data from an annual monitoring survey, this review analyzes the association between exposure to Suaahara II and dietary diversity, focusing on three behavior change intervention platforms.