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Workflow for High-Quality Nutrition Social and Behavior Change
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Social and Behavior Change and GenderBehavior Change for Nutrition
Social and behavior change (SBC) is fundamental to achieving positive nutrition outcomes. This workflow diagram will help nutrition planners and practitioners find practical SBC tools to use at each step of a project cycle. The tools and accompanying use case examples will help implementers and planners apply best practice for greater social and behavior change.
Social and Behavior Change Parameters for Resilience and Food Security Activities during Refine and Implement
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Social and Behavior Change and GenderBehavior Change for NutritionProgram DesignResilienceResilience and Food Security Activity (RFSA)
The purpose of this document is to describe USAID Bureau for Humanitarian Assistance (BHA) expectations for how Resilience and Food Security Activities (RFSA) implementing partners (IPs) could address social and behavior change (SBC) in the refine and implement (R&I) phase of the co-creation process with USAID.
Design Innovations Resource Collection: Bringing Emotional Intelligence to Nutrition Social and Behavior Change
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Social and Behavior Change and GenderBehavior Change for Nutrition
If you are a social and behavior change (SBC) professional working within nutrition programs, this resource collection is for you. Access these resources for inspiration and techniques to solve a challenge or “level up” for greater effectiveness in your nutrition program or services.
How-To Guide: Audience Segmentation for Nutrition Social and Behavior Change
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Social and Behavior Change and GenderBehavior Change for Nutrition
This how-to guide walks you through the essential, basic process of audience segmentation necessary for all nutrition programs and services. This guide also introduces a specialized technique called “advanced audience segmentation” to use with quantitative and qualitative research data.
Permettre une meilleure alimentation complémentaire : Guide et cahier d'exercices
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Nutrition in Humanitarian ContextsSocial and Behavior Change and GenderComplementary Feeding
Un changement social et comportemental (CSC) est nécessaire pour améliorer toutes les composantes de l’alimentation des jeunes enfants : une alimentation adéquate, des services adéquats et des pratiques alimentaires adéquates. Ce manuel met en évidence les défis et les exemples spécifiques au CSC de qualité pour améliorer l'alimentation complémentaire.
Behavioral Design to Inform Social and Behavior Change for Nutrition
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Social and Behavior Change and GenderInfant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)
This e-learning course offers a practical introduction to behavioral science and behavioral design and explains how to apply these approaches to nutrition efforts. A case study illustrates the behavioral design process and guides participants to assess whether and how the solutions presented can be adapted to other contexts.
Stronger with Breastmilk Only Initiative in 5 African Countries: Case Study on the Implementation Process and Contribution to the Enabling Environment for Breastfeeding
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Social and Behavior Change and GenderBreastfeeding
The Stronger with Breastmilk Only Initiative has contributed to progress in legislation and policies, coordination, funding, training, program delivery, and research and evaluation.
Peer Counselling as an Approach to Improve Complementary Feeding Practices: A Narrative Review
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Social and Behavior Change and GenderBreastfeedingComplementary FeedingMicronutrient InterventionsWater, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH)
This review finds that peer counseling was effective for breastfeeding, complementary feeding, minimum meal frequency, and minimum dietary diversity. These findings may inform future programs to extend the length of peer counseling for mothers.
Opportunities and Barriers for Maternal Nutrition Behavior Change: An In-Depth Qualitative Analysis of Pregnant Women and their Families in Uttar Pradesh, India
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Social and Behavior Change and GenderBreastfeedingMaternal NutritionMicronutrient Interventions
This research finds that in India, health worker home visits, convenient transportation, and family support facilitated antenatal care checkups and maternal weight-gain monitoring, but limited motivation and understanding of the importance of checkups represent obstacles to such care.
Mesurer le changement social et comportemental dans les programmes de nutrition : Un guide pour les évaluateurs
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Social and Behavior Change and GenderBehavior Change for Nutrition
Les évaluations de programme jouent un rôle essentiel dans l'amélioration de la qualité et la détermination de l'efficacité des stratégies et des approches de changement social et comportemental (CSC) nécessaires pour atteindre les résultats du programme de nutrition.
Intégrer le genre dans les programmes de nutrition : Guide du programme
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Social and Behavior Change and GenderBehavior Change for Nutrition
Ce guide est destiné aux planificateurs et aux responsables de la mise en oeuvre des programmes de nutrition qui visent à intégrer le genre dans les activités de nutrition multisectorielles au niveau mondial ou national. Ce guide partage des ressources et des exemples pour intégrer efficacement le genre à chaque phase d'un programme de nutrition.
Se concentrer sur les normes sociales : Un guide pratique à l’intention des responsables de programme en nutrition pour améliorer l’alimentation des femmes et des enfants
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Social and Behavior Change and GenderBehavior Change for Nutrition
Les normes sociales influencent la signification et la valeur de la nourriture ainsi que les rôles et les attentes. Ce guide s'adresse aux planificateurs et aux responsables de la mise en oeuvre des programmes de nutrition qui prévoient des activités répondant aux normes dans le cadre de programmes sensibles ou spécifiques à la nutrition.
Integrating Social Norms in Nutrition Programs Ready-to-Use Menu Options for Program Planners
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Social and Behavior Change and GenderBehavior Change for Nutrition
This menu highlights key components of Focusing on Social Norms: A Practical Guide for Nutrition Programmers to Improve Women’s and Children’s Diets. It is meant to inspire programmers as they consider social norms in nutrition programming and is helpful for all types of programs and activities, whether they are multi-sectoral or focused on food or health systems.
Applying Behavioural Science Across the Food System
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Social and Behavior Change and Gender
Successful transition to a more resilient food system requires a better understanding of local contexts, human behavior, and opportunities for change at individual, community, and societal levels. Experts discuss examples of using behavioral science across the food system to improve outcomes. This is a webinar.
Strengthening Social and Behavior Change Programming Through Application of an Adaptive Management Framework: A Case Study in Tanzania
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Social and Behavior Change and Gender
Authors discuss how using the Adaptive Management Framework and the underlying principles of the responsive feedback approach contributed to a project’s success. To be successful, donors and program implementers must ensure sufficient time and resources to adaptive management activities throughout projects and encourage implementers to be open to diverse perspectives.
Rapid Evidence Assessment on Women’s Empowerment Interventions within the Food System: A Meta-Analysis
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Social and Behavior Change and GenderAdolescent NutritionChild NutritionGenderMaternal Nutrition
Empowerment interventions improved food security, affordability, and availability while impacts on anthropometrics and diet quality and adequacy were smaller. Multi-component interventions combining a livelihoods component with behavioral change communication appear to be more sustainable than single-focus interventions.
Effects of Engaging Fathers and Bundling Nutrition and Parenting Interventions on Household Gender Equality and Women's Empowerment in Rural Tanzania: Results from EFFECTS, a Five-Arm Cluster-Randomized Controlled Trial
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Social and Behavior Change and GenderChild NutritionGenderMaternal Nutrition
Engaging fathers and bundling nutrition and parenting programs in Tanzania advanced both gender equality and women’s empowerment more than when community health workers only targeted women.
The "So What": Leveraging Evaluative Data to Adapt Social and Behavior Change Nutrition Programming Workshop
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Social and Behavior Change and Gender
This workshop aims to provide valuable insights on how to use evaluative social and behavior change data to tackle common issues in program implementation.