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Illustrative Behaviors to Improve Nutrition-Sensitive Agriculture
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Nutrition-Sensitive Agriculture Design Guide Community of PracticeSocial and Behavior Change and Gender
Behavior Change for NutritionNutrition Sensitive Agriculture
Food systems are the backbone of global diets. This tool provides an illustrative list of evidence-based nutrition-sensitive behaviors to spark ideas and discussion among activity designers and implementers. While this list can be used as a standalone resource, it also serves as a companion piece to USAID’s Designing Effective Nutrition-Sensitive Agriculture Activities Guide.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Fathers’ Complementary Feeding Support Strengthens the Association Between Mothers’ Decision-Making Autonomy and Optimal Complementary Feeding in Nigeria
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Social and Behavior Change and Gender
Complementary Feeding
High levels of fathers’ support in Nigeria strengthened the association between mothers’ decision-making autonomy and minimum meal frequency, minimum acceptable diet, and feeding children fish.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Strengthening Nutrition Interventions in Antenatal Care Services Improved Consumption of Iron-Folic Acid Supplements and Early Breastfeeding Practices in Burkina Faso
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Social and Behavior Change and Gender
BreastfeedingCOVID-19Maternal NutritionMicronutrient Interventions
Strengthening maternal nutrition interventions delivered through government antenatal care services is effective for improving maternal nutrition practices. Continued efforts to strengthen services may be needed for greater behavior change and to address family support, social norms, and other factors that impact maternal diet.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Interventions and Policy Approaches to Promote Equity in Breastfeeding
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Social and Behavior Change and Gender
Breastfeeding
Designing programs based on community needs and wants can increase success in protecting, promoting, and supporting women’s right to breastfeed for as long as recommended or desired. Using implementation science frameworks and theories to address structural inequities will strengthen future studies and interventions.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
The Effect of Electronic Job Aid Assisted One-To-One Counselling to Support Exclusive Breastfeeding Among 0–5-Month-Old Infants in Rural Bangladesh
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Social and Behavior Change and Gender
Breastfeeding
Breastfeeding counseling and practical demonstrations are promising interventions to improve exclusive breastfeeding and are scalable within existing community‐based programs.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Improving Feeding of Young Children during and after Illness: A Behavioral Design Approach
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Social and Behavior Change and Gender
BreastfeedingInfant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)
Several behavioral factors discourage and make caregivers feel powerless against constraints to feeding their children well.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Finding the Right Fit: Using Segmentation Approaches to Shape Your SBC Programming
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Social and Behavior Change and Gender
Segmentation methodologies facilitate in-depth and nuanced understanding of individual and contextual drivers of behavior, which can help in designing and evaluating appropriate social and behavior change (SBC) interventions.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Social and Behavior Change Programme Guidance
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Social and Behavior Change and Gender
This document provides practical guidance to apply social and behavioral change principles and approaches to strategize, design, diagnose, and define activities.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Measuring Social and Behavior Change in Nutrition Programs: A Guide for Evaluators
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Social and Behavior Change and Gender
This guide supports implementing partners involved in conducting evaluations of social and behavior change activities to improve multi-sectoral nutrition outcomes.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Factors Influencing the Practice of Exclusive Breastfeeding and Other Infant Feeding Practices in the First Six Months of Life in West and Central Africa
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Social and Behavior Change and Gender
BreastfeedingInfant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)
It is important to identify and understand motivations of people who influence infant feeding and care practices as well as factors that facilitate and prevent exclusive breastfeeding when designing interventions. Social and behavior change interventions grounded in this understanding are critical to tailor responses that are respectful, genuine, and acceptable to the families and communities.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Qualitative Evidence for Improved Caring, Feeding and Food Production Practices after Nutrition-Sensitive Agriculture Interventions in Rural Vietnam
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Social and Behavior Change and Gender
Nutrition Sensitive Agriculture
Nutrition-sensitive agriculture programs enhance self-reliance in communities and integrating behavior change activities increases the effect of agricultural interventions on nutrition outcomes. Though outcomes and influencing factors are context-dependent, lessons could inform the design and implementation of effective behavior change strategies.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
The Ups and Downs of Scaling Up: Advice on Scaling Norms-Shifting Intervention
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Social and Behavior Change and Gender
Gender
Challenges with scaling up interventions include transferring implementation to organizations, addressing pushback to changing norms and shifts in political support, and institutionalizing work within governmental social and behavior change programs.
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
Experiences Engaging Family Members in Maternal, Child, and Adolescent Nutrition: A Survey of Global Health Professionals
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Social and Behavior Change and Gender
Family members influence maternal, child, and adolescent nutrition and are increasingly engaged in nutrition interventions and research.
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
Evaluating Social and Behavior Change Components of Nutrition Activities: A Design Guide for USAID Staff
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Monitoring, Evaluation, and LearningSocial and Behavior Change and Gender
Behavior Change for Nutrition
Social and behavior change (SBC) is an effective tool for improving nutrition programs and outcomes across a range of sectors from agriculture to markets to health systems.
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
Measuring Social and Behavior Change in Nutrition Programs: A Guide for Evaluators
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Monitoring, Evaluation, and LearningSocial and Behavior Change and Gender
Behavior Change for Nutrition
Program evaluations play a critical role in improving the quality and determining the effectiveness of the social and behavior change (SBC) strategies and approaches needed to reach nutrition program outcomes. This guide supports implementing partners who are involved with conducting an evaluation of an activity that uses SBC to improve multi-sectoral nutrition outcomes.
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Improving Feeding of Young Children During and After Illness: A Behavioral Design Approach Webinar
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Social and Behavior Change and GenderBehavioral Science Approaches to Nutrition
In this webinar, speakers from both Breakthrough ACTION and USAID Advancing Nutrition shared insights from a behavioral design process completed in South Kivu, Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Past, Present, and Future: Reflections on Social Norms Measurement from the Passages Project
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Social and Behavior Change and Gender
Experts discuss the current state of social norms measurement, contributions, promising approaches, and future priorities from a range of perspectives. This is a webinar.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Marketing the US$ 55 Billion Formula Milk Industry
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Social and Behavior Change and Gender
Infant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)
Aggressive marketing practices used by the formula milk industry impact families’ decisions about how to feed their babies and young children. The webinar launching the report is available in Arabic, English, French, Portuguese, Russian, and Spanish.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Food Marketing Exposure and Power and their Associations with Food-Related Attitudes, Beliefs and Behaviours: A Narrative Review
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Social and Behavior Change and Gender
Food Safety
Marketing of unhealthy foods remains pervasive. This review adds evidence and perspectives on contemporary marketing. Authors provide evidence that supports action to restrict marketing to which children are exposed.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Focusing on Social Norms: A Practical Guide for Nutrition Programmers to Improve Women’s and Children’s Diets
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Social and Behavior Change and Gender
Infant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)Maternal Nutrition
This guide is for program planners and implementers developing norms-responsive activities within nutrition-sensitive or nutrition-specific programming. It includes tips and tools to improve program outcomes by understanding and responding to social norms and incorporates background on how to identify norms and monitor and measure change.