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Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Maternal and Paternal Involvement in Complementary Feeding in Kaduna State, Nigeria: The Continuum of Gender Roles in Urban and Rural Settings
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Social and Behavior Change and Gender
Complementary FeedingGenderInfant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)
Household gender roles influence infant and young child feeding behaviors and may contribute to suboptimal complementary feeding practices through inequitable household decision making, intra-household food allocation, and limited paternal support for resources and caregiving, especially in rural areas.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
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
Adolescent NutritionGenderMaternal Nutrition
This research surveyed health professionals to document their experiences engaging family members in nutrition activities, their perceived barriers and facilitators, and their recommendations. Such research fills gaps in peer-reviewed literature to strengthen intervention design and implementation.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Changing Behavior, Attitudes, and Beliefs About Food Safety: A Scoping Review of Interventions Across the World and Implications for Empowering Consumers
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Social and Behavior Change and Gender
Food Safety
While consumers are targeted for interventions to address knowledge gaps about food safety and behaviors that can reduce risk, there are no comprehensive analyses of these interventions.
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
Guide du programme : Impliquer les membres de la famille dans l’amélioration de la nutrition maternelle et infantile
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Social and Behavior Change and GenderGender Equality and Women’s Empowerment
Infant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)Maternal Nutrition
Le présent guide traduit les résultats de la recherche en recommandations pratiques pour des interventions qui impliquent effcacement les membres de la famille dans les soins et l’alimentation des enfants.
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
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
Behavior Change for NutritionComplementary FeedingInfant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)Maternal Nutrition
Social norms influence the meaning and value of food as well as roles and expectations. Updated in 2023 after user testing, this guide is for nutrition program planners and implementers planning norm-responsive activities within nutrition-sensitive or nutrition-specific programming.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Social and Behavior Change Competency Assessment: Tool for Resilience Food Security Activities
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Social and Behavior Change and Gender
Food SecurityResilience
A facilitated process helps implementing partners identify social and behavior change competencies of core staff and plan to strengthen and develop skills.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
How Nutrition Programs Can Level Up with Gamification
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Social and Behavior Change and Gender
Finding ways to turn desired practices or behaviors into games with achievable outcomes, providing milestones to indicate progress, recognizing success, giving participants autonomy, and making sure they feel a strong connection to the broader mission can leverage motivation and induce behavior change.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Enabling Better Complementary Feeding: Guidance and Workbook
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Social and Behavior Change and Gender
Complementary Feeding
This workbook highlights challenges and examples specific to social and behavior change (SBC) for improving complementary feeding. The basic concepts of high-quality SBC design, implementation, monitoring and evaluation, and learning can also be used to improve other nutrition behaviors.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Empowering Women Can Improve Child Dietary Diversity in Ethiopia
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Social and Behavior Change and Gender
Gender
The survey-based women's empowerment index assessed social autonomy, decision-making, and attitudes to violence and was a stronger predictor of the change in minimum dietary diversity than wealth, child age, and urban residence. Women’s empowerment should be integrated into nutrition interventions.
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
Utiliser la recherche pour concevoir une stratégie de changement social et comportemental pour une nutrition multisectorielle
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Social and Behavior Change and Gender
Les responsables des programmes de changement social et comportemental (CSC) en matière de nutrition peuvent utiliser cet outil lors de la conception d’un programme ou d’une activité pour transformer les résultats de la recherche en une stratégie de CSC conduisant à des comportements nutritionnels optimaux.
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
Suivi de l’évolution sociale et du changement de comportement dans le cadre d’une nutrition multisectorielle
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Social and Behavior Change and Gender
Les responsables des programmes de changement social et comportemental en matière de nutrition peuvent utiliser cet outil pendant la conception et la mise en oeuvre du programme pour sélectionner des indicateurs, suivre les progrès et procéder à des adaptations.
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
The Strategic Agenda for At-Scale Nutrition Social and Behavior Change Communication
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Social and Behavior Change and Gender
Behavior Change for Nutrition
The strategic agenda is a blueprint for creating social and behavior change communication programs that contribute to the widespread social and individual behavior changes needed to meet broad nutrition commitments.
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
Les choses à faire et à ne pas faire en matière de changement social et comportemental
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Social and Behavior Change and Gender
Behavior Change for Nutrition
Cet outil aide les planificateurs et les exécutants de programmes de nutrition à améliorer la qualité à chaque étape de nutrition multisectorielle et changement social et comportemental, de la conception à la livraison, le monitorage, et l’adaptation.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Strengthening Nutrition Activities through Gender Integration
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Social and Behavior Change and Gender
GenderGrowth Monitoring and PromotionNutrition Assessment, Counseling, and Support (NACS)
A brief informed by gender analyses considers how gender differences may affect nutrition services and programming. A key aspect of the social and behavior change work of USAID Advancing Nutrition includes unpacking and responding to the social and gender norms that influence nutrition. The brief includes a review of staff learning and examples of gender integration across the project.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Nourishing Heroínas in Mozambique: Understanding, Designing with, and Tailoring Nutrition Interventions to Adolescent Girls
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Social and Behavior Change and Gender
Adolescent Nutrition
A human-centered design approach to creating behavior change interventions can help identify users’ motivations, abilities, and opportunities. While time consuming and resource intensive, continuous learning through ideation, prototyping, and iteration provides valuable insights into users’ realities. This paper is available in English and Portuguese.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Complexity-Aware Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning for Social and Behavior Change Interventions
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Social and Behavior Change and Gender
Infant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)
Contextual, temporal, and interpretive complexities impact most social and behavior change interventions. These complexity-aware tools include an advocacy brief; a core set of indicators related to collaborating, learning, and adapting; and a checklist to improve consistency and completeness of intervention documentation.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Maternal Diets in India: Gaps, Barriers, and Opportunities
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Social and Behavior Change and Gender
GenderMaternal NutritionNutrition Sensitive Agriculture
Food unavailability and poor economic situations, limited exposure to nutrition counseling, food restrictions and beliefs, adverse family influence and gender norms, and gaps in knowledge constrain healthy diets.
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
Enabling Better Complementary Feeding: Guidance and Workbook
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Improving Women and Children’s Diets in Emergency ContextsSocial and Behavior Change and Gender
Complementary FeedingEarly Childhood DevelopmentInfant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)
Social and behavior change (SBC) is necessary to improve all components of feeding young children: adequate food, adequate services, and adequate feeding practices. This workbook highlights challenges and examples specific to quality SBC for improving complementary feeding.
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
Social and Behavior Change Competency Assessment: Tool for Resilience Food Security Activities
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Capacity StrengtheningIdentification and Use of Nutrition CompetenciesNutrition in Humanitarian ContextsSocial and Behavior Change and Gender
Behavior Change for NutritionProgram DesignResilience and Food Security Activity (RFSA)
Competencies are critical to job performance and successful social and behavior change (SBC) nutrition interventions. The Social and Behavior Change Competency Assessment tool guides implementing partners of Resilience and Food Security Activities through a process of identifying existing SBC competencies of core staff and building a plan to strengthen and develop further skills.
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
Stories from the Forefront: Interviews with Social and Behavior Change Communications Media Professionals
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Social and Behavior Change and Gender
Private-Sector Engagement
This guide, developed for USAID's Eat Safe Project, presents behind-the-scenes stories from top practitioners in the field of media-based Social and Behavior Change Communication (SBCC) worldwide; including executive directors, country directors, producers, and researchers.