USAID Advancing Nutrition develops, curates, packages, and shares multi-sectoral nutrition knowledge to help you stay on top of developments and evidence in global nutrition programming.
Regional Assessment of Gender Responsive Adolescent Health in South Asia
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Adolescent Nutrition
This report shares key findings on Gender Responsive Adolescent Health (GRAH) in South Asia and provides a draft action framework to improve adolescent health in the region. The report includes information on adolescent nutrition programs and program guidance.
A Time of Transition: Adolescents in Humanitarian Settings
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Adolescent NutritionReproductive Health
This report describes Plan International's work with adolescents in humanitarian settings. It includes summary data on the needs of adolescents in times of crises; mapping of the work Plan does with adolescents in humanitarian action (including nutrition); identifying trends in the work of other agencies with adolescents; and recommendations for Plan’s future work.
National Multi-Sectoral Coordination Framework for Adolescent Girls 2017/2018-2021/2022
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Adolescent NutritionEmergency Nutrition
This multi-sectoral framework outlines the government of Uganda’s commitments and efforts related to investing in adolescence as the second decade of life. It describes how ministries will coordinate to deliver services to achieve sustainable results for adolescent girls. Although it is not focused on nutrition, the framework advocates for addressing nutrition during teenage pregnancy,
Adolescent NutritionEconomic GrowthReproductive Health
This flipbook accompanies the Facilitator’s Guide for Our First Baby: Health Education for Adolescents Who Are Pregnant Or First-Time Parents. It is designed to be used by a facilitator in group sessions in the community.
Our First Baby: Health Education for Adolescents Who Are Pregnant Or First-Time Parents
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Adolescent NutritionBreastfeedingMaternal NutritionReproductive Health
This Facilitator's Guide outlines nine small group sessions for pregnant adolescents and adolescents who are first-time mothers and their male partners. The sessions address such issues as the care of the mother during pregnancy, exclusive breastfeeding, sexually transmitted infections, and gender-based violence.
Strengthening the Health Sector Response to Adolescent Health and Development
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Adolescent NutritionBreastfeedingMaternal NutritionReproductive Health
This document describes the WHO Department of Child and Adolescent Health and Development (WHO/CAH)'s 4S framework to strengthen the response of the health sector to adolescents, CAH's approach to scaling up health service provision to adolescents, and the objectives of CAH's work in focus countries.
Quality Assessment Guidebook: A Guide to Assessing Health Services for Adolescent Clients
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Adolescent Nutrition
This guidebook is intended to enable program managers to assess the quality of health service provision to adolescents and take appropriate action. It contains a user guide, a set of instruments to assess the quality of health services, and a framework for analyzing and reporting on data collected. This resource may be useful for assessing adolescent nutrition services.
Making Health Services Adolescent Friendly: Developing National Quality Standards for Adolescent-Friendly Health Services
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Adolescent Nutrition
This guidebook presents the public health rationale for making it easier for adolescents to obtain the health services they need to protect and improve their health. It provides step-by-step guidance on developing quality standards for health service provision to adolescents and on identifying actions to assess whether the standards have been met.
Global Standards for Quality Health Services for Adolescents: Volume 4: Scoring Sheets for Data Analysis
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Adolescent Nutrition
The WHO/UNAIDS Global Standards for Quality Health Care Services for Adolescents aim to assist policymakers and health service planners in improving the quality of health-care services so that adolescents are able to obtain services to protect and improve their health and well-being.
Global Standards for Quality Health Services for Adolescents: Volume 3: Tools to Conduct Quality and Coverage Measurement Surveys to Collect Data about Compliance with the Global Standards
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Adolescent Nutrition
The WHO/UNAIDS Global Standards for Quality Health Care Services for Adolescents aim to assist policymakers and health service planners in improving the quality of health-care services so that adolescents are able to obtain services to protect and improve their health and well-being.
Global Standards for Quality Health Services for Adolescents: Volume 2: Implementation Guide
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Adolescent Nutrition
The WHO/UNAIDS Global Standards for Quality Health Care Services for Adolescents aim to assist policymakers and health service planners in improving the quality of health-care services so that adolescents are able to obtain services to protect and improve their health and well-being. Volume Two addresses implementing this standards-driven approach to quality health services for adolescents.
Global Standards for Quality Health Services for Adolescents: Volume 1: Standards and Criteria
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Adolescent Nutrition
The WHO/UNAIDS Global Standards for Quality Health Care Services for Adolescents aim to assist policymakers and health service planners in improving the quality of health-care services so that adolescents are able to obtain services to protect and improve their health and well-being. Volume One covers the standards and criteria for delivering quality health services for adolescents.
Starting from Girls: They Are the Source to Trigger a Change
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Adolescent Nutrition
This paper focuses on increasing the inclusion of girls in the global debate on nutrition, agriculture, and food security in Sub-Saharan Africa. It discusses what is overlooked or unknown about girls, their work, and their potential, and suggests possible directions for policymakers.
This handout for adolescents in India focuses on information about anemia and the importance of taking a weekly iron folic acid supplementation. It also contains sample balanced diet menus for adolescent boys and girls ages 10 to 12 and 13 to 18.
This guide prepares classroom teachers to teach about health and nutrition. The topics covered include personal hygiene and sanitation, nutrition, iron and anemia, anemia (causes and prevention), and physical activity. Each session consists of key messages with illustrations.
This video features Bollywood actor Priyanka Chopra, who presents key messages about anemia in India and encourages adolescents to take their weekly iron and folic acid supplements and deworming tablets.
This is a desk reference tool for Nepali health workers (trained and registered doctors, nurses, and clinical officers) who provide services to children, adolescents, and adults. The tool provides step-by-step guidance for responding to adolescent patients more effectively and with greater sensitivity when they present with a concern about their health or development.
Adolescent NutritionMental HealthReproductive Health
This package of 15 modules aims to empower adolescent girls in 19 districts in Nepal through sessions conducted by social mobilizers and facilitators. One of the modules addresses nutrition. The package focuses on helping adolescent girls to expand their networks and capacitating them to be change agents in their community.