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Adolescent Nutrition Resource Bank
Girl Guides Anemia Prevention Badge: Guiders' Training Manual
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Anemia
This training manual prepares adult Guiders to teach Girl Guides and Girl Scouts ages 7 to 18 in the Africa region about anemia prevention. It addresses the knowledge and skills Girl Guides and Scouts need to change their behavior to prevent anemia and to communicate with their peers and women in their community to help them prevent anemia.
Adolescent Nutrition Resource Bank
Adolescent Nutrition Toolkit (India)
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Anemia
This toolkit includes a technical report about adolescent nutrition in India, "Adolescents, Diets, and Nutrition: Growing Well in a Changing World," a recipe book for packed lunches and snacks for adolescents in the Indian context, and a pamphlet for adolescents about nutrition, eating practices, and anemia.
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Adolescent Nutrition Guideline
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This document presents the California nutrition and physical activity guidelines for adolescents. The guidelines apply to males and females and address such topics as pregnant and breastfeeding adolescents and adolescent eating patterns, with links to resources.
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100 Messages
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Adolescent Nutrition
This publication focuses on 100 simple health education messages for children ages 8 to 14. The messages correspond to ten key health topics, one of which is nutrition. The health messages are designed for parents and health educators to use with children at home and in schools, clubs, and clinics.
Adolescent Nutrition Resource Bank
Children's Participation in Learning and Action for Nutrition (PCAANS): A Basic Guide for the Promotion of Nutrition and School Health
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Adolescent Nutrition
This manual was developed to support teachers, administrators, and other school staff in one province in Mozambique to teach key nutrition and health messages that are aligned with the primary school curriculum. The program focused on educating children in grades 4-7 about nutrition and helping them to develop relevant skills and attitudes.
Adolescent Nutrition Resource Bank
How to Integrate Children's Participation in Health and Nutrition Programming
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Adolescent Nutrition
This guide was developed to enable Save the Children’s health and nutrition staff and partners to better support the meaningful participation of children and young people in health and nutrition programs. It focuses on opportunities for children’s involvement in maternal, newborn, and child health and nutrition, especially at the community and primary healthcare levels.
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Formative Research and Gender Analysis
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Adolescent NutritionWater, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH)
This paper reports the results of a three-year study in two provinces in Lao PDR. The study focused on barriers and facilitators to optimal adolescent nutrition, maternal nutrition, infant and young child feeding, Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH), health care seeking behaviors, and opportunities to support positive behaviors.
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Nutrition for Girls: Multiple Determinants for Improved Outcomes
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This discussion paper was developed to promote the prioritization of nutrition for girls in the global nutrition agenda. It focuses on the importance of investing more in nutrition-sensitive interventions for girls, including preventing early marriage and early pregnancy, and empowering girls. The paper features a case study of the nutrition of girls in Nepal.
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Nutrition in Middle Childhood and Adolescence
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Adolescent Nutrition
This paper describes adolescent nutrition as a neglected area of research and programming globally. It concludes that integrated adolescent health programs to prevent infection, improve diet quality, and encourage physical activity are necessary to reduce deficiency-related malnutrition while preventing overweight and obesity.
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Youth Leaders for Nutrition Advocacy Toolkit (Advocacy Guide and Adolescent Nutrition Briefs)
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Adolescent Nutrition
Created through a participatory and collaborative process with SUN Youth Leaders for Nutrition, this toolkit helps youth to design, develop, and implement an advocacy strategy for improving adolescent nutrition.
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Engaging Adolescents to Accelerate Progress on the First 1,000 Days
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Adolescent Nutrition
This paper discusses prioritizing and engaging with adolescents prior to and during their child's first 1,000 days. The authors conclude that supporting pregnant and parenting adolescents requires identifying barriers to optimal maternal health, pregnancy, birth outcomes, breastfeeding, and young child feeding and care practices.
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Guide to Anthropometry: A Practical Tool for Program Planners, Managers, and Implementers
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This guide provides information and step-by-step instructions on using anthropometry to assess nutritional status, as well as how anthropometric indicators relate to nutrition for children, adolescents, pregnant women, and WRA.
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Nutrition Education Curriculum for the Adolescent Girls Empowerment Program
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This nutrition education curriculum was used in the Adolescent Girls Empowerment Program in Zambia, which focused on girls ages 10 to 19. It includes icebreakers and activities on topics such as the nutrition needs of adolescent girls, the role of food in the body, anemia in adolescent girls, nutrition for pregnant adolescents, and infant feeding from birth to six months.
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Bridging the Gap: Engaging Adolescents for Nutrition, Health, and Sustainable Development
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This report summarizes the results of a study of adolescent nutrition conducted in Kenya, Uganda, Guatemala, and Cambodia on the role of adolescents in family health and nutrition. The report recommends that adolescent nutrition programs incorporate and adapt to the complexities of adolescents' lives and engage adolescents in the design, implementation, and monitoring of programs.
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Review of Programmatic Experiences to Adolescent and Women's Nutritional Needs in Low and Middle Income Countries
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Adolescent Nutrition
This report reviews the approaches used, practices promoted, and lessons learned by projects designed to improve the nutrition of adolescent girls and WRA in LMICs. It provides information on global programmatic experiences and summarizes inputs, outcomes, and lessons learned from implementers carrying out nutrition programs for WRA. Policy and program recommendations are also included.
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Report of the Stakeholders Consultation on Adolescent Nutrition
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Adolescent Nutrition
This document provides a summary of the 2017 Stakeholders Consultation on Adolescent Girls' Nutrition. The report outlines the state of evidence, existing guidance, and relevant program and implementation experience.
Adolescent Nutrition Resource Bank
Adolescent Nutrition CALL TO ACTION: Better Data Now to Drive Better Policies and Programs in the Future
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Adolescent Nutrition
This two-page call to action was produced during the 2017 Stakeholders Consultation on Adolescent Nutrition: Evidence, Guidance, and Gaps. The consultation emphasized the importance of generating and using high-quality data, working multi-sectorally, and engaging adolescents in research, program design, and implementation.
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Weekly Iron and Folic Acid Supplementation As an Anaemia Prevention Strategy in Women and Adolescent Girls: Lessons Learnt from Implementation of Programmes among Non-Pregnant Women of Reproductive Age
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Adolescent Nutrition
This brief is intended for stakeholders involved in the prevention and control of anemia. It promotes increasing investment and effectively implementing WIFS. Country examples from Ghana, India, and Vietnam are included.
Adolescent Nutrition Resource Bank
Weekly Iron and Folic Acid Supplementation for Women of Reproductive Age: An Analysis of Best Programme Practices
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Anemia
This document summarizes the lessons learned and best practices from ten WIFS programs for women of reproductive age (WRA). It is intended to serve as guidance to support advocacy, accelerate planning, and strengthen implementation of WIFS programs for WRA by program planners and managers.
Adolescent Nutrition Resource Bank
Global Accelerated Action for the Health of Adolescents (AA-HA!): Guidance to Support Country Implementation
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Anemia
This report focuses on strategies for planning, implementing, monitoring, and evaluating adolescent health programs. It describes key steps in understanding a country’s epidemiological profile, undertaking a landscape analysis, conducting a consultative process for setting priorities, and planning, implementing, monitoring, and evaluating national adolescent health programs.