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Body Mass Index (BMI) Wheel
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Nutrition and Health Systems
Infant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)
This time-saving tool helps health care workers in developing countries to quickly calculate body mass index (BMI) and BMI-for-age to determine a client’s nutritional status. Determining BMI is an inexpensive, reliable way for health workers to identify malnutrition in children over 5 years of age, adolescents, and non-pregnant, non-lactating adults.
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Baby‐Friendly Community Initiative—From National Guidelines to Implementation: A Multisectoral Platform for Improving Infant and Young Child Feeding Practices and Integrated Health Services
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Nutrition and Health Systems
Infant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)
The Baby‐Friendly Community Initiative (BFCI) is an extension of the 10th step of the Ten Steps of Successful Breastfeeding and the Baby‐Friendly Hospital Initiative and provides continued breastfeeding support to communities upon facility discharge after birth.
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Advocacy Briefs 'Working Together for the Future of Tanzania: A Call to Action on Nutrition
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Nutrition and Health Systems
Infant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)
This brief outlines the causes and possible solutions for chronic malnutrition in Tanzania. It includes calls to action for different audiences including government, development partners, media, civil society organizations, private sector, district leaders, and district executives.
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Acceptability of Lipid-Based Nutrient Supplements and Micronutrient Powders among Pregnant and Lactating Women and Infants and Young Children in Bangladesh and Their Perceptions about Malnutrition and Nutrient Supplements
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Nutrition and Health Systems
Infant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)
Bangladesh has a high prevalence of undernutrition and micronutrient deficiencies among pregnant and lactating women and infants and young children. This study was carried out to assess the acceptability of lipid-based nutrient supplements among pregnant and lactating women and infants and young children, and micronutrient powders among infants and young children.
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Provider Behavior Change Implementation Kit
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Social and Behavior Change and Gender
This implementation kit provides step-by-step guidance on using social and behavior change communication (SBCC) to change provider behavior, and thereby improve client outcomes.
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Roadmap for the Community Video Approach
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Social and Behavior Change and Gender
Videos made for the community by the community have proved to be effective in causing social and behavior change in the Sahel. This document serves as a “road map” to implementing community videos and complements the Community Video for Nutrition Guide.
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Photo-to-Illustration Guide
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Social and Behavior Change and Gender
This guide highlights a specific technique for creating high-quality illustrations through a process involving tracing a reference photograph and then scanning and importing the resulting line drawing into the computer to add color, shading, and patterns.
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Nutrition Social and Behavior Change Strategy Library
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Social and Behavior Change and Gender
This library includes resources from the Strengthening Partnerships, Results, and Innovations in Nutrition Globally (SPRING) project's work to help social and behavior change (SBC) practitioners design, implement, and monitor effective SBC interventions for nutrition.
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Moving Nutrition Social and Behavior Change Forward
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Social and Behavior Change and Gender
This brief presents some of the Strengthening Partnerships, Results, and Innovations in Nutrition Globally (SPRING) project's key learning about social and behavior change for nutrition between 2012 and 2017.
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IYCN Social and Behavior Change Communication Approach
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Social and Behavior Change and Gender
The Infant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN) Project included social and behavior change (SBCC) activities as part of its strategic approach to bring about significant and sustainable improvements in maternal dietary and infant and young child feeding practices.
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Integrating SBCC into Service Delivery Programs Implementation Kit
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Social and Behavior Change and Gender
This implementation kit aims to help service delivery project managers effectively use service communication to enhance the impact of their project. This kit can be used to help increase demand for and uptake of services, and improve consistent long-term maintenance of healthy behaviors.
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Designing Effective Nutrition-Sensitive Agriculture Activities Workshop: Facilitator's Guide and Slides
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Nutrition-Sensitive Agriculture Design Guide Community of PracticeImproving Women and Children’s Diets in Emergency Contexts
Nutrition Sensitive Agriculture
This guide provides materials needed to facilitate nutrition-sensitive agriculture design workshops. Paired with two PowerPoint slide decks, it provides instructions for facilitators to conduct a three-day workshop that helps activity teams establish contextually appropriate, nutrition-sensitive agriculture outcomes, interventions, and indicators.
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Integrated SBCC Programs Implementation Kit
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Social and Behavior Change and Gender
This implementation kit seeks to guide social and behavior change communication (SBCC) programs looking to achieve complete integration, which is when multiple health sectors (e.g., family planning; HIV; and reproductive, maternal, and newborn health) jointly plan and implement activities and comprehensively address all relevant audiences.
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Implementing Gender-Transformative Approaches (GTAs) in Agricultural Initiatives
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Social and Behavior Change and Gender
This paper explores the key elements of gender-transformative approaches and provides examples of their application within agricultural initiatives, as well as resources for agricultural practitioners.
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ICT – Powering Behavior Change in Agricultural Extension
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Social and Behavior Change and Gender
This review focuses on how information and communication technologies (ICT) in agricultural extension can better promote behavior change in farmers, drawing on: (1) behavior change principles as evidenced across various sectors such as health, business, advertising and agriculture; (2) lessons learned from various ICT for development players and reports; and (3) approaches used by a subset of l
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Facilitator’s Guide for Father-to-Father Support Groups
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Social and Behavior Change and Gender
This facilitator’s guide is adapted from the Infant and Young Child Feeding Project and the Infant and Young Child Nutrition men’s group package. It is a reference for male group leaders of the Father-to-Father Support Groups to facilitate group meetings at the community level.
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Developing a Behavior Change Strategy for Aflatoxin Reduction in Groundnuts
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Social and Behavior Change and Gender
In 2016, University Research Co. finalized a social and behavior change approach to provide consistent, accurate, and compelling messages that fit within the participatory Farmer Field Schools (FFS) approach and that reinforce the core content of the FFS.
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Designing for Behavior Change: A Practical Field Guide
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Social and Behavior Change and Gender
This manual is a condensed reference guide that is primarily intended for use by those who have been trained in the Designing for Behavior Change (DBC) approach. The DBC approach was developed to help designers think more critically when developing and reviewing a behavior change strategy.
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Community Media for Social and Behavior Change: Using the Power of Participatory Storytelling to Improve Nutrition
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Social and Behavior Change and Gender
This document helps guide program managers and other decision makers considering the use of various types of community media. It includes descriptions of relevant experiences, tools, evidence, and lessons learned.
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Zambia Nutrition Assessment, Counselling and Support (NACS) Training Materials for Facility-Based Providers
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Nutrition and Health Systems
Nutrition Assessment, Counseling, and Support (NACS)
The Food and Nutrition Technical Assistance Project (FANTA) Project developed a package of nutrition assessment, counseling, and support training materials for facility-based providers in Zambia to improve their nutrition knowledge and skills. The training package includes a facilitators guide, participant handouts, and a set of PowerPoint slides to reinforce the training.