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Verifying the Nutritious Food Financing Facility presents a viable mechanism for agri-food enterprises in LMICs to increase their access to financing and nutritious foods.
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JSI Research & Training Institute, Inc. (JSI R&T) serves as the Secretariat of the Child Health Task Force, funded by USAID's Global Health and Africa Bureaus through the USAID Advancing Nutrition project. The Child Health Task Force is a global network of child health stakeholders from 300 organizations and 80 countries working together to strengthen comprehensive, equitable child health services through primary health care (PHC), inclusive of community health.
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Adolescent Nutrition Resource Bank

This brief makes the case for prioritizing adolescent health and nutrition, sets out recommendations for implementing a gender-transformative, adolescent-responsive approach, and provides model commitments governments can make to develop adolescent-responsive health and nutrition systems.
Adolescent Nutrition Resource Bank

This article describes the steps taken to identify research gaps and prioritize research actions to tackle outstanding gaps in adolescent nutrition in Indonesia. It describes the steps taken which involves a desk review to identify the gaps and stakeholder engagement, and an online survey to prioritize research themes and rank a list of research topics.
Adolescent Nutrition Resource Bank

This report summarises the proceedings from a two day virtual meeting of stakeholders from various countries and organizations. They discussed current global adolescent nutritional status, youth engagement in improving adolescent nutrition in specific countries, as well as government and organizational perspectives.
Adolescent Nutrition Resource Bank

This is a technical report on the strategies and progress made in creating demand for safe nutrtious food for adolescents and children under five in Bangladesh, Nigeria, and Kenya. In Bangladesh, through the nourishing dream project, adolescents in secondary school were encouraged to desire safe and nutrtious food.
Adolescent Nutrition Resource Bank

This review describes current guidelines and recommendations, as stated by WHO, on iron folic acid (IFA) supplementation and multiple micronutrient supplementation (MMS) among adolescents and young children in low- and middle-income countries. It also outlines evidence that suggest that MMS may potentially be more beneficial than IFA supplementation alone. Finally, it calls for more research such as School-based Assessments of Micronutrient Interventions in Adolescents (SAMIA) that seeks to clarify the optimal formulation for supplementation.
Adolescent Nutrition Resource Bank

The Saya Pemberani program, which means "I'm courageous" in Indonesian, was a social enterpreneurship program that aimed to engage young people living in urban centers to generate ideas to improve their diets using social media platforms.
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub

This brief describes World Health Organization recommendations for intermittent preventive treatment in pregnancy to prevent malaria and iron-folic acid supplementation to prevent iron deficiency anemia in sub-Saharan Africa countries, with an emphasis on giving the correct dose of folic acid to maximize the effectiveness of interventions to prevent malaria. The brief is for program managers of health programs and policymakers to guide them in designing programs and developing policies.