Adolescent Nutrition Resource Bank
This comprehensive narrative review summarizes the impact and delivery platforms of nutrition-specific and nutrition-sensitive interventions for adolescent girls; nonpregnant, nonlactating WRA; pregnant and lactating women; women with children under age five; and older women. The review has a special focus on nutrition interventions delivered in LMICs.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Analyzing data from 50 Demographic and Health Surveys in 14 different countries since 2000, the authors of this study sought to detect trends in stunting and potential contributing factors. Their research found a decreasing trend in stunting among all countries.
Adolescent Nutrition Resource Bank
This story map summarizes the state of nutrition for adolescents age 15 to 19 from 62 countries in Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean, Europe and Central Asia, South Asia, the Middle East and North Africa, and East Asia Pacific. The story map present data on underweight, overweight, and anemia.
Adolescent Nutrition Resource Bank
This report summarizes information about nutrition for adolescent girls and boys ages 15 to 19, using data from Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS), conducted in 65 low-income and 22 middle-income countries. The report describes the prevalence of anthropometric measurements, childbearing, anemia, iron supplementation, and women’s dietary diversity.
Adolescent Nutrition Resource Bank
The report brings together all WHO guidance about adolescents across the spectrum of health issues. It offers a state-of-the-art overview of four areas for action: providing health services, collecting and using data to plan and monitor interventions, developing and implementing health-promoting and health-protecting policies, and mobilizing and supporting other sectors.
Adolescent Nutrition Resource Bank
This study was conducted to support the design of an evidence-based adolescent nutrition program in Nepal (Suaahara.) The study found that exposure, knowledge, and behaviors across thematic areas differed by stage of adolescence. It concluded that heterogeneity among adolescent girls should be considered when selecting interventions that have the most potential for each subpopulation.
Adolescent Nutrition Resource Bank
Volume I of this two-part Feed The Future Project Design Guide for Youth-Inclusive Agriculture and Food Systems provides USAID staff and implementing partners with approaches, frameworks, and tools to design agriculture programs that promote successful and meaningful youth engagement with the U.S. Feed the Future Initiative and the U.S. Government Global Food Security Strategy.
Adolescent Nutrition Resource Bank
Volume II of this two-part Feed The Future Project Design Guide for Youth-Inclusive Agriculture and Food Systems, which is intended for USAID staff and implementers, offers implementation guidance for activity-level interventions. The guide discusses how to develop youth-inclusive projects and activities that account for the diversity of the youth cohort and the dynamism of the agricultural sector.
Adolescent Nutrition Resource Bank
This resource is a guide for positive living for adolescents living with HIV. The nutrition topics addressed include diet, quantity and quality of foods, junk food, and vitamins and minerals.
Adolescent Nutrition Resource Bank
These standards provide guidance to health care facilities for improving the quality of maternal, newborn, child, and adolescent health care. The guidance is designed to ensure that the care given to all children and adolescents in health facilities is evidence-based, safe, effective, timely, efficient, equitable,. and appropriate for the patient's age and stage of development.