USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
Brief outlining nutrition coordination structures in Tanzania as defined by the National Multi-sectoral Nutrition Action Plan NMNAPs I (2016–2021) and II (2021–2026). The PMO is mandated to coordinate government business including the work of all ministries, departments, and agencies that are responsible for delivering nutrition-sensitive interventions.
Event
This interactive workshop series brought together implementers to explore nutrition SBC best practices from a new perspective. Participants learned about what nutrition programmers are doing and how to achieve positive complementary feeding results using an evidence-based, behavior-centered approach through storytelling, videos, discussions, and hands-on exercises. We worked together to unpack the complexity of complementary feeding through an SBC approach that aligns sectors and actors to achieve intended outcomes.
Adolescent Nutrition Resource Bank
This article describes age-specific characteristics that inform how children and adolescents interact with their food systems and how that relationship influences their diets, using the socio-ecological framework. It highlights the fact that various interpersonal, intrapersonal, and environmental factors influence the diets of indivduals across the life cycle, particularly children and adolescents, and that these factors can pose challenges to the attainment of optimal diets in children and adolescents.
Adolescent Nutrition Resource Bank
The article describes the Innocenti Framework, its purpose, and how it conceptualizes the dynamic linkages between the elements of food systems to highlight the importance of continuously shaping food systems to deliver nutritious, safe, affordable, and sustainable diets to children and adolescents.
Adolescent Nutrition Resource Bank
This paper utilizes a case study approach to explore the proximate determinants of dietary intake as well as the food behaviors of caregivers, children, and adolescents. The results provide insights about facilitators and barriers to uptake of interventions aimed at improving dietary behaviors in children and adolescents and highlight their implications for planning and monitoring future interventions.
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
In partnership with Nigeria’s Federal Ministry of Health, the Food and Nutrition Technical Assistance Project (FANTA) Project created job aids as part of an initiative to integrate nutrition assessment, counseling, and support services into Nigeria’s health service delivery system. Posters and counseling cards guide providers in assessing, counseling and educating clients, and in supporting improved dietary practices.
Adolescent Nutrition Resource Bank
The Liberia Ministry of Health and partners developed this guide for adolescent health education with support from Breakthrough ACTION Liberia. Health club supervisors and peer educators will use this guide in both communities and schools to educate young people aged 13–16 years on sexual and reproductive health. Lesson 13: Nutrition and Healthy Eating discusses the importance of consuming nutritious foods during adolescence and how to distinguish between nutritious and less nutritious foods.
Adolescent Nutrition Resource Bank
Although adolescence is a nutrition-sensitive phase of growth, nutritional guidelines specifically focusing on this age group are limited, particularly those that focus on nutritional problems related to energy and macronutrient excess and micronutrient deficiencies. This special issue compiles papers that highlight nutritional recommendations for adolescents, based on scientific data, particularly as they relate to adolescent growth and development.
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
The Ministry of Health in collaboration with other Ministries, Departments Agencies, development partners and other key stakeholders have developed the Kenya Nutrition Advocacy, Communication, and Social Mobilisation (ACSM) Strategy (2022–2027).
News and Features
Women’s access to financial resources plays a critical role in ensuring access to quality nutritious diets all year round. Even with an improved knowledge of good feeding practices, Ghanaian mothers in low-income households find it difficult to implement most of the nutrition advice they receive from health workers and through other avenues.