Adolescent Nutrition Resource Bank
The Second National Plan of Action for Nutrition (NPAN2) of Bangladesh aims to operationalize the sub-strategies of the 2015 National Nutrition Policy (NNP) by specifying key nutrition-specific and nutrition-sensitive actions. Adolescent girls are a target group of NNP and NPAN2, with an aim to reduce malnutrition in adolescent girls to less than 15 percent.
Adolescent Nutrition Resource Bank
This document contains Gabon's overarching food security and nutrition policy. The policy promotes the nutrition of adolescents and WRA across nutrition and food interventions, including micronutrient supplementation.
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This document is the Guineau-Bissau overarching nutrition strategy. The strategy promotes optimal nutrition for children from 6 months to 19 years of age, and advocates for good nutrition practices for children, young people, and adolescents at schools, health centers, and women's literacy centers.
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The document is India's National Nutrition Strategy for 2017-2022. A major target of the strategy is to reduce the prevalence of anemia among young children, adolescent girls, and WRA by 2022.
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This RMNCH+A strategy promotes links between interventions to enhance coverage throughout the lifecycle to improve child survival in India. The “+” in the acronym refers to the inclusion of adolescence as a distinct life stage within the overall strategy. The strategy addresses issues such as adolescent nutrition education, micronutrient supplementation, and using adolescent health days to provide services.
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This document contains the MIYCN Strategy of Maharashtra, India. Among the strategy's provisions are ensuring that all adolescents have a healthy BMI through education about nutrition, health, and sanitation, and providing adolescents with IFAS to minimize the prevalence of anemia.
Adolescent Nutrition Resource Bank
This document contains Madagascar's overarching nutrition strategy for 2012 to 2017 (PNAN II). PNAN II laid the foundation for including adolescent nutrition in the national nutrition strategy. One of PNAN II's primary interventions is the promotion of nutrition for children and youth ages 13 to 20.
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This document contains Madagascar's overarching nutrition strategy from 2017 to 2021 (PNAN III). PNAN III incorporates provisions for adolescent nutrition in school and community settings, including nutrition education, IFA supplements, and deworming.
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The Malawi National Multi-Sector Nutrition Policy for 2018–2022 aims to ensure that evidence-based, high-impact nutrition interventions are developed and implemented at scale. The policy addresses such issues as preventing undernutrition and nutrition education, social mobilization, and positive behavior change.
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The Multisectorial Plan for Chronic Malnutrition Reduction in Mozambique is the country's overarching nutrition strategy. Interventions to strengthen nutrition outcomes for adolescents include monitoring anemia in adolescents ages 10 to 19, reducing early pregnancy among adolescents ages 10 to 19, and strengthening nutritional education as part of school syllabi.