Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Around the world women make up two-thirds of livestock keepers, yet they often lack access to and control over these resources. This infographic shows different ways women can be empowered across food systems and provides examples of Feed the Future activities working to do so in a variety of countries.
Adolescent Nutrition Resource Bank
The Pakistan Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Strategy for 2018-2025 adopts a multi-sectoral planning and analysis framework. The strategy includes provisions for adolescent girls' nutrition, including micronutrient supplementation, regulation of foods marketed to adolescents, addressing gender equality issues, and health and nutrition education.
Adolescent Nutrition Resource Bank
The Philippines Plan of Action for Nutrition for 2017-2022 focuses on the first 1,000 days of life, the provision of nutrition-specific and nutrition-sensitive programs, and reaching geographically isolated and disadvantaged areas and indigenous people.
Adolescent Nutrition Resource Bank
The National Nutrition Policy of Sri Lanka (2010-2018) includes a focus on adolescent undernutrition and obesity. The majority of interventions are implemented in the school setting to establish a positive nutrition enabling environment there. The policy addresses providing nutrition services to non-school going adolescents and regular nutritional status assessments of adolescents and youth.
Adolescent Nutrition Resource Bank
Tanzania's National Multisectoral Nutrition Action Plan aims to improve maternal, infant, young child, and adolescent nutrition. The plan includes a focus on increasing school attendance among adolescent girls, using schools as an arena for health and nutrition interventions, and targeting communications to increase adolescent knowledge and adoption of appropriate positive dietary behaviors.
Adolescent Nutrition Resource Bank
The Zimbabwe National Nutrition Strategy 2014-2018 includes provisions for increasing the coverage of health and community nutrition services for adolescents to 50 percent by 2018. Strategies and interventions include providing micronutrient supplements to adolescent girls, and implementing school gardens with cooking demonstrations and nutrition education.
Adolescent Nutrition Resource Bank
This infographic highlights the importance of adolescence as the second most crucial period of a child’s life and emphasizes that it is the last opportunity to reverse childhood growth faltering. It also emphasizes the importance of good health and nutrition during adolescence in breaking the inter-generational cycle of undernutrition In Bangladesh.
Adolescent Nutrition Resource Bank
This report provides a detailed situational analysis and mapping of existing programs that address the nutritional and socio-economic needs of Pakistani girls ages 15 to 19. It also points to practical steps to better understand and address these issues.
Adolescent Nutrition Resource Bank
This report provides a detailed review of evidence on the nutritional status of adolescent boys and girls and the primary determinants of adolescent malnutrition in Pakistan. The authors use this information to help identify and prioritize critical data gaps and shape recommendations for future policies and programs.
Adolescent Nutrition Resource Bank
This report describes global and regional best practices to improve adolescent nutrition, and provides a Framework of Action for future adolescent nutrition policies and programming in Pakistan.