Adolescent Nutrition Resource Bank
This guide provides information and step-by-step instructions on using anthropometry to assess nutritional status, as well as how anthropometric indicators relate to nutrition for children, adolescents, pregnant women, and WRA. The guide helps health and development professionals to collect, understand, and/or use anthropometric data as part of service provision, surveillance, surveys, monitoring and evaluation, or program design.
Adolescent Nutrition Resource Bank
This paper discusses prioritizing and engaging with adolescents prior to and during their child's first 1,000 days. The authors conclude that supporting pregnant and parenting adolescents requires identifying barriers to optimal maternal health, pregnancy, birth outcomes, breastfeeding, and young child feeding and care practices. They also note that approaches must be tailored to meet adolescents’ needs and be accessible and acceptable to adolescents.
Adolescent Nutrition Resource Bank
Created through a participatory and collaborative process with SUN Youth Leaders for Nutrition, this toolkit helps youth to design, develop, and implement an advocacy strategy for improving adolescent nutrition. The toolkit includes a step-by-step guide, advocacy planning checklist, briefs on nutrition issues, briefs on issues that impact nutrition, templates and forms, and additional resources.
USAID Advancing Nutrition Consultant Registry
Are you interested in consulting with USAID Advancing Nutrition? Express your interest and become part of our permanent consultant pool. Consultants entered in the database are reviewed regularly and must be registered before contracting with the project.
Adolescent Nutrition Resource Bank
This paper describes adolescent nutrition as a neglected area of research and programming globally. It concludes that integrated adolescent health programs to prevent infection, improve diet quality, and encourage physical activity are necessary to reduce deficiency-related malnutrition while preventing overweight and obesity.
Adolescent Nutrition Resource Bank
This discussion paper was developed to promote the prioritization of nutrition for girls in the global nutrition agenda. It focuses on the importance of investing more in nutrition-sensitive interventions for girls, including preventing early marriage and early pregnancy, and empowering girls. The paper features a case study of the nutrition of girls in Nepal.
Adolescent Nutrition Resource Bank
This paper reports the results of a three-year study in two provinces in Lao PDR. The study focused on barriers and facilitators to optimal adolescent nutrition, maternal nutrition, infant and young child feeding, Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH), health care seeking behaviors, and opportunities to support positive behaviors. The findings are intended to guide the project’s Social and Behavior Change Communication strategy.
Adolescent Nutrition Resource Bank
This guide was developed to enable Save the Children’s health and nutrition staff and partners to better support the meaningful participation of children and young people in health and nutrition programs. It focuses on opportunities for children’s involvement in maternal, newborn, and child health and nutrition, especially at the community and primary healthcare levels.
Adolescent Nutrition Resource Bank
This manual was developed to support teachers, administrators, and other school staff in one province in Mozambique to teach key nutrition and health messages that are aligned with the primary school curriculum. The program focused on educating children in grades 4-7 about nutrition and helping them to develop relevant skills and attitudes.
Adolescent Nutrition Resource Bank
This publication focuses on 100 simple health education messages for children ages 8 to 14. The messages correspond to ten key health topics, one of which is nutrition. The health messages are designed for parents and health educators to use with children at home and in schools, clubs, and clinics.