Adolescent Nutrition Resource Bank
These guidelines aim to assist Albertans to create an environment that provides and promotes healthy food choices and healthy attitudes about food. The guidelines encourage individuals, families, organizations, and communities to work together to increase the availability and appeal of healthier food choices, and to teach and model healthy eating behaviors.
Job Posting
The USAID Advancing Nutrition Director of Monitoring, Evaluation, & Learning (MEL) position is open for recruitment by Results for Development. Applicants are encouraged to apply using the link below. This position is fully seconded to USAID Advancing Nutrition and is based in JSI's Arlington office.
Adolescent Nutrition Resource Bank
The purpose of this education kit is to raise the awareness of children and young people of the amount of added sugar in common drinks and to help them to make better drink choices. It provides interactive activities about healthy drink choices.
Adolescent Nutrition Resource Bank
This kit is designed to teach students from kindergarten to grade 12 about healthy portion sizes. It contains common items that are easily recognized by children (e.g., baseball, golf ball). The size of each item corresponds to one Canada’s Food Guide serving of specific foods. The items are designed to be used with nutrition education activities that are described in the kit.
Adolescent Nutrition Resource Bank
This curriculum guide from the Philippines is for teachers of children from kindergarten to grade 12. The nutrition topics addressed in the guide include recognition of the nutrients children and adolescents need, analysis of the quality and quantity of food intake, and the development of proper eating habits to meet physiological, psychological, and social needs.
Adolescent Nutrition Resource Bank
This brief explains why the nutrition of adolescent girls and mothers is important and the causes of malnutrition among girls and mothers. It provides an overview of key nutrition-specific interventions that address the immediate causes of malnutrition in adolescent girls and mothers. To mitigate the underlying and systemic causes of malnutrition, the brief suggests nutrition-sensitive interventions using a multi-sectoral approach.
Adolescent Nutrition Resource Bank
This document is a review of the nutritional status of adolescents in Member Countries of WHO’s South-East Asia Region. It focuses on identifying key nutritional problems and suggests strategic interventions for policymakers. It can be used to identify research gaps and to guide those engaged in research to generate evidence for strategic interventions.
Adolescent Nutrition Resource Bank
This study discusses national prevalence estimates on adolescent girls (ages 10 to 22) from the 2014 State of Food Security and Nutrition in Bangladesh. It emphasizes that determining the true prevalence of undernutrition, overweight, and obesity is complicated by racial/ethnic variation across populations in timing of the adolescent growth spurt, growth potential, and body build.
Adolescent Nutrition Resource Bank
This landscape analysis focuses on adolescent and maternal nutrition in the East Java province of Indonesia. It explores the nutritional status of women and adolescent girls, underlying factors of undernutrition, nutritious foods for adolescents and pregnant women, physical activity for adolescent girls and married women, communication channels, and Indonesian government programs for adolescent girls and pregnant women.
Adolescent Nutrition Resource Bank
This landscape analysis focuses on adolescent health and nutrition in Ethiopia. It describes policies and programs related to adolescent nutrition and findings from the landscape analysis. The findings relate to the knowledge of adolescents; the perceptions of stakeholders; interventions; behavior change channels; monitoring, evaluation and research; and partnerships and coordination.