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Cost of Not Breastfeeding Advocacy Brief Series (2022)

Not breastfeeding has significant health and economic impacts. The Cost of Not Breastfeeding Tool is an evidence-based modeling tool that uses open-access data to estimate the health and economic costs of not protecting, promoting, and supporting breastfeeding.

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VIDEO: Building the future of girls: Alive & Thrive interventions to improve adolescent nutrition in Ethiopia

These videos present Alive & Thrive's adolescent nutrition intervention in Ethiopia, which included Amhara, Somali and SNNP regions. The intervention, co-designed with multiple stakeholders, including adolescent girls and their families, sought to improve dietary practices.

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Gaps in the Implementation and Uptake of Maternal Nutrition Interventions in Antenatal Care Services in Bangladesh, Burkina Faso, Ethiopia and India (Sanghvi T., 2021. Maternal & Child Nutrition)

This paper demonstrates that maternal nutrition intervention (MNI) coverage was consistently lower than antenatal care (ANC) coverage in Bangladesh, Burkina Faso, Ethiopia, and India, despite ANC being the largest global platform to deliver MNI.

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Lessons from using cluster-randomized evaluations to build evidence on large-scale nutrition behavior change interventions (Menon, P., 2020. World Development)

Large-scale behavior change interventions, delivered through a variety of platforms – government health systems, community-based platforms, and mass media – had substantial impacts in Bangladesh, Ethiopia, and Vietnam.

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Nutrition-sensitive Agriculture

This brief explains what nutrition-sensitive agriculture (NSA) is and why it is important to human health and nutrition, and outlines Alive & Thrive's activities to support NSA in Ethiopia.

 

 

 
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