This report provides a snapshot of current interventions and activities that addresses the nutrition challenges faced by adolescent girls in Asia. It attempts to highlight some traditional approaches and more innovative ways to reach adolescent girls.
Adolescents embody the future – figuratively and, in the case of mothers, literally. If their nutrition status is poor, then nutrition throughout the lifecycle will be fragile. This report aims to address this issue in three ways.
This report presents findings from a cross-sectional market assessment conducted by GAIN in Bangladesh that assessed the presence of edible oil brands and compared the vitamin A content of the edible oil brands with the national edible oil fortification standards.
This report presents a landscape of nutritional status of pregnant women and adolescent girls in East Java, Indonesia. It provides information on the demography and nutritional status, underlying factors of undernutrition, activity patterns, and existing nutritious products among adolescent and pregnant women in East Java province.
This summary report presents key findings and trends from nutrition landscape analyses undertaken across fourteen countries as part of the GSM Association Mobile for Development Nutrition Initiative funded by UK Department for International Development.
