Nutrition through lifecycle

Youth - Adolescent

Interactive Learning Exchange - Exploring Strategies to Reach and Work with Adolescents

Within the framework of achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), the World Bank and its partners are working with countries to address health and development problems of vulnerable groups such as children and adolescents. One crucial component of the healthy development of adolescents is good nutrition. Yet this population has received little emphasis in nutrition programs and youth health and development programs have similarly not addressed nutrition in their strategies to improve outcomes for adolescents.

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