Expected Results

Community-based activities, awareness-raising efforts of national and regional women’s associations, and stakeholder mobilization with other partners will contribute to overall reach and results.

Expected impact

  • Exclusive breastfeeding increased by 25 percent (from 49 percent to 61 percent) among infants 0-5 months old in program areas
  • Stunting prevented in more than 350,000 children under five

 

Expected outcomes

  • Strengthened leadership and more resources for IYCF
  • Supportive supervision and enhanced capacity of health extension workers to promote and support IYCF
  • Culture of evidence-based policy and practice
  • Private sector harnessed to provide quality, inexpensive complementary foods and/or related products