This study assessed the effects of incorporating social franchising on infant and young child feeding (IYCF) counseling facilities and services.

Lays out Alive & Thrive’s comprehensive approach for scale and impact through four components: advocacy, interpersonal communication and community mobilization, mass communication, and strategic use of data.

Outlines the 6 steps used to design A&T’s “talking babies” mass media campaign in Viet Nam, discusses the behavioral theory and research behind the strategy, and presents the results.

Describes Alive & Thrive’s use of counseling and community mobilization to personalize messages, demonstrate skills, and motivate; the distinctive features of the approach; and the results and lessons in 3 countries.

Describes Alive & Thrive’s use of available channels of mass communication to reach masses of people with persuasive, consistent messages; the distinctive features of the approach; and the results and lessons in 3 countries.

Provides the rationale for support groups, describes their design and implementation in Viet Nam, and summarizes lessons learned.