Report

Nov 05 2014

Rapid Assessment of IYCF in Communities in Tigray and SNNP Regions of Ethiopia

Complements earlier formative research through an assessment of communication channels, available resources, and training needs of health extension workers and volunteers.

Report

Nov 05 2014

Findings of Alive & Thrive Baseline Survey in Ethiopia

Presents findings from the baseline survey conducted in Tigray and SNNP regions in 2010 as part of the impact evaluation of A&T interventions.

Report

Oct 28 2014

Adding Micronutrient Powders to an Integrated Food Security and Nutrition Project to Further Reduce Malnutrition in Nepal

The goal of this project is to examine the impact on anemia prevalence among young children of providing an enhanced homestead food production (EHFP) program with or without micronutrient powders (MNP).

Journal article

Oct 14 2014

Small grants program: Scripted messages delivered by nurses and radio changed beliefs, attitudes, intentions, and behaviors regarding infant and young child feeding in Mexico

This study aimed to evaluate whether an infant and young child feeding (IYCF) nutrition communication strategy using nurses deliverable radio messages changed beliefs, attitudes, social norms, intentions, and behaviors related to breastfeeding (BF), dietary diversity, and food consistency.

Journal article

Oct 01 2014

Program impact pathway analysis of a social franchise model shows potential to improve infant and young child feeding practices in Viet Nam (Nguyen PH., 2014. Journal of Nutrition)

By mapping the mechanisms through which interventions are expected to achieve impact, program impact pathway (PIP) analysis lays out the theoretical causal links between program activities, outcomes, and impacts.

Journal article

May 01 2014

Linear growth increased in young children in an urban slum of Haiti: a randomized controlled trial of a lipid-based nutrient supplement (Iannotti I., 2014. American Journal of Clinical Nutrition)

The aim of this project was to test the efficacy of a lipid-based nutrient supplement (LNS) on infants 6 to 11 months in Haiti. The LNS provided 108 kcal and vitamin A, vitamin B-12, iron, and zinc (80 % of the recommended amounts).

 
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