Report
Jun 18 2015
Nutrition Stakeholder Analysis: Bihar, India
This report describes the methodology, results, and recommendations from a stakeholder landscape study that intended to capture a snapshot of nutrition stakeholders in Bihar, India, and to develop an understanding of how they interact with each other to achieve nutrition outcomes.
Report
Feb 27 2015
Engaging the Private Sector to Improve Access to Fortified Complementary Foods: Moving from the “If” to the “How”
Examines private sector engagement in improving access to fortified complementary foods for children 6‒24 months of age.
Report
Dec 17 2014
Engaging the Private Sector to Reduce Stunting in Bangladesh, Ethiopia, and Viet Nam
Summarizes Alive & Thrive’s experience in engaging the private sector to increase supply, demand, and use of fortified complementary foods and products.
Report
Oct 28 2014
Small grants program: Improving breastfeeding practices through cell phone counseling in India
The goal of this project was to examine the effect on breastfeeding (BF) rates of providing mothers with cell phone-based breastfeeding (BF) counseling in addition to maternity hospital retraining in the Baby-friendly Hospital Initiative (BFHI).
Report
Oct 28 2014
mHealth and Baby-friendly Hospital Initiative for Breastfeeding
Cell phone-based breastfeeding counseling, coupled with retraining of hospital staff in the Baby-friendly Hospital Initiative, increased rates of early initiation and exclusive breastfeeding in India.
Report
Oct 27 2014
Small grants program: Assessing the cost and effectiveness of training and supervision of frontline workers on early breastfeeding practices in Bangladesh
The goal of this project was to determine if traditional birth attendant (TBA) and community volunteer (CV) training could improve early breastfeeding (BF) practices, and if so, whether the impact was substantially greater if the relatively expensive component of post-training supervision was inc