This invitation card was used to invite mothers and other caregivers to attend counseling sessions at IYCF social franchise in Viet Nam. There were two cards on exclusive breastfeeding and two on complementary feeding.

This fan promotes early and exclusive breastfeeding and was distributed to mothers in Viet Nam.

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.

Household food insecurity (HFI) is a recognized underlying determinant of child undernutrition, but evidence of associations between HFI and child undernutrition is mixed.

A comprehensive set of infant and young child feeding (IYCF) indicators for international use was published in 2008. Alive & Thrive (A&T) undertook a process to incorporate these indicators into Viet Nam’s National Nutrition Surveillance System (NNSS).

This article was part of a special supplement in the Food and Nutrition Bulletin on the Alive & Thrive (A&T) project. Global interest in scaling up nutrition outcomes has focused attention on the need for more effective programs to improve infant and young child feeding (IYCF).