Identifies actions during pregnancy and the first 2 years to improve nutrition and the impact on child health, education, and economic development.

Covers recommended complementary feeding practices in 12 sessions using adult learning principles that include food demonstrations and role plays of counseling.

This implementation manual for BRAC’s community-based Alive & Thrive IYCF program describes four core interventions (home visits, antenatal/postnatal care, health forums, and community mobilization) and the human resources, training, supervision, incentives, and monitoring to support them.

Trainer Manual 2 is designed for use by trainers to prepare health-facility workers to deliver quality IYCF counseling services.

The trainer manual is designed for use in training village health workers to facilitate infant and young child feeding support groups at community level.