Resources

Monitoring and evaluation

An Activity-Based Cost Analysis of the Honduras Community-Based Integrated Child Care Program (Atención Integral a la Niñez-Comunitaria [AIN-C])

Author(s): Fiedler J, Villalobos C, De Mattos AC

Authoring organization(s): The World Bank

Published: 2003

Summary: This document reports on a cost-effectiveness analysis of the Honduras AIN-C Program, a preventive health and nutrition program of the Honduras Ministry of Health.

Topic(s): General nutrition, monitoring and evaluation

Type(s): Technical report

Region: Latin America

Anemia Prevention and Control: What Works. Parts 1 (Program Guidance) and 2 (Tools and Resources)

Author(s): Galloway R

Authoring organization(s): US Agency for International Development, World Bank, United Nations Children’s Fund, World Health Organization, Pan American Health Organization, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Micronutrient Initiative

Published: 2003

Summary: Part 1 of this document gives background information on the prevalence and causes of anemia by region, and discusses program approaches and good practices through several case studies of successful programs and other examples. Part 2 provides tools and resources for anemia control programs.

Topic(s): General nutrition, monitoring and evaluation

Type(s): Booklet

Region: Global

Anthropometric Indicators Measurement Guide

Author(s): Cogill B

Authoring organization(s): Food and Nutrition Technical Assistance (FANTA)

Published: 2003

Summary: This revised guide provides information on the anthropometric impact indicators and the annual monitoring indicators for maternal and child health/child survival and income-related activities. The focus is on the collection and reporting of indicators to improve program management and document progress toward the achievement of results.

Topic(s): Monitoring and evaluation

Type(s): Technical report

Region: Global

Designing by Dialogue: A Program Planner’s Guide to Consultative Research for Improving Young Child Feeding

Author(s): Dickin K, Griffiths M, Piwoz E

Authoring organization(s): Health and Human Resources Analysis in Africa and Support for Analysis and Research in Africa Projects/Academy for Educational Development (AED) and the Manoff Group

Published: 1997

Summary: This manual gives program managers tools to design, carry out, and analyze the results of formative, consultative research and to use those results to design effective programs to improve infant and young child feeding. The manual covers a number of different methodologies, including recipe trials and trials of improved practices (TIPS).

Topic(s): General nutrition, monitoring and evaluation

Type(s): Reference manual

Region: Global

Empowering Communities to Respond to HIV/AIDS—Ndola Demonstration Project on Maternal and Child Health, Operations Research Final Report

Authoring organization(s): LINKAGES Project

Published: 2004

Summary: This final report from the LINKAGES Project documents work with the Ndola District Health Management Team to develop the NDP to test the operational feasibility of an integrated mother-to-child transmission risk-reduction approach linked to antenatal care.  

Topic(s): Monitoring and evaluation

Type(s): Technical report

Region: Global

HIV Vertical Transmission StudyIATT

Author(s): Bland RM, Coovadia HM, et al.

Authoring organization(s): Universityof KwaZulu Natal

Published: 2007

Summary: These journal articles, published in Bulletin of the World Health Organization, Clinical Infectious Diseases, and The Lancet describe the training methods and courses used for the Vertical Transmission Study—a large non-randomized intervention cohort study conducted in South Africa—to investigate postnatal HIV transmission associated with infant feeding modes.

Topic(s): Infant feeding and HIV, monitoring and evaluation

Type(s): Journal article

Region: Sub-Saharan Africa

Improving Nutrition: Issues in Management and Capacity Development

Author(s): Heaver R

Authoring organization(s): The World Bank

Published: 2002

Summary: This document discusses issues and good program practices for the design and implementation of community nutrition programs.

Topic(s): General nutrition, monitoring and evaluation

Type(s): Technical report

Region: Global

Indicators for Assessing Infant and Young Child Feeding Practices

Authoring organization(s): World Health Organization

Published: 2008

Summary: As the culmination of a World Health Organization-led five-year effort to develop and reach consensus on a set of simple, valid, and reliable indicators, this document describes eight core and seven optional indicators that are population-based and can be derived from household survey data, such as the Demographic and Health Surveys and the Knowledge, Practice, and Coverage Surveys.

Topic(s): General nutrition, monitoring and evaluation

Type(s): Technical Report

Region: Global

Infant and Young Child Feeding: A Tool for Assessing National Practices, Policies, and Programs

Authoring organization(s): World Health Organization

Published: 2003

Summary: This tool is designed to assist users in assessing the status of infant and young child feeding practices, policies, and programs in their countries. The purpose of such an assessment is to identify strengths and possible weaknesses, with a view to improving the protection, promotion, and support of optimal infant and young child feeding.

Topic(s): Monitoring and evaluation

Type(s): Technical report

Region: Global

Infant and Young Child Feeding Counselling: An Integrated CourseIATT

Author(s): Saadeh R, Bland R, Casanovas C, Vallenas C, et al.

Authoring organization(s): World Health Organization and United Nations Children’s Fund

Published: 2006

Summary: This course on infant feeding practices covers breastfeeding, HIV and infant feeding, and complementary feeding. It is an integrated version of three existing World Health Organization courses, designed for all health professionals, including lay workers, and for people with limited time for training.

Topic(s): Behavior change communication, breastfeeding, infant feeding and HIV, monitoring and evaluation

Type(s): Training guide, PowerPoint

Region: Global
Infant and Young Child Feeding Update

Author(s): Mukuria A, Kothari MT , Abderrahim N

Authoring organization(s): Macro International for the US Agency for International Development

Published: 2006

Summary: This update provides data on key indicators related to optimal feeding practices for children under five. The update includes a new summary of infant and young child feeding indicators for children 6 to 23 months and reports on Demographic and Health Survey data collected between 1998 and 2004 from 43 countries in five regions around the world: sub-Saharan Africa, North Africa/West Asia/Europe, Central Asia, South/Southeast Asia, and Latin America and the Caribbean.

Topic(s): Breastfeeding, general nutrition, monitoring and evaluation

Type(s): Technical report

Region: Global

Infant Feeding Counseling MaterialsIATT

Authoring organization(s): Program for Appropriate Technology in Health

Published: 2006, 2008

Summary: These materials include clinical algorithms geared for health workers (not lay counselors) to use to counsel mothers and determine the most appropriate time to stop breastfeeding; an adaptation and finalization of the World Health Organization (WHO) Infant and Young Child Feeding Counseling: An Integrated Course, including new chapters on complementary feeding and country-specific recommendations; adaptations and local drawings/graphics inspired by the WHO counseling cards; and take-home brochures for mothers on exclusive breastfeeding, expressing breastmilk, and replacement feeding. The set also introduces a new follow-up form to be used at monthly postpartum visits for all infants of HIV-positive mothers.

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Topic(s): Behavior change communication, breastfeeding, infant feeding and HIV, monitoring and evaluation, non-English

Type(s): Brochure, job aid, technical report, training guide

Region: Global

Integrated Prevention of Mother-to-Child Transmission of HIV and Support for Infant Feeding IATT

Authoring organization(s): LINKAGES, United Nations Children’s Fund, Academy for Educational Development

Published: 2004

Summary: This course, developed by the LINKAGES Project, provides participants with a basic understanding of HIV and AIDS facts and prevention, mother-to-child transmission (MTCT) mechanisms, current MTCT risk-reduction interventions, and infant feeding in the context of HIV and AIDS.

Topic(s): Infant feeding and HIV, monitoring and evaluation

Type(s): Training guide

Region: Sub-Saharan Africa
Kenya Infant Feeding and HIV: Reporting Tools

Authoring organization(s): IYCN Project, Society for Women and AIDS in Kenya (SWAK)

Published: 2009

Summary: This collection of materials includes the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation (EGPAF) reporting form to help psychosocial counselors accurately report on their facility-based activities in a standardized way and to provide an opportunity to share successes and challenges they experience; an observation checklist to provide structured feedback to facility-based psychosocial counselors in order to improve their counseling and facilitation skills (the checklist is being used in Kenya by APHIA II Western as part of the supervision activities for counselors trained by EGPAF with support from IYCN); and a SWAK reporting form for SWAK’s community-based workers to report on new infant feeding activities, including individual and group education/counseling topics, referrals provided, and any successes or challenges they experience.

Topic(s): Infant feeding and HIV, Monitoring and evaluation

Type(s): Reporting tools

Region: Sub-Saharan Africa

Knowledge, Practices, and Coverage Survey 2000+ Modules 2 and 3

Authoring organization(s): Child Survival Technical Support+

Published: 2006

Summary: These documents are two of the 15 modules for Knowledge, Practices, and Coverage (KPC) Survey 2000+. The first, KPC Module 2, contains 14 questions on breastfeeding and infant and young child feeding. The second, KPC Module 3, consists of three sub-modules on growth monitoring, child anthropometry, and maternal anthropometry.

Topic(s): Monitoring and evaluation

Type(s): Technical report

Region: Global

Measuring Childcare Practices: Approaches, Indicators, and Implications for Programs

Author(s): Ruel MT, Arimond M

Authoring organization(s): International Food Policy Research Institute

Published: 2003

Summary: With a strong focus on methodology, the authors of this review bridge a gap between researchers and technical program staff by describing program measurement approaches, problems, and solutions for the assessment of child care practices.

Topic(s): Monitoring and evaluation

Type(s): Technical report

Region: Global

Micronutrient Update

Author(s): Mukuria A, Kothari M

Authoring organization(s): Macro International for the US Agency for International Development

Published: 2007

Summary: This Micronutrient Update, which continues where the May 2002 Micronutrient Update left off, presents information on women and children from Demographic and Health Surveys conducted between 2000 and 2005.

Topic(s): Breastfeeding, general nutrition, monitoring and evaluation

Type(s): Journal article

Region: Global

Nutrition Essentials: A Guide for Program Managers

Author(s): Sanghvi T

Authoring organization(s): Basic Support for Institutionalizing Child Survival

Published: 1999

Summary: This is a reference manual for major nutrition interventions to improve maternal and infant and young child nutrition. The document provides background information on the role of nutrition in child survival, priority nutrition interventions, how to strengthen and integrate nutrition in district health services, how to work in the community and suggested community activities, and tools and instruments to support nutrition interventions.

Topic(s): Breastfeeding, complementary feeding, general nutrition, monitoring and evaluation

Type(s): Reference manual

Region: Global

Nutrition Toolkit

Authoring organization(s): The World Bank

Summary: This toolkit includes nine booklets on different nutrition topics, including nutrition project design, basic facts (nuts and bolts in nutrition), economic analysis, growth promotion (child), food supplements, food stamps, monitoring and evaluation, nutrition communications, and school nutrition.

Topic(s): Breastfeeding, complementary feeding, general nutrition, monitoring and evaluation

Type(s): Booklet

Region: Global

Prevention of Mother to Child Transmission (PMTCT) Baseline Survey, Ethiopia, April 2004

Authoring organization(s): US Agency for International Development, Academy for Educational Development-LINKAGES Project

Published: 2004

Summary: This baseline survey was conducted across April and May 2004 as part of the LINKAGES Project and focused on 900 women with infants less than 12 months of age.

Topic(s): Infant feeding and HIV, monitoring and evaluation

Type(s): Technical report

Region: Global

Prevention of Mother-to-Child Transmission of HIV: Generic Training Package IATT

Authoring organization(s): World Health Organization and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Published: 2004, 2008

Summary: The original World Health Organization and US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Prevention of Mother-to-Child Transmission of HIV Generic Training Package was completed in 2004, and the first update was completed in early 2008. This package is a comprehensive, evidence-based course developed for implementation in resource-limited settings. It provides a framework for updating existing policy, developing materials where needed, and a mechanism for developing and sustaining human capacity building for programs.

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Topic(s): Behavior change communication, infant feeding and HIV, monitoring and evaluation, non-English

Type(s): Booklet, poster, training guide

Region: Global

ProPAN: Process for the Promotion of Child Feeding

Authoring organization(s): Emory University, Nutrition Research Institute, National Institute of Public Health, and Pan American Health Organization

Published: 2003

Summary: ProPAN is a manual and software aimed at ministries of health, nongovernmental organizations, and international organizations interested in improving infant and young child feeding practices. It describes a step-by-step process to identify nutrition and dietary problems, determine why these problems occur, and to design and evaluate an intervention based on the problems identified.

Topic(s): General nutrition, monitoring and evaluation

Type(s): Technical report

Region: Global

Repositioning Nutrition as Central to Development: A Strategy for Large-Scale Action

Author(s): Shekar M, Heaver R, Lee Y-K

Authoring organization(s): The World Bank

Published: 2006

Summary: This policy document describes the justification for increasing investments in nutrition, the magnitude of malnutrition, the programs that work, and how to take programs to scale.

Topic(s): General nutrition, monitoring and evaluation

Type(s): Book

Region: Global

What are the Options: Using Formative Research to Adapt Global Recommendations on HIV and Infant Feeding to the Local Context

Author(s): Piwoz E

Authoring organization(s): World Health Organization

Published: 2004

Summary: The purpose of this manual is to provide program managers, researchers, and policymakers with basic guidance on how to conduct local assessments to establish the range of replacement feeding options and breast milk feeding options that may be acceptable, feasible, affordable, sustainable, and safe in different contexts.

Topic(s): Monitoring and evaluation

Type(s): Technical report

Region: Global

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