Language: English
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Linking the Village to the Child
May 2016 — This fact sheet summarizes technical assistance by FHI 360 to Ethiopian neighborhood care groups, known as community care coalitions, with the purpose of identifying vulnerable children and linking them with critical support services.
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The Art of Better Parenting
May 2016 — This fact sheet describes the resources FHI 360 developed for use in Ethiopia to encourage parents to adopt better parenting skills, including communicating with children and developing positive disciplinary methods. The fact sheet also includes a testimonial from a parent who successfully used the resources.
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Mobile Media Campaign Reaches Remote Villages to Promote Nutrition
September 2015 — This fact sheet outlines the mobile media campaign by the SHIKHA project in rural Bangladesh. The award-winning campaign was designed to reach communities with limited access to electricity to improve breastfeeding and complementary feeding of infants and young children and promote healthier maternal diets. Teams traveled to villages with televisions and generators…
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Designing a Food Plate for Dietary Counseling of Pregnant Women
September 2015 — The SHIKHA project is implementing interventions to improve diet and nutrition among pregnant women and children ages 0 to 2 in rural Bangladesh. As part of SHIKHA’s maternal nutrition component, nutrition workers use a food plate to counsel pregnant women about healthy and balanced diets. This fact sheet describes the seven steps used to…
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One-Year Survey Shows Improvements in Infant and Young Child Feeding Practices
September 2015 — A household survey after one year of implementation has shown that — even in a short amount of time — the by the SHIKHA project’s infant and young child feeding interventions have had a positive effect. Breastfeeding and complementary feeding practices have increased in the project areas, as have handwashing practices, which are important…
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Exploring the Potential of Schoolchildren as Change Agents in the Context of School WASH in Rural Zambia: Final Report
July 2014 — Access to adequate water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) at school has been shown to improve health of pupils and increase school attendance. Interventions that target the school can also serve as an entry point to improve WASH access at home. In this study, conducted through the school-based WASH program, SPLASH, and funded by the…
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Development Sector Adjacency Map: A Planning Tool for Integrated Development
May 2016 — In the global development context, adjacencies are represented by the sectors that lie outside of a particular program’s current scope yet are related enough that they pose opportunities for strategic integration. Integrated development, therefore, seeks to deliberately leverage key sector adjacencies by creating more multi-faceted, holistic approaches that ultimately produce amplified impact. FHI 360’s…
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Integrated Development Case Studies
April 2016 — To better understand the effectiveness of multisector, integrated approaches, FHI 360 aggregated information from 68 integrated development programs that we have delivered or are currently implementing. Rarely are distinct programs, even from the same sectors, offered the opportunity to combine their lessons. By packaging and sharing this body of knowledge, we aim to…
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USAID/Uganda Community Connector Technical Note Series
This series of nine technical notes from the USAID/Uganda Community Connector (CC) Project reviews the multisectoral components and how the project is supporting each one. The CC project is a U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) Feed the Future flagship program, which provides a comprehensive and multisectoral approach to improving household food security, income and…
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Monitoring, Evaluation, Research and Learning at CDS
This document describes how CDS uses monitoring and evaluation to assess the project’s progress and help partners develop their monitoring and evaluation capacity.