Resource Type: Fact sheet

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • Ministry of Health and Family Welfare Endorses Food Plate as a Counseling Tool for Pregnant and Lactating Women

    June 2016 — This fact sheet talks about how a new version of the food plate, designed as an innovative counseling tool for pregnant women in rural Bangladesh and endorsed by the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, was developed and received by the stakeholders. 

  • 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.

  • PEACE IQC: Programming Effectively Against Conflict and Extremism

    April 2016 — FHI 360 is a holder of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) Programming Effectively Against Conflict and Extremism (PEACE) Indefinite Quantity Contract (IQC). This brochure gives an overview of the scope of the mechanism and FHI 360’s approach and team of partners. The FHI 360 PEACE IQC team provides participating USAID Missions and…

  • m360 Mobile Platform (fact sheet)

    February 2019 — This fact sheet describes FHI 360’s m360 Mobile Platform, an open-source, mobile based platform that allows users to collect, analyze and report on a full range of real-time information through daily data capture and interactive dashboards.

  • Scaling Up Voluntary Medical Male Circumcision for HIV Prevention in Kenya’s Nakuru County

    September 2015 — The APHIAplus Nuru ya Bonde project supported Kenya’s Ministry of Health to provide voluntary medical male circumcision (VMMC) services from 2011 to 2014 in Nakuru — one of the 10 counties in Kenya with the highest HIV burden. This brief highlights the achievements and lessons learned in the scale-up of VMMC services in Nakura,…