Community Video for Nutrition Guide

This Guide is a step-by-step reference to support the design and implementation of a community-led video project focused on MIYCN behaviors. Not a comprehensive programming tool, it is intended to be used in combination with DG’s SOPs and with video production, editing, and monitoring and information system (MIS) training manuals.

This Guide is specifically intended to provide organizations, projects, and practitioners interested in using or testing community video for maternal, infant, and young child nutrition (MIYCN) with the critical information and tools needed to initiate, produce, and disseminate a participatory community-video approach for MIYCN.

References are provided for the necessary formative research, training, equipment specifications, and other tools outlined in the appendices to this package as well as for the training materials, forms, and sample program-planning documents found in the DG SOPs. These tools are intended to be reviewed and adjusted or adapted to meet a project’s specific needs and local context. To facilitate adaptation, each tool in the appendices is available to be downloaded in editable Word format.

This Guide focuses on the three specific components of the SPRING/DG approach (Initiation, Production, and Diffusion) and goes into detail about the nutrition-specific adaptations of the DG standard model outlined in the DG SOPs. The MIYCN-specific elements that make up the bulk of this Guide are specifically noted in boxes at the beginning of each chapter and bolded in the figures detailing the steps of the approach. Implementation tips are also included in each chapter, along with anecdotes describing specific challenges or experiences encountered while testing the approach.

Last modified: August 16, 2021

Language: English, French

Monitoring and Evaluation Capacity Assessment Toolkit

This tookit, known as MECAT, is a set of tools to guide organizations through a process that assesses an organization’s current M&E capacity, identifies gaps, and indicates areas to strengthen the organization’s capacity for improving the M&E system.

MECAT is useful at the national, subnational, and programmatic levels to gain insight into numerous aspects of M&E capacity:

• Understand current M&E capacity
• Determine gaps
• Identify and prioritize interventions to strengthen M&E
• Guide organizational decision making
• Design capacity-building interventions
• Monitor progress in M&E capacity-building efforts
• Identify current M&E system technical and financial independence MECAT can give an organization insight into its capacity to conduct M&E activities and assess the capabilities of individual staff members to carry out M&E functions.

MECAT uses standardized tools to assess capacity to undertake and accomplish M&E activities, by measuring the status, quality, and sustainability of current M&E activities. The results are useful for guiding and prioritizing the steps an organization needs to take to strengthen the capacity of its M&E systems.

TOOLS:

• User Guide can be found here.
• Individual Assessment tool can be found here.
• Group Assessment tool can be found here.

French version of the toolkit can be found here.

Last modified: August 16, 2021

Language: English, French