Focus on Families and Culture: A guide for conducting a participatory assessment on maternal and child nutrition

This guide is for program managers and planners conducting a Maternal and Child Health and Nutrition (MCHN) assessment to investigate intra-household roles and influence. The Focus Families and Culture (FFC) guide introduces a holistic framework that can assist program staff to more effectively identify key priority groups for interventions. After learning about the development and key concepts and the methodology. The guide also includes a step-by-step review of the assessment process, complete with case examples, sample tools and diagrams.

Sectors

Agriculture, Food Security & Nutrition, Family Planning & Reproductive Health

Project Stages

Project Design

Links

Designing for Behavior Change For Agriculture, Natural Resource Management, Health and Nutrition

This field-tested, six-day training curriculum responds to community development managers’, program planners’ and behavior change officers’ need for a practical behavioral framework that helps them with developing effective behavior change strategies in the fields of agriculture, Natural Resource Management(NRM), health, and nutrition.

Sectors

Agriculture, Food Security & Nutrition, Conservation, General Health (non FP/RH)

Project Stages

Monitoring & Evaluation, Project Design

Links

CORE Group: Resource Library

CORE Group’s research library is a searchable list of state-of-the-art tools, curriculums and technical resources covering multiple focus areas including Social and Behavior Change (SBC), FP, social accountability, general health and nutrition. The library was produced with multiple partner and member organizations.

Sectors

Family Planning & Reproductive Health, General Health (non FP/RH)

Project Stages

Cross-cutting, Implementation, Monitoring & Evaluation, Project Design

Links

Care Groups: Resource Guides and Tools

This Care Group repository contains information, presentations, tools, curricula, and results reports regarding Care Group programs. The guides review how care groups are formed, how care groups are used to reduce child deaths and results from using various Care Group models.

Sectors

Agriculture, Food Security & Nutrition, Family Planning & Reproductive Health, General Health (non FP/RH)

Project Stages

Implementation, Project Design

Links

Barrier Analysis Facilitator’s Guide

The Barrier Analysis tool is a rapid assessment tool used in community health and other community development projects to better identify barriers to behavior change that would have a significant positive impact on the health, nutrition, or well-being of targeted groups in a project area. The tool also helps staff members to identify positive aspects of behaviors which can be used in health promotion efforts. The tool is in some ways similar to Doer/NonDoer Analysis (part of the BEHAVE framework), but focuses on a much broader list of possible determinants and barriers.