Focus on Families and Culture: A guide for conducting a participatory assessment on maternal and child nutrition (English & French)

The purpose of this document is to provide guidance on how to plan and carry out a rapid community assessment on family roles and influence related to the first critical 1,000 days of life i.e. during pregnancy, with newborns and young children up to two years of age. The guide helps identify what information is needed, why it is important to collect that information and how it can be collected and analyzed so that it can be used to design more effective maternal and child nutrition programs. In this guide, the presentation of GMP’s FOCUS ON FAMILY AND CULTURE assessment methodology deals specifically with nutritional issues associated with pregnancy, newborns and young children. However, the methodology can be adapted to address numerous nutrition and health issues related to pregnant women, newborns, young children, adolescents, etc.

The FOCUS ON FAMILIES AND CULTURE assessment guide is primarily for use by PVO and NGO staff responsible for planning and managing community nutrition programs, and for the person/s who will coordinate the assessment that you plan to carry out. It will also be of interest to researchers and government departments involved in research on MCHN.

Source: USAID
Year: 2015