Table 1 Inputs, activities, and outputs of the Project’s nutrition interventions

Manual for Care Groups

Manual for PD/Hearth

 intervention

Community registers and maps

Personnel: 26 Level-2 Promoters,

 3 Care Group Supervisors, 3

 Municipal Coordinators, 184

 Level-1 Promoters, 779 Care

 Group Volunteers, 3 PEC

 Ambulatory Nurses, 5 PEC

 Auxiliary Nurses, 17 PEC

 Level-2 Promoters

Scales for weighing children

Measuring boards for

 determining height

Training of Level-2 and Level-1

 Promoters and Care Group 

 Volunteers in nutrition

Establishment of Care Groups and

 Self-Help Groups

Training of staff in Positive

 Deviance intervention and

 anthropometry

Care Group meetings

Self-Help Group meetings

Growth monitoring of children 0- 

 < 24 months of age

PD/Hearth: weighing/measuring,

 survey of positive deviants, and

 design of menu and workshops

Talleres Hogareños (community

 workshops on complementary

 feeding) for mothers of children

 6- < 24 months of age with growth

 faltering

Provision of anti-helminthic

 medication

28 Level-2 Promoters, 184 Level-1

 Promoters, and 779 Care Group

 Volunteers trained in EBF,

 complementary feeding,

 anthropometry, and PD/Hearth

 intervention

At least 93% of children 0- < 24 

 months evaluated for stunting,

 underweight, and acute malnutrition

 during each anthropometric

 census/barrido

31 children referred to a government

 health facility for management of

 wasting

468 children enrolled in the

 PD/Hearth program, which held 736

 complementary feeding workshop

 sessions (Talleres Hogareños)

8,080 mothers educated in EBF and

 IBF and in proper complementary

 feeding practices