ProPAN: process for the promotion of child feeding: field manual
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ProPAN is a set of research tools designed for ministries of health (MoHs), nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), and bilateral and international organizations working to improve the diets and feeding practices of children under 24 months old to prevent early childhood malnutrition. ProPAN guides users through a step-by-step process for identifying problems related to young child nutrition, breastfeeding, and complementary feeding within a specific target population; defining the context in which these problems occur, including barriers to and facilitators of improved or ideal practices; formulating, testing, and selecting behavior-change recommendations and nutritional recipes; developing the interventions to promote them; and designing a monitoring and evaluation system to measure progress toward intervention goals. ProPAN materials include a multi-module field manual with detailed instructions on how to collect, analyze, and integrate the quantitative and qualitative data required to design and evaluate interventions, and an Epi Info -based software program developed specifically for quantitative analysis of household demographic and socio-economic characteristics and infant and young child diets, and as an analytical tool for identifying locally available foods that provide the greatest amount of energy and nutrients at the lowest cost. |