and Micronutrients Sample Clauses

and Micronutrients. The nutrition intervention was implemented as outlined in the DIP in accordance with MOH and international standards. Indicators and results for this intervention included:

and Micronutrients. The Project’s strategy to ameliorate nutritional status was successful and included complementary activities such as community growth monitoring nutrition education and counselling; improvement of breastfeeding practices through women’s support groups; and improving access to food through home food production, micro credit for seeds, plants and fertilizer, and training in home financial management. A comparison of data from the Baseline Knowledge, Practice and Coverage Survey (KPC) in 1999 and the Final Survey in 2002 show that families with home food production increased from 33.8% to 40.1%. There was a dramatic increase in the number of children under two years of age who were fed five times a day, from 3.5% to 37.6%, indicating that the AIN1 growth monitoring and counseling strategy was extremely successful. Regarding possession of the child growth cards, the 1999 KPC indicates that 84.9% of children had cards, and of these 70.9% had been weighed at least once in the last 4 months. These figures improved significantly by 2002, when almost all children had a card (95%) and the majority (81%) had been weighed at least twice in the last 6 months. A comparison of the baseline and final KPC Surveys show positive changes in child feeding practices: giving tea to children decreased from 40% to 32.8%; use of powdered milk was reduced from 54.7% to 45.5%; consumption of soy products increased from 12.7% to 24.4%; and incorporation of green leaves in the diet increased from 3.3% to 14.7%.