USAID Mission [www.usaid.gov/gt/] Guatemalan Ministry of Public Health [www.mspas.gob.gt/]

Guatemala

See Also: Food Aid; Food Security; Infant and Child Nutrition; Women's and Adolescents' Nutrition

To improve scale-up and replication of the Community-Based Integrated Child and Women's Care (Atención Integral a la Niñez y la Mujer - AINM-C) program throughout Guatemala, FANTA has worked with USAID/Guatemala, the Guatemala Ministry of Health (MOH), USAID/URC/Calidad en Salud and Title II Cooperating Sponsors (CSs) to identify and agree on standards and norms for implementation and to help develop a country-specific maternal and child health and nutrition (MCHN) working group to encourage dialogue and sharing of program practices. FANTA also trained implementing partners in areas such as behavior change communication strategies and child feeding.

Outcome Monitoring Surveys: USAID/Guatemala has piloted Outcome Monitoring, a method for collecting data on a set of indicators that allows the U.S. Government to monitor outcomes of the key health activities it supports. FANTA implemented the survey, which consisted of both population-based and facility-based components, and, working through a local firm, collected data covering MCHN and family planning/reproductive health.

Building Capacity to Improve Infant and Young Child Feeding: FANTA and USAID/URC/Calidad en Salud held a ProPAN: Process for the Promotion of Child Feeding workshop for Title II CSs, the MOH and other organizations working in nutrition and food security. ProPAN provides users with a step-by-step process for investigating nutritional and dietary problems and provides tools to design and evaluate behavior change interventions to address the problems. FANTA also conducted a workshop that equipped the CSs with the knowledge of behavior change theory and qualitative research techniques needed to conduct formative research investigations.

Building Capacity in Behavior Change Interventions: To increase the impact of the MCHN component of Title II development projects, FANTA provided training on the use of behavior change in the design and implementation of MCHN programming. The workshop covered basic frameworks and methods such as the BEHAVE framework, Positive Deviance Inquiry, Manoff's Behavior-Centered Programming and an introduction to the ProPAN method for developing behavior change communications.

MCHN Working Groups: To strengthen dialogue and encourage sharing of effective practices among partners, FANTA helped establish MCHN Working Groups in Guatemala. FANTA also conducted a workshop in Guatemala to help analyze qualitative data that Title II PVOs collected as part of formative research for behavior change interventions in MCHN and agriculture.

USAID Country Profile
[http://www.usaid.gov/locations/latin_america_caribbean/
country/guatemala/]

UNICEF Country Profile
[http://www.unicef.org/infobycountry/guatemala.html]

WFP Country Profile
[http://www.wfp.org/country_brief/indexcountry.asp?
country=320®ion=4§ion=9&sub_section=4]

Demographic and Health Surveys Country Survey
[http://www.measuredhs.com/countries/
country_main.cfm?ctry_id=15]

FAO Country Food Security Statistics
[http://www.fao.org/faostat/foodsecurity/
Countries/EN/Guatemala_e.pdf]

World Bank Country Data Profile
[http://devdata.worldbank.org/external/CPProfile.asp?Selected
Country=GTM&CCODE=GTM&CNAME=Guatemala&PTYPE=CP]

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