GuatemalaSee
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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