A&T Ethiopia Complementary Feeding Baseline Survey 2015: Health Extension Workers

cg.authorship.typesCGIAR single centreen
cg.contributor.crpAgriculture for Nutrition and Health
cg.contributor.donorBill & Melinda Gates Foundationen
cg.coverage.countryEthiopia
cg.coverage.iso3166-alpha2ET
cg.coverage.regionAfrica
cg.coverage.regionSub-Saharan Africa
cg.coverage.regionEastern Africa
cg.identifier.dataurlhttps://doi.org/10.7910/dvn/4w1fp8en
cg.identifier.dataurlhttps://doi.org/10.7910/dvn/svkw4ken
cg.identifier.dataurlhttps://doi.org/10.7910/dvn/wjdpg6en
cg.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.7910/dvn/ckipwuen
cg.identifier.projectIFPRI - Alive and Thrive
cg.identifier.projectIFPRI - Poverty, Health, and Nutrition Division
cg.identifier.publicationRankNot ranked
cg.placeWashington, DCen
cg.reviewStatusInternal Reviewen
dc.contributor.authorInternational Food Policy Research Instituteen
dc.date.accessioned2024-06-04T09:44:15Zen
dc.date.available2024-06-04T09:44:15Zen
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/144529
dc.titleA&T Ethiopia Complementary Feeding Baseline Survey 2015: Health Extension Workersen
dcterms.abstractThis dataset is the result of the health extension workers (HEW) survey that was conducted to gather data at baseline as part of the study assessing the impact of the A&T social and behavior change communication (SBCC) interventions in the Amhara region of Ethiopia. A&T is a global initiative that supports the scaling up of nutrition interventions to save lives, prevent illnesses, and contribute to healthy growth and development through improved maternal nutrition, breastfeeding and complementary feeding practices. A&T's focus in this phase of the study in Ethiopia (with program implementation from late 2014 to 2017) is on operationalizing the IYCF component of the Government of Ethiopia’s National Nutrition Plan (NNP) in one region, Amhara. The objectives of the A&T initiative in Amhara are as follows: 1) Sustain high rates of EBF among children 0–5.9 months at over 70 percent in A&T program areas, 2) Increase the proportion of children 6–23.9 months of age who receive a diverse diet (at least four food groups) by 10 percentage points in A&T program area, and 3) Increase the proportion of breastfed and non-breastfed children 6–23.9 months of age who receive solid, semi-solid, or soft foods at least the minimum number of times per day by 10 percentage points in A&T program areas. A cluster-randomized design with repeated cross-sectional surveys at baseline (2015) and endline (2017) were used to assess impact of the A&T social and behavior change communication (SBCC) interventions in Amhara region, particularly the community-based interventions (interpersonal communication and social mobilization) and mass media activities. The evaluation includes household and frontline worker (FLW) surveys. Twenty woredas (districts) were purposively selected as potential areas of work by A&T HQ and Save the Children, and the select woredas were randomly assigned as 10 intervention (or A&T-intensive, A&T-I) and 10 comparison (or A&T-Non intensive, A&T-NI) woredas. The baseline survey applied four structured questionnaires: (1) household questionnaire and anthropometric measurements of children and mothers, (2) community questionnaire, (3) frontline worker questionnaire: Health extension worker (HEW), and (4) Frontline worker questionnaire: Health development army team leader (HDTL). The health extension worker (HEW) questionnaire (along with the HDTL questionnaire) was applied to those working close to or in the community. These questionnaires aim at assessing four major issues: (1) frequency of interactions between FLWs and mothers/caregivers and modes of interactions; (2) content of the interactions between FLWs and mothers/caregivers, especially discussions about IYCF messages and the time spent on IYCF-related discussions; (3) IYCF knowledge and training received by FLWs; and (4) FLWs’ motivation and satisfaction about their jobs. These are captured by questions on perceptions related to workload and level of job satisfaction.en
dcterms.accessRightsOpen Access
dcterms.bibliographicCitationInternational Food Policy Research Institute. 2020. A&T Ethiopia Complementary Feeding Baseline Survey 2015: Health Extension Workers. Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute. https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/CKIPWU. Harvard Dataverse. Version 1.en
dcterms.issued2020
dcterms.languageen
dcterms.licenseCC-BY-4.0
dcterms.publisherInternational Food Policy Research Instituteen
dcterms.relationhttps://doi.org/10.2499/p15738coll2.134178en
dcterms.replaceshttps://ebrary.ifpri.org/digital/collection/p15738coll3/id/460en
dcterms.subjecteducationen
dcterms.subjectwork satisfactionen
dcterms.subjectmotivationen
dcterms.subjecthealthen
dcterms.subjectmass mediaen
dcterms.subjecttrainingen
dcterms.subjectnutrition educationen
dcterms.subjectnutritionen
dcterms.subjectinfant feedingen
dcterms.subjectchild feedingen
dcterms.subjectdeveloping countriesen
dcterms.subjectbreastfeedingen
dcterms.typeDataset

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