A UNICEF / Catholic Relief Services project has investigated fathers’ engagement in infant nutrition in the Muhanga and Karongi districts of Rewanda. The existing programme targets pregnant and lactating women …
Tag: infant diet
A study in Rwanda carried out by two Swedish nursing undergraduates, Eleonor Bergström and Olivia Söderström Högling at Sophiahemmet University, looked at the involvement of nurses in encouraging father involvement in …
A recent study from a coffee growing region of Ethiopia has shown that adequate diet for children correlates with both maternal autonomy and paternal engagement in childcare, two key characteristics …
An Ethiopian study has found that what a young child (6 -23 months) eats correlates with many aspects of fathers’ knowledge and practice of child health and childcare. Children are …
The most widely implemented family inclusive approach that we have found to date is World Vision’s Time and Targeted Counselling (ttC) for health and nutrition. The approach is now being …
A community-based parenting programme in Uganda engaging both mothers and fathers and their children under 3 years has found that the most popular message in the programme was “love and …
Early next year (2016) Family Included will be commencing its first collaborative international research study. The research focuses on increasing awareness about a healthy diet in pregnancy and during the …
In western Kenya, PATH researchers from US and Kenya organised eight father and ten grandmother self-help groups to promote and support recommended maternal diet and infant/child feeding practices. After four …