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Dataset for: Feed the Future's Viable Sweetpotato Technology in Africa (VISTA) - Mozambique Nutrition Monitoring Survey 2017.

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Title Dataset for: Feed the Future's Viable Sweetpotato Technology in Africa (VISTA) - Mozambique Nutrition Monitoring Survey 2017.
 
Identifier https://doi.org/10.21223/P3/ZDAAHK
 
Creator Bocher, Temesgen
 
Publisher International Potato Center
 
Description Nutrition activity monitoring survey was conducted to understand how the nutrition messaging is conveyed to beneficiary families who have been targeted by VISTA’s nutrition awareness building through a training, and the impact of traditional believes in improving the nutritional knowledge. Data was collected from 426 women, randomly selected women from the list of families under the supervision of community health workers in 10 districts namely: Meconta, Monapo, Rapale, Malema, Murrupula, and Mogovolas districts from Nampula province; and Alto Molocue, Gurue, Mocuba, and Gile, from Zambezia province. Four major sections were included in the survey the these are: Demographic composition of participant’s family; Nutrition and health knowledge of the caregiver; Child feeding practices, and Caregiver (defined as a woman taking care of children less than 5-years of age) and children and women food consumption (vitamin A rich food intake frequencies, and dietary diversity). Women-minimum dietary diversity (W-MDD), and Child dietary diversity (CDD) scores were computed using FANTA/WHO standard approach with recall period of 24-hours. Vitamin A rich food consumption frequency is based on 7-days recall period, using Helen Keller International (HKI) approach.

VISTA project reported as the main source of information for families to introduce the types of foods rich in vitamin; followed by the health centers. This is mainly as result of cascaded nutrition education by community health worker supported by the project. In 2017 alone, the project has supported more than 1,200 community health workers (CHWs) who in turn each trained 12-15 families in their community. Access to information source, such as Radios is very low in the study area; generally, sweetpotato knowledge, is still low; however, most of the respondents heard about vitamin A. Traditional believes and perceptions still remain major bottle necks in the effort to promote consumption of nutritious food items during pregnancy and the first-1000 days of child life, more than one-quarter of the surveyed women believes that giving the first milk (colostrum) when the baby was born is bad for the child’s health; and about 10% believes eating egg during pregnancy causes child blindness.
 
Subject Social Sciences
Nutrition surveys
Monitoring and Evaluation
Sweetpotatoes
Technology transfer
Mozambique
 
Language English
Portuguese
 
Date 2017-09-28
 
Contributor Okuku, Haile Selassie
United States Agency for International Development (USAID)
CGIAR Research Program on Roots, Tubers and Bananas (RTB)
International Potato Center
 
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