ORGANIZATION
USAID
YEAR PUBLISHED
2015
DESCRIPTION
The purpose of this document is to provide guidance on how to plan and carry out a rapid community assessment on family roles and influence related to the first critical 1,000 days of life i.e. during pregnancy, with newborns and young children up to two years of age. The guide helps identify what information is needed, why it is important to collect that information and how it can be collected and analyzed so that it can be used to design more effective maternal and child nutrition programs. In this guide, the presentation of GMP’s FOCUS ON FAMILY AND CULTURE assessment methodology deals specifically with nutritional issues associated with pregnancy, newborns and young children. However, the methodology can be adapted to address numerous nutrition and health issues related to pregnant women, newborns, young children, adolescents, etc.