Improving Feeding of Young Children During and After Illness: A Behavioral Design Approach

About the Event

For young children experiencing an illness, adequate nutrition is critical to recovery. However, children often do not receive the recommended amounts of food during and after an illness.

During this webinar, Breakthrough ACTION and USAID Advancing Nutrition will share insights from a behavioral design process completed in South Kivu, Democratic Republic of the Congo. The qualitative research we conducted with families and health workers underscored that caregivers want to feed their children well, but it also highlighted several behavioral factors that lead them to feel discouraged and at times powerless by the constraints they face. Through a collaborative design process, we developed solutions that help families set achievable goals for feeding during and after illness, expand their choice set to include additional affordable and nutritious local foods, build skills and confidence to overcome limited appetite, and celebrate each bite as a small victory. We will share insights from the design process, including prototypes that were tested and dropped from the solution set, as well as implications of the work for a global audience.

Speakers

OPENING REMARKS
Laura Itzkowitz, USAID
Béatrice Tshiala, Programme Nationale de Nutrition, Democratic Republic of the Congo

FEATURED PRESENTERS
Augustin Ngandu, Breakthrough ACTION
Emily Zimmerman, Breakthrough ACTION

CLOSING REMARKS
Lisa Sherburne, USAID Advancing Nutrition

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