Grandmother Dialogue GroupsFather Dialogue Groups

  • Role of grandmothers in infant and young child feeding and maternal nutrition

  • Overview of maternal and infant and young child nutrition and the local health situation

  • Eating during pregnancy and breastfeeding

  • Early initiation of breastfeeding

  • Exclusive breastfeeding

  • Complementary feeding

  • Preparing food safely

  • Responsive feeding

  • What to do when a child falls ill

  • Mother‐to‐child transmission of HIV

  • Infant feeding and HIV

  • Supporting mothers with HIV and their families (including referrals and promoting health seeking)

  • Facilitation skills

  • Effective family communication

  • Infant feeding beliefs and myths

  • Understanding gender

  • Gender roles: behaviors and division of labor and child care in the home

  • Healthy and unhealthy relationships

  • Effective communication

  • Thinking about fatherhood

  • Family care

  • Poor child health “problem tree”

  • What your family eats

  • Understanding maternal and child nutrition

  • Supporting good infant feeding practices during the first 6 months of life

  • Complementary feeding

  • What to do when your child falls ill

  • Mother‐to‐child transmission of HIV

  • Infant feeding and HIV

  • Disclosure of HIV status (role plays)

  • Men, women, and caregiving

  • Men’s role in health promotion