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This series This series of Title II Generic Indicator Guides has been developed by the Food and Nutrition Technical Assistance (FANTA) Project, and its predecessor projects (LINKAGES and IMPACT), as part of USAID’s support to develop monitoring and evaluation systems for use in Title II programs. These guides are intended to provide the technical basis for the indicators and the recommended method for collecting, analyzing and reporting on the indicators. A list of Title II Generic Indicators that were developed in consultation with the cooperating sponsors in 1995/1996 is included in Appendix 8. The guides are available on the project website www.fantaproject.org. Below is the list of available guides: Agricultural Productivity Indicators Measurement Guide Food Security Indicators and Framework for Use in the Monitoring and Evaluation of Food Aid Programs Infant and Child Feeding Indicators Measurement Guide Measuring Household Food Consumption: A Technical Guide Sampling Guide Water and Sanitation Indicators Measurement Guide.
P ART 1.Introduction 1. This guide provides information on the Anthropometric Impact Indicators and the Annual Monitoring Indicators for Maternal and Child Health/Child Survival (MCH/CS) and income-related Title II activities, a subset of the P.L. 480 Title II Generic Performance Indicators for Development Activities. The impact indicators are: • decreased percent of stunted children (presented for ages 24-60 months and by gender), where stunting is defined as percent of children falling below -2 standard deviations for height-for-age; • decreased percent of underweight children (in specified age groupings such as 12-24 months 36-59 months and by gender) where underweight is defined as percent of children falling below -2 standard deviations for weight-for-age. These indicators are required for the reports of projects with specific nutrition components and are collected at baseline, mid-term and final-year evaluations. Stunting, reflected by deficits in height-for-age would not be expected to change in a short time period. It is recommended, therefore, not to report stunting figures annually. Underweight (or weight for age), reported for specific age groupings, would change more quickly as it is influenced by short-term effects such as a recent outbreak of diarrheal diseases. Some programs report stunting for children under 24 months of age rather than the recommended 24-60 months age grouping. Restricting the age grouping to children under 24 months has the disadvantage of not capturing the lagged effects of the program and reducing the numbers of potential participants in a survey. The advantage of using children under 24 months is that the data are more useful to determine the factors related to stunting for program design or redesign. The monitoring indicators are: • increased percent of eligible children in growth monitoring/promotion (usually presented for children
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