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Breastfeeding, LAM and related complementary feeding and maternal nutrition program (LINKAGES)

The adverse effects of deficiencies in vitamin A, iron, and folic acid, which include night blindness in pregnant and lactating women and iron deficiency anemia, are well known. DEC abstract (PN-ACE-393)

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Review evidence

93 facts shown; 2 unconfirmed links; 0 support mechanisms (not programs); 153 documents cite this program.

The one-paragraph answer: years, implementer, funder and purpose, each from document metadata.

Since 1997, LINKAGES has worked with the National Food and Nutrition Commission of Zambia on developing a national breastfeeding policy.1 A LINKAGES training and community coordinator conducted an assessment in Nicaragua to explore introducing breastfeeding and the lactation amenorrhea method (LAM) of fertility control into existing health programs.2

Source: generated from documents. Each number opens the page it was written from.

Operated in: Africa South of Sahara, Madagascar, Zambia, Indonesia, Jordan, Latin America, Bolivia, India, Ghana, Brazil, Ethiopia, Nepal, Guinea, West Africa, Mexico, Horn of Africa, Guatemala, Vietnam, South Africa, Southern Hemisphere, East Africa, Nicaragua, Uganda.

Years: 1997 to 2006 award start, end from document years
Implementer: Academy for Educational Development, Inc. (AED); Wellstart International; Makerere University; and 8 more 152 sources
Funder or award: USAID. Bur. for Global Programs, Field Support, and Research. Center for Population, Health and Nutrition. Ofc. of Health and Nutrition; HRN-A-97-00007; AOT-C-92-00178
Purpose: Not available yet: the program's stated purpose has not been read from its documents.

Districts, regions and facilities the program's own documents name, with what the document says it did there. Source: sentences in the program's documents

Districts, regions and facilities named in the program's own documents, not verified sites. Place dots exist for Malawi and Guatemala only so far.

Sample Built from district names in Malawi documents while the full place data loads; it is not yet the finished place list.

Solid: the documents describe the program's work there. Faint: named in the program's documents. Bigger means more mentions. Shown: district; squares are facilities.

District · 1 mention · 2002

Countries where this program operated, set by the countries its documents name most often. Countries only tagged on documents are listed apart. Source: document tags, scope rule

When the program ran, from its start year to the latest document year. A hatched bar means the start is our estimate. Source: award and document years

Axis: award years, end from years in documents. The start year comes from award fiscal year; the end is the latest document year, so the program may have run longer.

Who started the program, and which administration it began under. Timing only; it does not say who started it. Source: initiative records, start year

Organizations that ran this program, from award records and document authors. Prime and sub roles are not split yet. Source: award and document records

Named as an institutional author on documents; whether prime, sub or consortium member is not recorded. Basis: read from a record field

Organizations named on this program's documents.
Name	Role	Years	Basis	Evidence
Academy for Educational Development, Inc. (AED)	implementer	1997 to 2006	Stated in a document	152 sources
Wellstart International	implementer	1999 to 2004	Stated in a document	5 sources

Identifiers of the awards and the organizations that funded it. Amounts are under Money. Source: award records

Basis: read from a record field

Awards this program is funded through (identifiers, not amounts).
Name	Years	Basis	Evidence
HRN-A-97-00007 (cooperative agreement, FY1997)	1997 to 2006	Stated in a document	152 sources
AOT-C-92-00178 (contract, FY1992)	1997 to 2002	Stated in a document	6 sources

Labels on the program's documents, not a description of what the program did. Source: DEC document tags

Programs worth reading next, by topic, implementer, country and years. Similar by facets (topic, implementer, country, years) and, when available, description. It says the programs look alike, not how they are related in time. Source: catalog facets

Not recorded yet: support mechanisms, money rows, evaluations and lessons. A missing record is not a finding. USAspending records start in FY2007; earlier obligations are missing, not zero.

Every document that cites this program, grouped by a stage label from a weak classifier. Source: document library

Name	Role	Years	Basis	Evidence
Ethiopia. Ministry of Health	lead ministry	2004	Likely, not confirmed	1 source
Ethiopia. Ministry of Education	lead ministry	2004	Likely, not confirmed	1 source

Name	Years	Basis	Evidence
USAID. Bur. for Global Programs, Field Support, and Research. Center for Population, Health and Nutrition. Ofc. of Health and Nutrition	1997 to 2001	Stated in a document	58 sources
USAID. Bur. for Global Health. Ofc. of Health, Infectious Diseases, and Nutrition	2002 to 2006	Stated in a document	55 sources
USAID. Bur. for Global Health. Ofc. of Health and Nutrition	2000 to 2006	Stated in a document	33 sources
USAID. Bur. for Africa. Ofc. of Sustainable Development	1997 to 2002	Stated in a document	8 sources
USAID. Bur. for Global Health. Ofc. of Population and Reproductive Health	2003 to 2004	Stated in a document	5 sources
USAID. Bur. for Global Programs, Field Support, and Research. Center for Population, Health and Nutrition. Ofc. of Population	1997	Stated in a document	4 sources
USAID. Mission to Zambia	1997 to 1999	Stated in a document	4 sources
USAID. Bur. for Africa. Regional Economic Development Services Ofc. (REDSO) East Africa	2001	Stated in a document	3 sources
USAID. Mission to Madagascar	1999 to 2004	Stated in a document	2 sources
USAID. Mission to Bolivia	1997	Stated in a document	1 source
USAID. Mission to Ethiopia	2004	Stated in a document	1 source
USAID. Mission to Jordan	1997	Stated in a document	1 source
USAID. Mission to Nicaragua	1997	Stated in a document	1 source
USAID. Mission to Uganda	1998	Stated in a document	1 source
USAID. Ofc. of Food for Peace (FFP)	2003	Stated in a document	1 source

Breastfeeding, LAM and related complementary feeding and maternal nutrition program (LINKAGES)

Evaluatorsassessed the program, never counted as implementers

Host-government counterpartsthe government body the program worked with

Name	Role	Years	Basis	Evidence
Emory University. Carter Center	implementer	2004	Stated in a document	1 source
Coordinating and Cooperating Agency for the Control of Important Endemic Diseases	implementer	2000	Stated in a document	1 source
Partnership for Child Health Care, Inc.	implementer	2000	Stated in a document	1 source

Name	Years	Basis	Evidence
Ctr for Population, Health & Nutrition	1998 to 2006	Stated in a document	99 sources
Africa Regional	1997 to 2002	Stated in a document	10 sources
Zambia	1997 to 2006	Stated in a document	7 sources
Jordan	1997 to 2005	Stated in a document	6 sources
Madagascar	1999 to 2006	Stated in a document	6 sources
Bolivia	1997 to 2003	Stated in a document	5 sources
Ghana	2002 to 2004	Stated in a document	4 sources
Ethiopia	2004 to 2006	Stated in a document	3 sources
India	2000 to 2004	Stated in a document	3 sources
Development Support	1999	Stated in a document	2 sources
REDSO/ESA	2001 to 2003	Stated in a document	2 sources
Guatemala	2002	Stated in a document	1 source
Nicaragua	1997	Stated in a document	1 source
Uganda	1998	Stated in a document	1 source
Vietnam	years not recorded	Stated in a document	1 source
WEST AFRICA REGIONAL	2001	Stated in a document	1 source

What this program was

Where it worked1

Places23

Timelineyears: award years, end from document years

Political context

Implementers11

Awards and funding sources42

Topic tags15

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Documents by lifecycle stage153years in documents

Evaluatorsassessed the program, never counted as implementers

Host-government counterpartsthe government body the program worked with