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INCS

A guide to available literature on maternal and infant nutritional status, beliefs, and practices in Lesotho is presented in this report. DEC abstract (PN-AAL-281)

Name source: not recorded for this programScope: globalKind: program

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Review evidence

120 facts shown; 5 unconfirmed links; 0 support mechanisms (not programs); 103 documents cite this program.

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

USAID and INCS first approached CRS about this type of project in July 1982.1 INCS produced a consultant report for Zaire covering February 23 to March 17, 1981.2

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

Operated in: Indonesia, Latin America, Ecuador, Pakistan, Thailand, Cameroon, Dominican Republic, Mexico, Kenya, Sudan, Guatemala, Nigeria, Gambia, Swaziland, Peru, Jamaica, Africa South of Sahara, El Salvador, Tunisia, Haiti, Nepal, Philippines, Liberia, Bolivia, Bangladesh, Burkina Faso, Sri Lanka, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ghana, Lesotho.

Years: 1980 to 1992 years in documents
Implementer: Education Development Center, Inc. (EDC) International Nutrition Communication Service; Education Development Center, Inc. (EDC); Manoff International, Inc.; and 17 more 41 sources
Funder or award: USAID. Bur. for Science and Technology. Ofc. of Nutrition; AID/DSAN-C-0209; DAN-1010-G-5118
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: region or province; squares are facilities.

Region or province · 1 mention · 1989

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: years in documents. The start year comes from design document 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
Education Development Center, Inc. (EDC) International Nutrition Communication Service	implementer	1980 to 1986	Stated in a document	41 sources
Education Development Center, Inc. (EDC)	implementer	1980 to 1987	Stated in a document

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
AID/DSAN-C-0209 (contract, fiscal year not recorded)	1980 to 1987	Stated in a document	56 sources
DAN-1010-G-5118 (grant, fiscal year not recorded)	1990 to 1991	Stated in a document	9 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

Studies that assessed this program, and the lessons taken from them. Source: linked evaluation documents

Evaluation studies and evaluation-stage documents, by title and year. Findings not extracted yet.
Title	Year	Document	Why listed
International Nutrition Communication Service (INCS) consultant report for Zaire (February 23-March 17, 1981) : evaluation of the mass media component of AID's Nutrition Planning Project in Zaire	1981	PD-AAY-118	linked as an evaluation of this program
Zaire, 28 October - 15 November 1985 : CEPLANUT food/nutrition and agriculture education project evaluation	1985	PD-AAS-204	evaluation-stage document (eval other, weak classifier)
Thailand, March 29-April 6, 195 : assessment of Bangkok breastfeeding promotion project after fifteen months collaboration	1985	PN-AAS-675	evaluation-stage document (eval other, weak classifier)

Not recorded yet: support mechanisms, money rows. 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
Ecuador. Ministry of Public Health. Program of Qualitative Research in Infant Nutrition	lead ministry	1988	Likely, not confirmed	3 sources
Ecuador. Ministry of Public Health	lead ministry	1987	Likely, not confirmed	1 source
Ecuador. Ministry of Health. National Div. for Promotion and Protection	lead ministry	1992	Likely, not confirmed	1 source
Kenya. Ministry of Health	lead ministry	1983	Likely, not confirmed	1 source
Swaziland National Nutrition Council	implementing agency	1992	Likely, not confirmed	1 source

INCS

Evaluatorsassessed the program, never counted as implementers

Host-government counterpartsthe government body the program worked with

Name	Role	Years	Basis	Evidence
Manoff Group, Inc.	implementer	1992	Stated in a document	3 sources
University of Ghana. Dept. of Community Medicine	implementer	1982	Stated in a document	3 sources
Development Associates, Inc.	implementer	1984 to 1988	Stated in a document	2 sources
Centre for Development and Population Activities (CEDPA)	implementer	1983 to 1989	Stated in a document	2 sources
Academy for Educational Development, Inc. (AED)	implementer	1989	Stated in a document	1 source
Population Council	implementer	1986	Stated in a document	1 source
U.S. Dept. of Agriculture. Ofc. of International Cooperation and Development	implementer	1984	Stated in a document	1 source
Johns Hopkins University	implementer	1989	Stated in a document	1 source
London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM). Evaluation and Planning Centre for Health Care	implementer	1989	Stated in a document	1 source
Centre for Ethnic Studies	implementer	1989	Stated in a document	1 source
Center to Prevent Childhood Malnutrition	implementer	1989	Stated in a document	1 source
Purdue University. Biochemistry Magnetic Resonance Laboratory	implementer	1982	Stated in a document	1 source

Name	Years	Basis	Evidence
USAID. Bur. for Science and Technology. Ofc. of Nutrition	1980 to 1991	Stated in a document	90 sources
U.S. Dept. of Agriculture. Ofc. of International Cooperation and Development. Nutrition and Agribusiness Group	1982 to 1983	Stated in a document	6 sources
U.S. Peace Corps. Information Collection and Exchange (ICE)	1989	Stated in a document	1 source
United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF)	1981	Stated in a document	1 source

Name	Years	Basis	Evidence
Ecuador	1985 to 1988	Stated in a document	6 sources
Thailand	1981 to 1985	Stated in a document	5 sources
Cameroon	1980 to 1983	Stated in a document	4 sources
Indonesia	1981 to 1985	Stated in a document	4 sources
Dominican Republic	1984 to 1986	Stated in a document	3 sources
Sudan	1982 to 1984	Stated in a document	3 sources
Jamaica	1984 to 1986	Stated in a document	3 sources
Bangladesh	1983 to 1985	Stated in a document	2 sources
Bolivia	1983 to 1987	Stated in a document	2 sources
Burkina Faso	1982 to 1983	Stated in a document	2 sources
Gambia	1985 to 1986	Stated in a document	2 sources
Haiti	1982 to 1985	Stated in a document	2 sources
Kenya	1983 to 1985	Stated in a document	2 sources
Mexico	1991	Stated in a document	2 sources
Sri Lanka	1982 to 1989	Stated in a document	2 sources
Tunisia	1982 to 1984	Stated in a document	2 sources
Congo DR	1981 to 1985	Stated in a document	2 sources
Peru	1982 to 1989	Stated in a document	2 sources
Benin	1989	Stated in a document	1 source
Egypt	1980	Stated in a document	1 source
El Salvador	1980	Stated in a document	1 source
Ghana	1982	Stated in a document	1 source
Guatemala	1986	Stated in a document	1 source
Honduras	1984	Stated in a document	1 source
Lesotho	1981	Stated in a document	1 source
Mali	1983	Stated in a document	1 source
Morocco	1982	Stated in a document	1 source
Nepal	1981	Stated in a document	1 source
Nigeria	1982	Stated in a document	1 source
Pakistan	1982	Stated in a document	1 source
Philippines	1983	Stated in a document	1 source
Rwanda	1983	Stated in a document	1 source
Swaziland	1989	Stated in a document	1 source
Congo PR [formerly Congo]	1980	Stated in a document	1 source

What this program was

Where it worked1

Places30

Timelineyears: years in documents

Political context

Implementers20

Awards and funding sources50

Topic tags15

Similar programs

Evaluations and lessons6

Documents by lifecycle stage103years in documents

Evaluatorsassessed the program, never counted as implementers

Host-government counterpartsthe government body the program worked with