Recommendations for improved implementation
Model fathers requested additional training on facilitation skills and suggested that follow-up sessions at household level would provide the opportunity to observe men putting the messages learned into action and would highlight where more support is needed. CEHOs and model fathers suggested that future interventions should train community leaders at the outset to increase their support and collaboration by making them aware of the importance of the community-based meetings. Model fathers and CEHOs agreed that more model fathers, community volunteers, community health workers, and CEHOs should be trained, and more leaflets produced for wider implementation within the existing districts and for further scale-up. CEHOs also suggested that the megaphone blasts should include testimonies from mothers.