Intervention
two‐thirds
The project was designed to deliver a comprehensive package of community‐level interventions that together would reduce child stunting. The CDD component of the project, In practice, communities spent more than two‐thirds of total 
These project‐funded interventions were only available in treatment subdistricts, but exposure varied across villages. In provider surveys, 70% of subdistrict health centre‐level midwife coordinators and nutritionists in treatment areas reported having been trained in IYCF during the project, compared to 35% and 43% in control areas who received business‐as‐usual IYCF training. At the village level, 60% of health post volunteers and midwives in treatment areas reported that they had received IYCF training, compared to 30% in control areas. 35% of subdistrict health centre‐level midwife coordinators and 58% of nutritionists in treatment areas reported having been trained in growth monitoring during the project, compared to 18% and 44% in control areas, respectively. For both types of training, project‐funded training tended to be longer, covered more topics and used more innovative teaching approaches than business‐as‐usual training. 57% of mothers in treatment areas who consumed IFA tablets at endline received the IFA brand supported by the project, compared to 12% in control areas.The second group of interventions sought to improve sanitation in the communities where All activities were to be synchronized to have the maximum impact by affecting children for the full 1000‐day period from conception through age 23 months. However, this synchronicity was a challenge for project implementation. Project implementation and data collection timeline. IFA, iron and folic acid; IYCF, infant and young child feeding.