Several INGOs have carried out PD Nutrition programs in Mozambique over the past 3 years.
In this excellent evaluation of the Food for the Hungry PD program, Tom Davis and his team provides some of the insights into the special PD practices which have enabled poor families with well nourished children to achieve significantly superior nutritional outcomes for their children than do their neighbors with access to the same resources.
Some of the findings include:
1) 45% of mothers of PD children said that they usually or always completely emptied their breasts when breastfeeding their PD child
2) 67% of mothers of PD children vs. 32% of mothers of malnourished children took at least one month of iron supplements during the months that they were breastfeeding
3) 0% of PD children were ill with diarrhea during the past two weeks vs. 29% of malnourished children.
4) 0% of PD children were ill with an illness other than diarrhea, ARI, fever or malaria during the past two weeks vs. 29% of malnourished children.
5) 67% of mothers of PD children said that their child's drinking water was treated (by boiling, chlorination, filtration, or solar) vs. 36% of mothers of malnourished children.