Behavior communuication: nutrition key message booklet for extension service providers

The authors acknowledge financial support from International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) through Bioversity International. We also thank the Nutrition Division of the Ministry of Health in Uganda for their contribution and review of the documents. Authors also acknowledge the use of illustrations from extension material developed under the USAID community connector project (Integrated nutrition and agriculture project 2014), the SWICHI project (Strengthened National capacity to scale up and improve maternal and child nutrition interventions 2016 ) and Ministry of Health, Uganda.The message booklet was developed based on the expected outputs of the Household mentorship concept. This concept is used to synchronize the different intervention areas. It consists of four themes; 1. Practices that improve nutrition and agriculture 2. Recommended feeding practices 3. Utilization of income for food and nutrition security.4. Food safety and hygiene Consequently under each of these themes there are desired practices and behaviors for the target audience to adopt following the dissemination of the highlighted key messages and doable actions. The facilitator should highlight the benefits accrued from adopting the key messages and the doable actions to the target audience to motivate them into action