By 2020, ASTUTE aims to reach more than 3 million mothers, caregivers and decision-makers through home visits, radio campaigns, mobile outreach, positive deviants, support groups, homestead food production and other interventions to change behaviors that affect child nutrition and development. It also will train at least 3,600 community health workers, health facility workers, and staff and volunteers from 50 civil society organizations, to provide leadership and interventions that create a cultural and behavioral shift in child feeding, hygiene, sanitation, and other behaviours associated with early childhood development, including physical and mental growth.

ASTUTE’s objectives include:

  1. Strengthening a multi-sectoral response to nutrition;
  2. Enhancing optimal care practices for maternal, infant and young child nutrition; water, sanitation and hygiene; and early childhood development; and
  3. Increasing the knowledge of pregnant women, caregivers, households and community decision makers.
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