Formative research carried out in Serer villages in western Senegal revealed that grandmothers play a very influential role in all maternal and child health matters. Based on these findings, CCF developed an action research nutrition education project to encourage grandmothers to promote improved nutritional practices related to pregnancy (e.g. decreased work and improved diet) and infant feeding (e.g. breastfeeding and complementary feeding) among women of reproductive age. Data collected to both document and evaluate the intervention suggest that there were significant changes in the nutritional knowledge of grandmothers, in their advice to women of reproductive age, and in the nutrition-related practices of these younger women associated with pregnancy and infant feeding.

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