Table 2.

Participant group types and sample questions for the WVIS_plus_PEX focus group discussions in Senegal

		No. of groups	No. of participants
Mothers	How do you get to market? How do you choose your vendors? Do you buy daily? Store it? What foods should a pregnant woman eat/not eat? Babies? What does a healthy baby look like? Where are the children when you go to market? Who else cares for them? What do children play with? What things should children learn before they grow up? What kind of schools are available?	3	12
Fathers	What kind of food do we use often here? Have your eating habits changed in recent years? What things should children learn before they grow up? What kind of schools are available? From what age? What activities does the father does with the child Would they want to be assisted with eggs to add to their meals	1	4
Grandmothers	(Similar to Mothers) What are good foods for children? What do they cultivate there? Who takes care of the children? What prevents children from growing or having normal height?	1	4
Pre-school teachers	Do you have a classroom or teach outside? What materials do you have? How many children in each group? Do you teach all subjects together or specialised? What do they use to learn how to write? How do you handle the noise? Do you use story telling or role play for any purposes? Are some children difficult to manage? How do you identify stunted children, and do you teach them differently?	1	4
CHW	(Similar to Mothers)	2	8
Farmers	What crops do you grow? Would you wish to grow other things? Do you grow any crops that you didn’t used to grow? Do you employ anyone? Do you grow crops that involve the children? Where do you sell your produce? Do you have problems with insects? Do you store your produce? What is important in the education/training of your children? What do they need to succeed? What kind of teacher would you like to chose?	1	4
Market traders	Do you trade in markets, or stalls or shops? What about mobile selling, using bicycles or motorbikes? What kind of products do you sell? Where do you often get it from? Is the produce nutritious? Tell us about the women merchants	1	4
PAO	How to recognise a child who is malnourished? What are the impacts of malnourishment here? Are there govt programmes for malnourishment? What are the factors influencing malnutrition locally? What is the local perception of malnourished children? Are there any changing trends in food available, or food eaten?	1	4
Total		11	44