Table 2.

Summary of monitoring and evaluation design, sampling size, and implementation timeframe.

	Routine Monitoring Data	Health Worker Monitoring Interviews	Health Workers in Depth Interviews	Caregivers Coverage Survey
Target	Health workers	Health workers	Health workers	Caregivers
Design	Monthly reporting by provinces to NIN	Face-to-face structured interviews	Semi-structured interviews	Cross-sectional survey Structured interviews
Key objective	Monitor MNP sales in all health centers involved in MNP supply and delivery to caregivers	Monitor execution of product delivery, storage, distribution, and availability of behavior change materials in compliance with the training guidelines	Identify MNP sales trends and any bottlenecks in distribution channel	Assess MNP coverage (effective coverage, message coverage, contact coverage, and partial coverage; see survey terminology) and product use and compliance among children 6–60 months of age
Sample size	All 337 health centers	64 health centers (19%), randomly selected	120 local health workers from province, district, and commune levels	962 caregivers with children from 6 to 60 months
Settings	Four provincial health centers, 20 district health centers, and 313 CHCs	Four provincial health centers, 20 district health centers, and 40 CHCs, randomly selected	Four provinces (Thai Nguyen, Hai Phong, Quang Nam, and Ca Mau), 8 districts, and 32 communes, randomly selected
Implementation time	June 2014 to December 2014	Mid-November to early December 2014	End of November to end of December 2014, after six months of MNP distribution