Table 5.

Programmatic recommendations to minimize negative outcomes in future BFCI programs

Stakeholder	Outcome	Recommendations
Mothers	Outcome 1.1: Increased expenditure on nutritious food and/or health care	Provide social protection measures or empowerment for food and healthcare.
	Outcome 1.2: More worried mother due to loss in baby weight and poor health	Provide targeted counselling around complementary feeding introduction.
	Outcome 1.9: Less income due to job loss	Provide small subsidy such as cash transfer or empowerment of women for baby friendly income generating activities. Advocate for maternity leave benefits.
Children	Outcome 2.2: Less healthy baby due to difficulty in introducing complementary feeding	Provide targeted counselling around complementary feeding introduction.
Healthcare providers	Outcome 6.2: Increased workload due to increased referrals and mothers seeking child checkups	Provide extra staff and support via Ministry of Health.
CHVs	Outcome 7.2: Increased stress due to the difficulties posed by the work	Provide support to vulnerable mothers and children via social protection measure or financial empowerment. Provide psycho social support to CHVs.
Data collectors	Outcome 8.4: Financial strain due to financial aid given to vulnerable mothers	Provide support to vulnerable mothers and children via social protection measure or financial empowerment. Provide psycho social support to data collectors.
Day care centers	Outcome 9.1: Increased stress due to increased enrollment without increased financial gains	Provide small subsidy for food and hygiene or microfinance services.
	Outcome 9.2: Increased in expenditure due to improved hygiene and nutritious food provided	Provide small subsidy for food and hygiene or microfinance services.