Positive Deviance Hearth Plus (PDH+) rehabilitates malnourished children with local foods, health services, and follow-up. This factsheet highlights World Vision's PDH+ programme in Zambia, with 2,803 children recovered since
World Vision Ethiopia is scaling up the Positive Deviance/Hearth Plus (PDH+) approach across 37 area programmes to combat child undernutrition. By integrating PDH+ into both development and humanitarian projects, the
World Vision implemented an innovative and holistic approach to tackling child malnutrition in Viet Nam’s highlands, where food insecurity and limited caregiver knowledge persist. By integrating the Positive Deviance/Hearth
The WVI Nepal Country Factsheet 2025 highlights World Vision International Nepal's impactful contributions to child well-being, community resilience, and sustainable development across 17 districts and all 7 provinces. This
Celebrating 30 Years of Transforming Lives in Rwanda
World Vision Rwanda marks 30 years of impacting lives and empowering communities through several interventions and a commitment to the well-being of every child. This
As part of the ENOUGH campaign, World Vision is focusing its advocacy strength on improving coverage of Essential Nutrition Actions through strong, resilient health systems that reach communities in the most vulnerable
As a part of the ENOUGH Global Campaign on hunger and malnutrition, World Vision is focusing its advocacy strength on improving coverage of Essential Nutrition Actions through strong, resilient health systems. In this Good
World Vision's Positive Deviance/Hearth Plus (PDH+) programme demonstrates that locally-available foods and coping strategies can be used to effectively address malnutrition. Malnutrition can be prevented and addressed
Vice Versa Global's Zero Hunger Special, Africa Can Feed Herself, looks at what is happening toward achieving a food-secure continent, the challenges faced and solutions found. "Harnessing Local Foods for Infant Nutrition"
A booklet of rehabilitation menus from 23 countries developed by World Vision staff and the communities they work in, using locally available, low-cost, nutrient-dense ingredients. The recipes include underutilised indigenous
This Training of Facilitators manual provides the framework and materials for an eight- to ten-day face-to-face course, or a six-week online course blended by a five-day face-to-face course. It covers all components of the
A compilation of more than 20 locally-contextualised, low-cost menus from various regions used in World Vision's Positive Deviance Hearth programming to rehabilitate undernourished children.
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Positive Deviance Hearth Plus (PDH+): An integrated community-based nutrition programme that leverages existing expertise and local foods and agriculture to support caregivers of undernourished children to ensure sustainable
PD/Hearth is a community-based approach with three interrelated goals:
Handouts for World Vision's Positive Deviance Hearth Training of Facilitators.
So, you need trainers for Positive Deviance Hearth (PD/H), and you need them to have good facilitation skills? This PD/Hearth Curriculum complements the CORE PD/Hearth
This training manual contains the information needed to conduct a five-day face-to-face training programme to equip PD/Hearth volunteers prior to starting the programme, with a sixth day of training to be held after the first
Job Aids to accompany the Positive Deviance Hearth Volunteer Training Manual. This training equips Positive Deviance Hearth volunteers to guide and support caregivers to rehabilitate their malnourished children and prevent
Handouts to accompany the Positive Deviance Hearth Volunteer Training Manual. This training will equip Positive Deviance Hearth volunteers to guide and support caregivers to rehabilitate their malnourished children and
Handouts to accompany Positive Deviance/Hearth Training of Master Trainers Manual
What is this approach?
Positive Deviance/Hearth (PD/Hearth) focuses on communities where 30% or more of young children are moderately and severely malnourished as measured by low weight-for-age (underweight). Beneficial
