The measured changes in the levels of infant and young child feeding
interventions included in this study led to a reduction in the number of cases of
chronic malnutrition in children under 6 months of age in the second scenario
projections. However, no cases of chronic malnutrition were prevented among
children in the 6–59 month age group under any of the six projections. On the
contrary, opportunities to save cases of chronic malnutrition have been missed.
These missed opportunities amount to 64,880 in scenario 1 and 39,556 in
scenario 2 at national level. Nevertheless, 920 lives were saved nationwide,
232 in the Center region and 202 in the Sahel region.
Conclusion: The study highlighted the need to strengthen the implementation
of IYCF interventions, coupled with a significant improvement in the quality of
NNS data collection, given the up and down nature of the indicators, which
makes them difficult to use for decision-making.

children 0–5 years old, chronic malnutrition, impact, infant, IYCE, LiST, nutritional survey, stunting