Lauriane NYIRANEZA2025-09-222025-09-222018-04-16https://dspace.ughe.org/handle/123456789/1007Background: Appropriate Infant and Young Child Feeding (ICYF) practices among children aged 6 to 23 month contribute to preventing not only malnutrition but also to reducing mortality and morbidity rate in under five children due to infectious diseases as consequence of poor nutrition. Minimum Meal frequency is one of the key indicators of IYCF. Uptake of Minimum Meal Frequency is low in the Western Province of Rwanda and the factors associated are not known. Objective: The main purpose of this thesis project was to assess the factors associated with Minimum Meal Frequency in Western Province and propose recommendation(s) to inform decision and policy makers on policy reformulation aimed at improving appropriate MMF among children aged 6 to 23 month in Western Province. Methods: The study was a secondary data analysis of data from Demographic Health Survey (DHS) 2014-2015. The outcome variable was Minimum Meal Frequency (MMF). A total of 606 children of age between 6 to 23 month were included in the analysis. Bivariate and multivariate analyses were used to assess the factors associated with MMF. Result: Appropriate Minimum Meal frequency among children between the ages of 6 and 23 months was found to be low (37.6%) among children between ages of 6 to 23 month in Western Province in Rwanda. Children from richest families were more like to receive the appropriate MMF (OR: 2.47, 95% CI, 1.19-5.80), children whose mother’s educated were more likely to receive the appropriate MMF, (OR: 4.07, 95%CI, 0.83-19.9), Children whose fathers were educated were more likely to receive the appropriate MMF, (OR: 6.6,95% CI, 0.50-9.68), children who were currently breastfed were more likely to receive appropriate MMF (3.29, 95% CI, 1.11-9.72) and child who mother attended the ANC visits were more likely to receive appropriate MMF (9.29 95% CI, 1.04-82.75) were associated with appropriate Minimum meal Frequency in Western Province. Conclusion: Interventions targeting the poor families for improving their economic status, promoting the education for both men and women, strengthening the interventions to increase ANC visits may help to improve the uptake of appropriate MMF in Western Province. Key words: Minimum Meal frequency, Malnutrition, Infant and Young Child Feeding.enMealChildrenFeedingMalnutritionNutritionPublic healthRwandaPoor familytext::thesis