Purpose 2: Improved nutritional status among children under 5 years, adolescent girls, and women of reproductive age.
About
We aim to help children under 5, adolescent girls, and women of child bearing age ( WCBA) to have better nutrition. We will do this by reaching all our target households with clean water and sanitation services and by teaching 48320 WCBA, 50000 men, 11981 elderly/ grandmothers women, and 111000 young people about health and nutrition.
We have two main ways to help children and women have better nutrition. The first way is to help them eat more nutritious foods. The second way is to help them use health services for mothers, babies, children, and water and sanitation. These ways are based on evidence, and they work well to lower malnutrition.
Key Interventions
- Nutrition, Health, and WASH behaviors change activities.
- SafPHHE – sanitation-latrine construction.
- Repair, rehabilitate boreholes, and install solar-powered piped water systems.
- Youth Clubs: adolescent boys and girls trained in health/nutrition interventions and life and leadership training.
Approaches
- Improving local diets through enriched cereal blends, smart foods processing and promoting nutritious underutilized crops, and production of bio-fortified crops.
- Layering of livelihoods activities in Care group intervention ie permaculture garden produce and poultry enterprises, diversified IGAs, VSLAs in a Care group intervention,
- Sustained provision of community nutrition, health, and WASH behavior change activities by local service providers -Lead Mother with support from VHWS, and ward-level Food and Nutrition Security governance structures.
- Ensuring that Lead Mothers (LMs) have sustained motivation capacity, resources, and linkages to support services through a variety of approaches identified through Community Visioning sessions and adapted or modified as necessary will ensure LMs can continue supporting Care Group activities beyond the life of the project.
- Strengthening and establishing ward-level FNSCs and ensuring their functionality will sustain community members’ motivation, capacity, and linkages to multi-sectoral actors in the GoZ, providing opportunities to demand/ access quality nutrition, health, and WASH services.
- Promote dialogue and accountability between health workers and the community using a participatory scorecard.
- Engagement of traditional and faith leaders to deconstruct negative social norms and create a positive environment for the adoption of nutrition health & WASH behaviors.