Project profile — Improved Food Security for Mothers and Children

Results achieved by UNICEF with the support of the Government of Canada in 2015-2016 include: (1) 10, 659,332 children received vitamin A supplements; (2) 1,659,470 children received treatment for severe acute malnutrition, with a full recovery rate of 90.8% (up from 87% in 2014-2015) and 0,1% mortality (down from 0.3% in 2014-2015); (3) 1,921,304 pregnant women received Iron Folic-Acid, representing 70% coverage; (4) 6,236,275 school-age children and adolescents received de-worming treatments; (5) training of 315 health workers on community based maternal and neonatal health, and 6,282 agriculture development agents on nutrition-agriculture linkages; and (6) 153 women's groups started to process and distribute complementary food benefiting 46,311 children. (7) 247 health facilities which already had access to water were provided with latrine facilities, benefiting 1,295,000 people; (8) 52,437 people benefited from the construction of 77 water systems; (9) more than 396,596 households constructed their own latrines; and (10) 6,579 villages were declared open defecation free and are practicing hand-washing at critical stages. These results have contributed to improving the health status of women and children in targeted areas by increased access to health services, clean water and sanitation.