Project profile — Scaling Up Nutrition and Immunizations - UNICEF

The expected intermediate outcomes for this project include: (i) achieving and maintaining high coverage of nutrition and immunization interventions delivered through Child Health Days and routine services; and (ii) increasing ownership of child survival activities in countries with strong national health systems.

Results achieved by the end of the project (December 2016) include: (1) communication plans were implemented in 13 countries to support the introduction of new vaccines, and in 46 countries for the introduction of inactivated polio vaccines (IPV) and the oral polio vaccine (OPV); (2) supported the transition from oral to inactive polio vaccines in the routine immunization systems of 74 out of 126 countries; (3) developed, piloted and implemented tools for end-to-end vaccine stock and temperature monitoring guidance (10 countries), and implemented effective vaccine management assessments, and developed improvement plans (19 countries); (4) supported Ebola response with the development of an overall strategy, the analysis of the development of the epidemic, and technical assistance, including the development of a plan for the revitalization of health systems; (5) completed a systematic review of the impact of interventions in nutrition, water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH), education, agriculture, and the built environment (the human-made space in which people live, work and recreate on a day-to-day basis) on child health; and (6) in 11 out of 13 countries, coverage of Vitamin A supplements and deworming (VASD) among children aged 6-50 months was greater than 80% at the end of project. Baseline supplementation coverage ranged from 54-100%.