Project profile — Integrated Nutrition and Gender Project in Senegal (PINGS)

• Senegal (100.00%)

• Basic Health: Basic nutrition (12240) (25.00%)
• Population policy and administrative management:
Population policy and administrative management (13010) (25.00%)
Family planning (13030) (20.00%)
• Women's rights organisations and movements, and government institutions:
Women's rights organisations and movements, and government institutions (15170) (20.00%)
Ending violence against women and girls (15180) (10.00%)

• Gender equality (principal objective)
• Environmental sustainability (cross-cutting) (not targeted)
• Participatory development and good governance (not targeted)
• Trade development (not targeted)
• Biodiversity (not targeted)
• Climate change mitigation (not targeted)
• Climate Change Adaptation (not targeted)
• Urban issues (not targeted)
• Desertification (not targeted)
• Children's issues (significant objective)
• Youth Issues (significant objective)
• Disaster Risk Reduction(DRR) (not targeted)
• Indigenous Issues (not targeted)
• Disability (not targeted)
• Nutrition (principal objective)
• ICT as a tool for development (not targeted)

This project seeks to positively transform gender relations to improve the health of women and adolescent girls in Senegal, particularly their nutrition and reproductive health (RH). The project targets 200,000 pregnant/nursing women and 600,000 adolescent girls in the 5 regions most affected by gender inequalities and malnutrition, and worsened by the impact of the pandemic: Kaffrine, Kédougou, Kolda, Sédhiou and Tambacounda. Project activities include : (1) offering professional development in the field of women’s nutrition; (2) developing a strategy to attract women and adolescent girls and build their capacity in positions of leadership, collective action and advocacy on health matters (nutrition and RH); (3) conducting communication and awareness raising activities to help women and girls better understand their rights and needs when it comes to nutrition, RH and gender equality; (4) providing entrepreneurship training to build women’s capacity to manage and ensure the sustainability of micro-, small and medium enterprises that promote nutrition; (5) providing technical assistance to institutionalize gender equality in 12 ministries that contribute to people’s good nutritional status, with the goal of improving service quality; and (6) supporting communities to ensure influential people are engaged in promoting the equitable sharing of power and responsibilities between women and men with regard to health (nutrition and RH).

The expected outcomes for this project include: (1) women and adolescent girls are empowered to exercise their rights and improve their health (nutrition and RH) and the health of those around them, in the context of the coronavirus (COVID 19) pandemic; (2) gender equality is institutionalized in the multisector approach of the target ministries, in order to improve the quality of integrated nutrition services for women and adolescent girls; and (3) the practices of key actors, particularly communities, are improved to ensure better gender equality and equitable access to health (nutrition and RH) for women and adolescent girls.

Results achieved as of March 2024 include: (1) the project trained 221 women from 43 economic interest groups in financial education and entrepreneurship; (2) trained 3 women's rights organizations (95 women and 17 men in the regions of Kaffrine, Kolda and Kédougou) on advocacy, nutrition, reproductive health as well as the interdependence between these themes; (3) created 16 new husband's schools positive masculinity in Kolda and Sédhiou and collaborated with 20 existing husband's schools on positive masculinity in Kédougou and Tambacounda. Members then conducted 148 awareness-raising sessions on positive masculinity in their communities. These sessions reached 12,357 men and teenagers in Kédougou, Kolda, Sédhiou and Tambacounda. The project also carried out separate awareness-raising activities in Kaffrine (a region that does not yet have husband's schools) and reached 189 boys and men in this region; (4) trained 9 religious leaders (1 woman and 8 men) and conducted 9 awareness-raising sessions among their peers on equitable practices in reproductive health and nutrition, equitable division of labour and shared decision-making; and (5) sensitized 2,436 grandmothers on positive practices in nutrition, reproductive health, shared decision-making in households, and equitable division of labour.

• Proactive disclosure
• Related activities: Integrated project in nutrition and gender in Senegal - Monitoring