Project profile — Integrated Approach to Maternal, Newborn and Child Health (MNCH) in Rural Ethiopia

• Ethiopia (100.00%)

• Basic Health: Basic nutrition (12240) (80.00%)
• Basic drinking water supply:
Basic drinking water supply (14031) (10.00%)
Basic sanitation (14032) (10.00%)

• Gender equality (significant objective)
• Environmental sustainability (cross-cutting) (significant objective)
• 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 (not targeted)
• Disaster Risk Reduction(DRR) (not targeted)
• Disability (not targeted)
• Indigenous Issues (not targeted)
• Nutrition (principal objective)
• ICT as a tool for development (not targeted)

This project aims to improve the nutritional status of children under the age of five (350,000) and pregnant and lactating women (400,000) in Ethiopia by increasing access to quality nutrition services, nutritious food, and water and sanitation services (250,000 people and 25,000 households). Despite recent progress, malnutrition remains a serious problem in Ethiopia, and many children do not regularly have enough nutritious food to keep them healthy. Malnutrition contributes to about half of all deaths of children under five years old. Activities include: (1) core nutrition interventions (such as nutrition education, malnutrition detection, access to supplementary feeding); and (2) access to nutritious food, including nutrition-sensitive agricultural products (such as vegetables, fruits, milk) and water, hygiene and sanitation.

The expected intermediate outcomes for this project includes: (1) increased access and utilization of quality nutrition services, including nutrition knowledge of pregnant and lactating women and children under five; (2) increased access and utilization of nutritious food, including nutrition-sensitive agricultural productions, particularly for women and children; and (3) increased access to water and sanitation services, particularly for women and children.

Results achieved at the end of the project (December 2020) included: (1) provided health and nutrition interventions such as maternal, infant, and young child nutrition training, community-based management of acute malnutrition training, and nutrition education to 763,337 participants, of whom 449,102 pregnant and lactating women and caregivers; (2) conducted food security and livelihoods interventions covering various agricultural inputs including seeds, chickens, shoats, bee hives and colonies, and farm tools. As such, provided 57,108 households (48% women) with crop seeds, vegetables seeds and shoats; and (3) reached 110,780 community members (52% women) with water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) interventions. They also benefited from small and large-scale construction and rehabilitation of water schemes and water facilities. At the end, the project reached 671,791 direct beneficiaries. These results have improved the nutritional status of children and pregnant women by increasing access to quality nutrition services, nutritious food, and water and sanitation services.

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