Project profile — Institutional Support to Nutrition International’s Strategic Plan

• Africa, regional (50.00%)
• Asia, regional (50.00%)

• Basic Health: Basic nutrition (12240) (80.00%)
• Population Policies/Programmes And Reproductive Health: Reproductive health care (13020) (20.00%)

• Gender equality (significant 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 (principal objective)
• Youth Issues (principal 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)

The project aims to support Nutrition International , Canada's flagship nutrition organization, working in more than 60 countries worldwide to improve the survival, health, and well-being of vulnerable populations, especially women, newborns, children, and adolescent girls. This project seeks to reach 800 million vulnerable people, including 450 million women and girls, with nutrition interventions. It integrates gender throughout global and country strategies and subsequent project designs to increase their reach and boost women and girls’ the participation in project design and management. This project also supports Nutrition International’s leadership in finding and scaling solutions to malnutrition through coverage, use and influence while mainstreaming gender equality and women’s empowerment . Project activities include: (1) reaching vulnerable populations with core nutrition interventions to reduce child mortality, prevent anemia, stunting and low birth weight, and improve human capital; (2) promoting non-nutrition platforms, innovative finance and technology to amplify impact and reduce missed opportunities, working with gender-responsive partners; (3) strengthening international, national and local resources, evidence, policies and gender-sensitive programs for nutrition scale-up; and (4) supporting gender-responsive programming throughout all Nutrition International programs and business models to promote gender equality and women and girls’ empowerment. .

The expected outcomes of this project include: (1) enhanced use of gender-sensitive evidence by global, regional and national actors for policy development and decision making relevant to health and nutrition; (2) improved gender sensitive and responsive nutrition and health policies and programs at national and sub-national levels; and (3) improved quantity, quality, timeliness, and equity of the provision of gender-sensitive or responsive health and nutrition interventions, particularly for vulnerable people, including women, newborns, children and adolescent girls.

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