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

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

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

• Youth Issues (principal objective)
• Nutrition (principal objective)
• Children's issues (principal objective)
• Gender equality (significant objective)

This 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. The 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.

Results achieved at the end of the project (March 2025) include: (1) improved survival, health and wellbeing of children and mothers with 335 million children who received vitamin A, 7 million diarrhoea cases treated with zinc and Low-Osmolarity Oral Hydration Salts (LO-ORS). Also, 12.6 million pregnant women received iron-folic acid, 4.3 million newborns reached with postnatal care, and 6.6 million adolescent girls who consumed weekly iron-folic acid supplements, averting 2.1 million anaemia cases; (2) reached 913 million beneficiaries with 379 million accessing fortified foods and 576 million who consumed iodized salt; (3) saved 1.2 million children’s lives, including 776,000 deaths averted via vitamin A, 18,000 newborn deaths prevented, and 3,000 deaths averted through diarrhoea treatment; (4) 3.2 million stunting cases averted through vitamin A and maternal nutrition interventions; (5) averted 60 million anaemia cases, including 33.5 million cases averted via fortified foods, 2.1 million among adolescent girls, and 284,000 during pregnancy; (6) trained 1.6 million individuals; (7) led global policy shifts; and (8) advanced gender equality through 3,015 community groups and 10 gender analyses.

• Proactive disclosure
• Related activities:
• Institutional support to Nutrition International’s Strategic Plan
• Summative Evaluation of Nutrition International - 2014 to 2023