Project profile — Championing Nutrition and Gender Equality (CHANGE)

• Ethiopia (50.00%)
• Ghana (50.00%)

• Basic health care:
Basic health care (12220) (5.00%)
Basic nutrition (12240) (85.00%)
• Population Policies/Programmes And Reproductive Health: Population policy and administrative management (13010) (5.00%)
• Water And Sanitation: Basic drinking water supply (14031) (5.00%)

• Youth Issues (significant objective)
• Children's issues (significant objective)
• Nutrition (principal objective)
• Participatory development and good governance (significant objective)
• Gender equality (principal objective)

The project aims to improve nutrition for the poorest and most marginalized, especially women, adolescent girls, and children to reach 142,347 people (54% female) in Ghana and 243,509 people (60% female) in Ethiopia. Project activities include: (1) training and growing of high nutrient vegetables, legumes and indigenous species of fruit-bearing trees by community members, especially women; (2) WASH infrastructure for sanitation and hygiene and water for household nutrition gardens (3) village savings and loans and community led integrated nutrition teams, especially with women, in procuring and/or constructing appropriate processing and storage solutions; (4) training of health services providers on strategies for gender-responsive integrated nutrition-health delivery; and (5) district level inter-sectoral nutrition forum/meetings facilitated for information sharing, collective capacity building, and informing policy/decision-making.

The expected outcomes of this project include: (1) improved women's leadership and control over resources for community and individual gender-equitable nutrition practices; (2) strengthened gender-equitable integrated nutrition and health services for the poorest and most marginalized, especially women, adolescent girls, and children; and (3) improved effectiveness of key stakeholders to provide gender-responsive community-based nutrition-specific activities for women, adolescent girls, and children locally.

Results achieved as of March 2025 include: (1) provided 336 health service providers with resources to integrate nutrition in clinic-based sexual and reproductive health and rights and maternal, newborn and child health; (2) provided 66 new resources on nutrition related to sexual and reproductive health rights and maternal, newborn and child health services; and (3) delivered integrated nutrition services, including training on basic nutrition concepts and influencing local policy and planning frameworks, to 161 communities.

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