Accelerating Nutrition Improvements in Sub-Saharan Africa – Scale-up


Reporting Organization:WHO - World Health Organization
Total Budget ($CAD):$ 10,200,000
Timeframe: March 29, 2012 - September 30, 2016
Status: Completion
Contact Information: Unspecified

Partner & Funder Profiles


Reporting Organization


WHO - World Health Organization

Participating Organizations


Funders (Total Budget Contribution)


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Location


Country - Total Budget Allocation


Uganda - $ 3,468,000.00 (34.00%)

Ethiopia - $ 3,366,000.00 (33.00%)

Tanzania, United Republic of - $ 3,366,000.00 (33.00%)

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Areas of Focus


Health - Total Budget Allocation


Nutrition (100 %)

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Description


The World Health Organization’s Accelerating Nutrition Improvements project aims to catalyze action to improve health and reduce deaths of the most disadvantaged women and children by scaling up nutrition interventions. The project is designed to strengthen country government’s ability to combat disease and mortality rates, associated with undernutrition of the most disadvantaged women and children. The Accelerating Nutrition Improvements project aims to scale-up direct evidence-based nutrition interventions in three high-burden countries in Sub-Saharan Africa that have joined the Scaling Up Nutrition movement.

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Target Population


Gender and age: Adult women Under-5 children Newborns
Descriptors: Urban Rural
Total Direct Population: Unspecified
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Outputs


Unspecified

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Results & Indicators


Expected Results


The expected intermediate outcomes for this project include: women and children in three Sub-Saharan African countries receive effective nutrition interventions; enhanced healthy nutrition practices for mothers and children; evidence-based nutrition intervention program guidance accessed by global health practitioners and applied to nutrition programming.

Achieved Results


Unspecified

Indicators


  • None Selected
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Associated Projects (If applicable)


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