| Reporting Organization: | Aga Khan Foundation Canada |
|---|---|
| Total Budget ($CAD): | $ 4,500,000 |
| Timeframe: | January 1, 2024 - June 30, 2027 |
| Status: | Implementation |
| Contact Information: |
Saleem Naseri [email protected] |
| Afghanistan - $ 4,275,000.00 (95.00%) | |
| Canada - $ 225,000.00 (5.00%) | |
| Primary Health Care (100.00 %) | |
With GAC’s support, Aga Khan Foundation Canada helps provide lifesaving humanitarian health, nutrition, and psychosocial support in Afghanistan. Project activities include: (1) providing essential medicines and medical supplies; (2) conducting training sessions on maternal and newborn health; (3) providing nutrition services; and (4) conducting community information-sharing session to promote the utilization of these essential services.
| Gender and age: | Adolescent females Adolescent males Adult men Adult women Children, boys Children, girls |
|---|---|
| Descriptors: | Rural Urban |
| Total Direct Population: | 251,782 |
| 16 | Essential medicine and medical supplies procured for priority health facilities to enable provision of life-saving health, nutrition, and SRHR services in Daikundi, Parwan and Samangan provinces. |
| 126 | Front-line training and support provided to healthcare professionals in hard-to-reach communities and remote health facilities on life-saving maternal and newborn care, SRHR and Rational Use of Drugs (RUD) in crisis situations. |
| 11,422 | Life-saving community-based health and nutrition services provided through mobile outreach teams in Daikundi province, including SRHR, maternal and child health, and mental health and psychosocial support. |
| 412 | Emergency nutrition treatment provided to children with complicated severe acute malnutrition that could not be treated at the provincial level and have been referred to the FMIC hospital in Kabul. |
| 28 | SGBV referral services and community support structures strengthened to provide case finding, management, and referral support for survivors of SGBV. |
| 30 | Front line training and support provided to healthcare professionals in hard-to-reach communities and remote health facilities on SGBV minimum standards and mental health and psychosocial support services. |
| 5,696 | Information, Education, and Communication (IEC) materials promoting essential health and nutrition services printed and distributed to religious scholars and CHWs in crisis-affected communities. |
| 300 | Community information-sharing and awareness-raising sessions conducted with religious scholars to promote utilization of essential crisis services for health, SRHR, nutrition, SGBV, and/or mental health and psychosocial services. |
The expected outcomes of this project include: (1) increased access to lifesaving and gender-responsive humanitarian health and nutrition services; (2) increased access to emergency health and psychosocial services; and (3) enhanced capacity of communities to respond to emergencies and utilize available services.
The expected ultimate outcome is lives saved, suffering alleviated, and human dignity maintained in countries experiencing humanitarian crises or acute food insecurity.
