| Reporting Organization: | Children Believe |
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| Total Budget ($CAD): | $ 14,633,868 |
| Timeframe: | May 23, 2023 - March 31, 2031 |
| Status: | Implementation |
| Contact Information: |
Feleke Tadele [email protected] |
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| Ethiopia - $ 7,316,934.00 (50.00%) | |
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| Ghana - $ 7,316,934.00 (50.00%) | |
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| WASH (5.00 %) | |
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| Nutrition (85.00 %) | |
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| Health Systems, Training & Infrastructure (5.00 %) | |
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| Reproductive Health & Rights incl. Maternal Health (5.00 %) | |
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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.
| Gender and age: | Adolescent females Adult women Children, boys Children, girls |
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| Total Direct Population: | 385,856 |
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Return to topResults achieved as June 2024 include: (1) developed an environmental action plan for the project; (2) developed a conflict sensitivity analysis and implantation guideline for working in the Amhara Region of Ethiopia; (3) formed integrated nutrition teams in 108 communities in Ghana (61% women) and 32 in Ethiopia for outreach after training in improving nutrition for women, infants and young children; and (4) trained 1,033 women in Ethiopia in growing high nutrient foods. They also received seeds and gardening equipment.
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.
