| Reporting Organization: | ADRA Canada |
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| Total Budget ($CAD): | $ 26,008,214 |
| Timeframe: | February 8, 2016 - September 30, 2020 |
| Status: | Implementation |
| Contact Information: |
Analynn Bruce [email protected] |
| Cambodia - $ 7,282,299.92 (28.00%) | |
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| Myanmar - $ 6,762,135.64 (26.00%) | |
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| Philippines (the) - $ 4,941,560.66 (19.00%) | |
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| Rwanda - $ 4,681,478.52 (18.00%) | |
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| Canada - $ 2,340,739.26 (9.00%) | |
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| Health Systems, Training & Infrastructure (17 %) | |
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| Newborn & Child Health (17 %) | |
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| Nutrition (17 %) | |
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| Reproductive Health & Rights incl. Maternal Health (17 %) | |
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| Sexual Health & Rights (16 %) | |
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| Gender Equality (16 %) | |
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The EMBRACE project, also known as the Enhance Mother, Newborn, and Child Health in Remote Areas through Health Care and Community Engagement project, aims to reduce preventable stunting and maternal-child mortality in hard-to-reach and peripheral regions in Cambodia, Myanmar, Philippines and Rwanda. The EMBRACE project emphasizes:
• Improved access to essential health services
• Capacity building for frontline workers (health facility-based staff, community health workers/volunteers)
• Improved access to nutrition for mothers and under 5 children
• Creating supportive environments for women and under 5 children
This initiative is implemented through a consortium led by Adventist Development and Relief Agency Canada (ADRA), including the Sick Kids Centre for Community Mental Health Learning Institute and Youth Challenge International (YCI), with technical support from Salanga.
| Gender and age: | Adult women Adult men Adolescent females Adolescent males Children, girls Children, boys Under-5 children Newborns Older adults, women Older adults, men |
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| Descriptors: | Rural Persons with disabilities Other Returnees |
| Total Direct Population: | 102,088 |
| Total Indirect Population: | 361,959 |
| Awareness Campaign conducted | |
| Climate and gender sensitive kitchen gardening training conducted | |
| Clinics built or refurbished | |
| Competency based in-service training provided | |
| Digital-based Training in place | |
| Gender sensitive Positive Deviant Hearth Nutrition Education and Rehabilitation Program (NERP) conducted | |
| Gender-sensitive nutrition education training provided | |
| Government’s growth monitoring and management of acute malnutrition of U5 supported | |
| Report and a story-themed illustrated book on key EMBRACE project experiences published |
Improved utilization of gender-equitable and environment-sensitive essential health services by mothers, pregnant women, newborns and children under five (U5)
The Project’s expected intermediate outcomes are: (1) improved coverage and utilization of gender-equitable and environment-sensitive essential health services by mothers, pregnant women, newborns and children under five years of age; (2) increased gender-equitable consumption of nutritious foods and supplements by mothers, pregnant women and children under five years of age; and (3) increased awareness among Canadian women and men, including youth, of global maternal, newborn and child health and nutrition. Key project gender equality and SRHR issues that are being adressed through the project include: high maternal mortality ratio and insufficient access to SRHR services by women; misconceptions regarding health; low levels of women’s participation in household and public decision making and in the labour market; disparity between men and women’s role in their households, and lack of involvement of men in the care of children, gender based/family violence; mothers & children with disabilities, gender based violence and Adolescent sexual and reproductive health.
This project is expected to contribute directly to the improved health of approximately 102,088 people (of which 58% are women and girls), including approximately 33,000 children of vulnerable groups including ethnic minority groups and displaced persons returning to their homes. In addition, more than 361,959 people are expected to benefit indirectly from this project’s results
*Increased health seeking behaviour and improved access to quality health care
Percentage of women attended at least four times during pregnancy by any provider for reasons related to the pregnancy has increased from 45.8% during baseline to 57.6% by the end of Year 2, and provided access to sexual and reproductive health services and information, including modern methods of contraception to 1,931 women and girls,
Percentage of targeted women who are satisfied with the Emergency maternal, Neonatal and Child health services provided to themselves or their children during pregnancy, delivery and postpartum has increased from 74.8% during baseline to 95.5% by the end of Year 2
Percentage of newborns put to the breast within one hour of birth has increased from 79.2% during baseline to 82.3% by the end of year 2
12,368 girls and boys have been screened for malnutrition since the project started
3,033 girls and boys have been enrolled in Nutrition Education and Rehabilitation Programes (NERP) across the four participating countries
• Increased male participation in maternal, newborn and child health issues and nutrition
Percentage of men who are able to identify essential nutrition practices for children less than 6 months old has increased from 31.4% at baseline to 54.4% at the end of Year 2.
Percentage of men who are able to identify essential nutrition practices for pregnant mothers has increased from 9.1% at baseline to 21.9% J153at the end of Year 2.
• Positive effect of kitchen gardens and a strong adoption of permaculture principles
Percentage of targeted Women of Reproductive age group (WRA ) who consume vegetables from own kitchen garden at least 7 months in a year has increased from 9.7% at baseline to 26.9% by the end of year 2
Percentage of targeted WRAs who have access to a kitchen garden based on permaculture principles has increased from 29.7% at baseline to 43.7% by the end of year 2.
