Multisectoral Support to Nutrition Activities and Policies
| Reporting Organization: | IBRD Trust Funds - World Bank |
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| Total Budget ($CAD): | $ 13,500,000 |
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| Timeframe: |
March 29, 2012 - August 31, 2017 |
| Status: |
Completion |
| Contact Information: |
Unspecified |
Partner & Funder Profiles
Reporting Organization
IBRD Trust Funds - World Bank
Participating Organizations
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Government and Public Sector
Funders (Total Budget Contribution)
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Government and Public Sector
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Location
Country - Total Budget Allocation
| Malawi - $ 13,500,000.00 (100.00%) |
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Areas of Focus
Health - Total Budget Allocation
Other - Total Budget Allocation
| Law, Governance & Public Policy (20 %) |
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Description
This project aims to help break the vicious cycle of malnutrition, anaemia, and stunting that impairs the physical and cognitive development of women and children in Malawi. The project contributes to a larger World Bank project supporting Malawi’s roll-out of the Scaling Up Nutrition (SUN) Movement. Focusing on the “1,000 days” window of opportunity, from the day of conception to the age of two years, the project supports Malawi’s national efforts to prevent anaemia in pregnant and lactating women (at 38% in 2010) and stunting among children under two years of age (at 47% in 2010). The project brings the SUN Movement to districts, communities and households, reaching 3.3 million women of reproductive age and 3.5 million children under five, including 1.4 million children under two. This project contributes to Canada’s Muskoka Initiative to support nutrition programming in Malawi, a SUN “early riser” country.
Target Population
| Gender and age: |
Adult women
Under-5 children
Newborns
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| Descriptors: |
Urban
Rural
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| Total Direct Population: |
6,800,000 |
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Outputs
| 1 |
Baseline Assessment completed |
| 1 |
IEC material designed |
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| 1 |
Malawi Food and Nutrition Act drafted |
| 1 |
National Nutrition M&E System running |
| 1 |
New National Nutrition Policy drafted |
| 1 |
New National Nutrition Strategic Plan drafted |
| 147 |
District Executive Committee officials oriented |
| 1470 |
Backyard gardens established |
| 262 |
Community care groups established |
| 600 |
Front-line health and extension workers trained |
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Results & Indicators
Expected Results
The expected intermediate outcomes for this project include: strengthened stewardship, oversight, and coordination of gender-sensitive nutrition policy and programs at central, district and community level; improved access and utilization of prevention and treatment of malnutrition services in children and anaemia in pregnant and lactating women (including adolescent girls), focussing on the first 1,000 days from pregnancy to 2 year of age, in selected districts in Malawi.
Achieved Results
Results achieved as of March 2015 include: (1) a new National Nutrition Policy 2013-18 drafted; (2) a new National Nutrition Strategic Plan 2013-18 drafted; (3) Malawi’s first Food and Nutrition Act drafted; (4) a National Nutrition Monitoring and Evaluation System designed and being rolled out; (5) a comprehensive baseline survey of community-based nutrition indicators; (6) information, education and communication materials designed for nation-wide nutrition promotion campaigns targeting households with children under five; (7) 600 front-line health and extension workers trained to deliver nutrition interventions in 7 districts; (8) 262 community care groups established to receive nutrition promotion messages; (9) 147 District Executive Committee officials oriented on nutrition issues; (10) 79 District Nutrition Coordination Committee members in 7 districts trained on coordinating nutrition interventions; (11) 1,470 backyard gardens established; (12) 110,000 people reached with nutrition promotion messages or interventions through community care groups; (13) in seven districts, 28% of children under five properly treated for diarrhoea versus 22% in 2010, and 38% of children receiving minimum dietary diversity versus 29% in 2010.
These results are contributing to Malawi’s progressive roll-out of the global Scaling Up Nutrition (SUN) initiative which provides science-based guidance on proven, high-impact interventions designed to reduce under-nutrition and the prevalence of acute malnutrition, stunting, and anaemia among under five children and young women.
Indicators
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Associated Projects (If applicable)
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