Building Community Resilience to Climatic Shocks in Improving Food Security, Caring and WASH practices

Description

Operational support for the project that seeks to improve the nutritional status of key vulnerable groups (including pregnant and lactating mothers, adolescent mothers, people with disabilities and people living with HIV [PLWHIV]) who have additional nutrition requirement and barriers in accessing them. The project will address the underlying causes of malnutrition and target the entire community with increased food security, access to WASH and improved caring practices. The project will target, 11,640 people on the Copperbelt Province. The Copperbelt province has high prevalence of chronic under-nutrition, yet has a complete under-representation of nutrition support. The Copperbelt Province is one of only 3 provinces (of 10) that is not currently covered by major nutrition programmes targeting pregnant women and children. In the target areas, which mainly includes the rural districts of the Copperbelt, 36% of children under 5 have stunted growth; 14% are underweight; and 5% suffer wasting, pointing to acute malnutrition. Severe malnutrition case fatality rate per 1,000 admissions (1-5 years) stands at 174.7 or 17.47% (Copperbelt Provincial Medical Office, 2015).

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