The Power of Nutrition

Achieving Maternal and Child Nutrition Results in Ethiopia

Project disclaimer

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Description

This $40m investment for nutrition, made up of $20m from The Power of Nutrition and co-financed with $20m of IDA, is scaling up and institutionalising high-impact, evidence-based nutrition interventions nationwide in support of the Government of Ethiopia's National Nutrition Programme II. The $40m for nutrition is a part of a larger $190m maternal and child health programme. This investment is using a payment for results model to incentivise health system performance in maternal and child health and nutrition, disbursing funds only when pre-defined objectives around vitamin A supplementation, IFA supplementation and growth monitoring & promotion are met. This incentivisation model is complemented with direct support for critical technical assistance and capacity building activities to support cross governmental coordination for nutrition, improved data systems for nutrition and for evaluations.

Objectives

Increase proportion of pregnant women taking 90+ tablets of IFA from 5% to 13% Increase coverage of vitamin A supplementation for children 6 - 59 months old from 45% in 2017 to 53% in 2021 Increase proportion of woredas in non-emerging regions delivering VAS through routine health systems from 48% to 80% Increase proportion of children 0 - 23 months old participating in growth monitoring and promotion from 27% to 51% Increase proportion of woredas in emerging regions transitioning from extended outreach services to community health days from 0% to 50%

Target Groups

Children under-5 Women of reproductive age

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Location

The country, countries or regions that benefit from this Programme.

Ethiopia

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