Health & Nutrition

Health Systems

We strengthen community health systems through capacity building, provision of materials and supplies, and the supportive supervision of community health workers. We support and leverage civil society organizations to support health and nutrition action at community level. We enhance community case management and strengthen community monitoring and referral mechanisms.
We help reduce the burden of illness at the community level. We achieve this by promoting positive health, hygiene and nutrition behaviors and practices through behavior change communication and community engagement. We strengthen civil society partnerships to promote transparency and accountability for both governmental and non-governmental health and nutrition services and programmes.

Nutrition
We address undernutrition by fostering positive nutrition behaviors and practices. These include infant and young child feeding, reducing micronutrient deficiencies through food-based approaches and micronutrient supplementation. We achieve this through early identification, treatment and monitoring of stunted, wasted and low birth weight children.
We focus on reducing the likelihood of intergenerational transmission of undernutrition. We improve preconceptual health and the nutritional status of adolescent girls, strengthen the health system to better integrate nutrition into ante-natal and postnatal care, and ensure the care and treatment of small and sick babies.
We reduce the burden of overweight and obesity by improving access to and use of a diverse array of nutritious foods, encouraging a healthy lifestyle and fostering positive nutrition behaviors and practices.