Enabling Healthy Diets for the Prevention of Child Wasting in Contexts of Protracted Crises, Conflict and/or Humanitarian
| Project's full title | Enabling Healthy Diets for the Prevention of Child Wasting in Contexts of Protracted Crises, Conflict and/or Humanitarian |
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| Introduction | This proposal focuses on the role of FAO in supporting producer households with a resilience package to enable healthy diets for individuals with greatest vulnerability. While knowledge mobilization targets all 15 countries, the proof-of-concept will cover two countries with the aim of defining the most feasible model for upscaling and replication. |
| Country | Madagascar Nigeria |
| Start date | 01/03/2024 |
| End date | 30/11/2025 |
| Status | Ongoing |
| Recipient / Target Areas | Madagascar, Nigeria |
| Budget | USD 1 000 000 |
| Project Code | FVC/GLO/217/MUL |
| Objective / Goal |
As part of the Global Action Plan on Child Wasting (GAP) implemented together with UNHCR, UNICEF, WFP and WHO, the Food and Nutrition Division and the Office of Emergency and Resilience developed a child wasting prevention action plan (USD 500M over 2023–2024) that targets 15 most-affected countries by focusing on enabling healthy diets for young children, adolescent girls and pregnant-lactating women. Building on the analytical work led by FAO through initiatives such as the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) with the added Acute Malnutrition component, the Food Insecurity Experience Scale (FIES) measurement at household or individual level and ongoing efforts on the global individual food consumption data, this proposal will demonstrate how data on determinants of child acute malnutrition can be used to inform joint-targeting and co-location of interventions in food, social protection, WASH and health systems, and enhance the potential of these actions to prevent child malnutrition. Within the UN (United Nations) multi-system response, this proposal focuses on the role of FAO in supporting producer households with a resilience package to enable healthy diets for individuals with greatest vulnerability. While knowledge mobilization targets all 15 countries, the proof-of-concept will cover two countries with the aim of defining the most feasible model for upscaling and replication. This will inform ongoing program design and related fund-raising activities and increase their impact potential. |