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Providing an ‘essential package’ for child survival: WFP and UNICEF in Ethiopia

Providing an ‘essential package’ for child survival: WFP and UNICEF in Ethiopia. WFP and UNICEF in Ethiopia. Deliberate, strategic partnership to address the underlying causes of child undernutrition, and ensure: Access to adequate food Care for mothers and children

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Providing an ‘essential package’ for child survival: WFP and UNICEF in Ethiopia

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  1. Providing an ‘essential package’ for child survival: WFP and UNICEF in Ethiopia

  2. WFP and UNICEF in Ethiopia • Deliberate, strategic partnership to address the underlying causes of child undernutrition, and ensure: • Access to adequate food • Care for mothers and children • Access to essential health services • Reorientation, refocusing of existing resources

  3. Enhanced Outreach Strategy for Child Survival • An ‘essential package’ of nutrition interventions: • Vitamin A supplementation • Measles vaccination • De-worming • Health, nutrition and HIV/AIDS education • Screening of under five children, pregnant and lactating women for malnutrition • Referral of malnourished children and women to Targeted Supplementary Food (TSF) programme

  4. Building on existing infrastructure • WFP and UNICEF are building on - and building - regional government capacity and infrastructure for health services and food assistance delivery • The additional effort is focused on child hunger and undernutrition • Programme will expand in line with local infrastructure capacity • Coverage: 326 of 326 most vulnerable districts for health services; 272 of 326 for TSF

  5. Key results of the EOS • 2005: 80% of children in defined ‘vulnerable’ districts have received part (Vitamin A) of the ‘essential package’ • 2006: Broader coverage: more districts for TSF, and fuller ‘package’ • 5000 Food Distribution Agents (community women) trained in food distribution & management and provision of nutrition education to date.

  6. Key challenges • Multi-sectoral coordination not smooth • Screening coverage, quality too low • Increasing, ensuring government ownership and budgeting • Effective institutionalisation of results-based management system for the EOS/TSF

  7. Vision for the Future: • EOS integrated into broader, planned government Health Extension outreach programme • EOS fully integrated into government budgets • TSF managed by Regional Disaster Prevention and Preparedness Agency and Food Distribution Agents timely and effectively and with linkages to other food security and nutrition programmes • Expand FDA capacity: • 1000 more women to be trained • Qualified to give a broader range of nutrition education • From emergency to community-based approach to end child hunger and undernutrition: increase government and community capacity to provide needed food assistance

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