Nicaragua: “TUKTAN YAMNI” Integrated Model
JOINT PROGRAMME QUICK FACTS
Total Budget $5,000,000
Delivery Rate
Main Achievements
- Delivery of agricultural packages (including basic grains, plants from the Musaceae or banana family, tubers, vegetables, and poultry) to a total of 1,027 families.
- Strengthening of three MINSA healthcare centers, which will lead to improved healthcare services for families in 42 communities.
- Training of members of the School Meals Committee (CAE) and provision of school snacks to 100% of the target schools.
The programme will reduce chronic malnutrition in children under two in the areas of intervention, thus accelerating progress towards the achievement of MDG 1, by prioritizing pregnant and breastfeeding women, children under five and school children up to 12 and providing them with integrated food security and nutrition services.
All actions will be directed to targeted families, ensuring the Zero Hunger Programme integrated model is fully implemented , thereby helping coordinate its production and organization components with its , health/nutrition and education/nutrition components, centered in the communities. It will strengthen the capacity of families by increasing the availability of food and nutritionally improving their diets, even in the event of food crises or natural disasters; it will strengthen the capacity of institutions to implement the model in a coordinated way and raise the visibility of prioritizing child nutrition as a fundamental right and pillar of human development.