Mali: Improving Child Nutrition and Food Security in the most vulnerable municipalities in Mali

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Reduce Child Mortality

JOINT PROGRAMME QUICK FACTS

Total Budget $8,000,000
Delivery Rate
Participating Agencies WFP, UNICEF, WHO, UNDP, FAO
Main Achievements
  • First baseline survey on food security and nutrition in Bandiagara, and study on productivity diversification ompleted
  • 200 women trained in horticulture practices; 77 health workers trained on prevention and treatment of malnutrition.
  • Planting of school gardens and construction of drinking water access points begun.

The joint programme, Improving Child Nutrition and Food Security in the most vulnerable municipalities in Mali, applies an integrated approach to achieve four primary outcomes - enhanced food security, improved nutritional status of women and children through appropriate prevention and treatment, the inclusion of nutrition and food security aspects in relevant national and community based frameworks and enhanced national capacities for appropriate assessment and monitoring, including improved responsiveness to changes in levels of nutrition and food insecurity in targeted communities.

A participatory approach is used at both upstream and downstream levels in order to reduce child mortality rates by maximizing the economic and social benefits of improved nutrition and food security for women, children and their families. The relevant MDG being targeted are primarily MDGs 1 and 4. The agencies involved in the joint programme are UNICEF, WFP, WHO, FAO and UNDP.

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