Peru: Improving Nutrition and Food Security for the Peruvian Child: a Capacity Building Approach
JOINT PROGRAMME QUICK FACTS
Total Budget $6,000,000
Delivery Rate
Main Achievements
- Annual Report by the Integrated Committee to Fight Poverty.
- 100 officials from four regions received training.
- Development of a task force for chronic malnutrition.
Its purpose is to accelerate the implementation of the National Strategy “CRECER”, aimed at reducing child under nutrition through coordinated action. It seeks to promote and implement interventions at regional and local level to improve mothers’ and children’s nutrition, through strengthened programmes and initiatives from different sectors.
To achieve this, management, technical and analytical capacities of the actors involved in the implementation of “CRECER” will be strengthened at national, regional and local level. Evidence-based interventions to improve child nutrition and integrated maternal and child care practices will be promoted at household and community level. The Joint Programme adopts an integrated approach, which is vital to address the multiple determinants of child under nutrition. It contributes to the achievement of five MDGs in 80 districts from 4 regions, which are included in priority areas where the participant UN agencies have previous work experience.