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Project ID: | 00067240 | Description: | MDGF-2005-I-COL Children Nutri |
Fund: | Start Date *: | 31 Mar 2009 | |
Theme: | MDGF SP-ChildFoodSec&Nutri |
End Date*: | 31 Mar 2013 |
Country: | Colombia | Project Status: | Financially Closed |
Participating Organization: | Multiple |
About
Overview:The program aimed to improve food security, nutrition and WATSAN (water and sanitation) amongst selected indigenous and Afro-Colombian communities in the Department of Chocó. It sought to do this through comprehensive activities aimed at children under five years of age, with special emphasis on children under two years, including work with pregnant and breastfeeding women. Specifically it targeted rural populations and was implemented in 9 municipalities, mainly Carmen de Atrato, Itsmina, Litoral del San Juan, Nóvita, Quibdó, Rio Quito, Sipí, Medio San Juan y Tadó. The programme was fully aligned with the strategic objectives pursued at national level. The JP had three main strategies or effects: Outcome 1) the promotion of integrated models for better health, food security, nutrition and early education on WATSAN; Outcome 2) the recovery and promotion of culturally and ethnically sensitive agro-alimentary practices and; Outcome 3) the strengthening of local and regional organizations to ensure sustainability of these actions. As such, it was able to have a positive impact in several nutrition related indicators such as decreased prevalence of low weight and low weight for height in children under 5 years; decreased prevalence of underweight and overweight pregnant women; decreased prevalence of acute diarrheal and decreased anemia in children under six years, amongst others. It also achieved its goal of instituting better community led practices to increase food security and WATSAN, such as by increasing the number of households treating water before consumption and making adequate waste disposal. Another result highlighted was the JP’s contribution to strengthening and empowering women in the target communities as bearers of knowledge essential for the preservation of life, growth and development for the children their communities. Although the full impact of its actions is expected to be visible only in the long term, the programme’s main achievement is having validated a gender and ethnic sensitive model to promote food security, nutrition and WATSAN which is able to reduce extreme poverty, hunger, malnutrition rates, infant mortality and morbidity. In addition, lessons learned and potential for replication were identified.
Outcome 1:The program sought to implement integrated models for better health, food security, nutrition and early education, aimed at children up to 5 years, with emphasis on pregnant women, nursing mothers, and children under two years of age.
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Outcome 2:Agro-alimentary knowledge and practices were recovered and strengthened, and income generation improved, as well as promoting new practices adapted through an ethno-cultural, gender and community lens, with emphasis on households with children up to 5 years, pregnant women and nursing mothers.
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Outcome 3:Local and regional authorities, civil society, traditional organizations, indigenous and Colombian communities institutionally strengthened to participate in the design, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of plans, policies and programs for food security and nutrition for children in indigenous and Afro-Colombian communities.
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