World Vision Canada

Published purpose

2022 - Much of the world is presently facing a food crisis, compounded by conflict, climate change, and the residual effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. FAO’s global food price index reached another record high in March 2022, increasing by 34% over the same time last year. Entrenched conflict and the cumulative impact of climate changes (back-to-back natural disasters, major droughts, locusts, multi-year, landscape-changing floods, etc.) combined to increase global acute food insecurity by 84%, from 150 million people in 2019 to 276 million in 2022. Prior to the Ukraine crisis, a global group of nutrition experts estimated that 13.6 million more children would suffer from wasting by 2022, a 30% increase over three years. With GAC’s support, this project works to increase access to curative and preventive quality emergency health and nutrition services to prevent, identify and treat acutely malnourished children under 5 years and pregnant and lactating women while mitigating poor health outcomes. Project activities include: (1) providing quality outpatient therapeutic feeding programs to treat and manage Severe Acute Malnutrition in children under 5 and pregnant and lactating women, including malnourished other cases; (2) equipping Primary Health Care Centres and Primary Health Workers to delivery Community based Management of Acute Malnutrition services; (3) establishing community nutrition screening, community mobilization and referral systems; and (4) establishing community-based protection mechanisms for women, girls and boys at risk of sexual and gender based violence.