IBRD Trust Funds - World Bank
$13,500,000.00 CAD
- Department
- Global Affairs Canada
- Program
- —
- Recipient country
- Malawi
- Fiscal year
- 2011-2012
- Agreement period
- March 29, 2012 – August 31, 2017
- Project status
- Closed
- Reference
- CA-3-A035263001
Published purpose
This project aims to help break the vicious cycle of malnutrition, anaemia, and stunting that impairs the physical and cognitive development of women and children in Malawi. The project contributes to a larger World Bank project supporting Malawi’s roll-out of the Scaling Up Nutrition (SUN) Movement. Focusing on the “1,000 days” window of opportunity, from the day of conception to the age of two years, the project supports Malawi’s national efforts to prevent anaemia in pregnant and lactating women (at 38% in 2010) and stunting among children under two years of age (at 47% in 2010). The project brings the SUN Movement to districts, communities and households, reaching 3.3 million women of reproductive age and 3.5 million children under five, including 1.4 million children under two. This project contributes to Canada’s Muskoka Initiative to support nutrition programming in Malawi, a SUN “early riser” country.
In plain English AI-generated
This project funds World Bank efforts in Malawi to reduce malnutrition, anaemia, and stunting among women and children, focusing on the first 1,000 days from conception to age two, and reaching millions of women and children.
Category: Foreign Aid Development Primarily funds activity outside Canada
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