THE UNITED NATIONS WORLD FOOD

Published purpose

This project represents CIDA's contribution to the Renewed Efforts Against Child Hunger (REACH) initiative. This initiative works to build government and national capacity to effectively scale-up nutrition interventions in order to improve health and reduce mortality in mothers and children. The coordinated REACH approach ensures more effective and coherent food and nutrition assistance by supporting integrated interventions to link child undernutrition, food security, health and care in a sustainable package. REACH is a coordinating mechanism of four UN organizations working in the field of nutrition, namely, World Food Programme (WFP), the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), the World Health Organization (WHO), and the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). This project is part of Canada's Maternal, Newborn and Child Health commitment. The expected intermediate outcomes for this project include: women and children in three Sub-Saharan African countries receive effective nutrition interventions; enhanced healthy nutrition practices for mothers and children; evidence-based nutrition intervention program guidance accessed by global health practitioners and applied to nutrition programming.