CHILDREN BELIEVE FUND

Published purpose

This project aims to improve nutrition for the poorest and most marginalized, especially women, adolescent girls, and children to reach 142,347 people (54% female) in Ghana and 243,509 people (60% female) in Ethiopia. Project activities include: (1) training and growing of high nutrient vegetables, legumes and indigenous species of fruit-bearing trees by community members, especially women; (2) setting up WASH infrastructure for sanitation and hygiene and water for household nutrition gardens; (3) organizing training for various local actors, particularly women's associations and youth organizations, to strengthen their capacity to demand integrated nutrition services; (4) training of health services providers on strategies for gender-responsive integrated nutrition-health delivery; and (5) facilitating district level inter-sectoral nutrition forum/meetings for information sharing, collective capacity building, and informing policy/decision-making.