CHILDREN BELIEVE FUND
$14,633,868.00 CAD
- Department
- Global Affairs Canada
- Program
- —
- Recipient country
- Ethiopia
- Fiscal year
- 2023-2024
- Agreement period
- May 23, 2023 – March 31, 2031
- Project status
- Implementation
- Reference
- CA-3-P011788001
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.
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This project improves nutrition for women, adolescent girls, and children in Ghana and Ethiopia through vegetable and fruit tree growing, WASH infrastructure, training for local actors and health providers, and district-level nutrition forums.
Category: Foreign Aid Development Primarily funds activity outside Canada
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