Championing Nutrition and Gender Equality (CHANGE)

The 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) WASH infrastructure for sanitation and hygiene and water for household nutrition gardens (3) village savings and loans and community led integrated nutrition teams especially with women in procuring and/or constructing appropriate processing and storage solutions; (4) training of health services providers on strategies for gender-responsive integrated nutrition-health delivery; and (5) district level inter-sectoral nutrition forum/meetings facilitated for information sharing collective capacity building and informing policy/decision-making.

The expected outcomes of this project include: (1) improved women's leadership and control over resources for community and individual gender-equitable nutrition practices; (2) strengthened gender-equitable integrated nutrition and health services for the poorest and most marginalized especially women adolescent girls and children; and (3) improved effectiveness of key stakeholders to provide gender-responsive community-based nutrition-specific activities for women adolescent girls and children locally.