Institutional support to Nutrition International’s Strategic Plan

The project aims to support Nutrition International Canada's flagship nutrition organization working in more than 60 countries worldwide to improve the survival health and well-being of vulnerable populations especially women newborns children and adolescent girls. This project seeks to reach 800 million vulnerable people including 450 million women and girls with nutrition interventions. It integrates gender throughout global and country strategies and subsequent project designs to increase their reach and boost women and girls’ participation in project design and management. This project also supports Nutrition International’s leadership in finding and scaling solutions to malnutrition through coverage use and influence while mainstreaming gender equality and women’s empowerment . Project activities include: (1) reaching vulnerable populations with core nutrition interventions to reduce child mortality prevent anemia stunting and low birth weight and improve human capital; (2) promoting non-nutrition platforms innovative finance and technology to amplify impact and reduce missed opportunities working with gender-responsive partners; (3) strengthening international national and local resources evidence policies and gender-sensitive programs for nutrition scale-up; and (4) supporting gender-responsive programming throughout all Nutrition International programs and business models to promote gender equality and women and girls’ empowerment. This represents additional funds provided to the project in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. The description and expected results are the same.

The expected outcomes of this project include: (1) enhanced use of gender-sensitive evidence by global regional and national actors for policy development and decision-making relevant to health and nutrition; (2) improved gender sensitive and responsive nutrition and health policies and programs at national and sub-national levels; and (3) improved quantity quality timeliness and equity of the provision of gender-sensitive or responsive health and nutrition interventions particularly for vulnerable people including women newborns children and adolescent girls.