Enhancing Mother Newborn and Child Health in Remote Areas

The project also known as the Enhance Mother Newborn and Child Health in Remote Areas through Health Care and Community Engagement (EMBRACE) project aims to reduce preventable stunting and maternal-child mortality in hard-to-reach and peripheral regions in Cambodia Burma Philippines and Rwanda. Project activities include: (1) delivering awareness-raising sessions on maternal newborn and child health and nutrition issues for women of reproductive age as well as male and female community members; (2) training midwives nurses traditional birth attendants and community health volunteers on safe birthing practices; (3) building and equipping clinics and/or delivery rooms for expectant mothers; and (4) providing supplies and training on how to gro healthy and diverse foods in household gardens. This project is expected to contribute directly to the improved health of approximately 100 000 people including approximately 33 000 children of vulnerable groups including ethnic minority groups and displaced persons returning to their homes. In addition more than 360 000 people are expected to benefit indirectly from this project's results. This initiative is implemented through a consortium led by Adventist Development and Relief Agency Canada (ADRA) including the Hincks-Dellcrest Institute (HDI) and Youth Challenge International (YCI).

The expected outcomes for this project include: (1) improved coverage and utilization of essential health services by mothers pregnant women newborns and children under five years of age; (2) increased consumption of nutritious foods and supplements by mothers pregnant women and children under five years of age; and (3) increased awareness in Canadian women and men in global and local maternal newborn and child health and nutrition.