International Development Grant
Southern African Nutrition Initiative - Response to Coronavirus (COVID-19)
Project Number: CA-3-P001040003
Status: Closed
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Maximum Contribution: $1,092,644.00
Start Date: July 16, 2020
End Date: June 30, 2022
Duration: 2.0 years
Project Description
This project aims to lessen the damage caused by the COVID-19 pandemic on poor and marginalized communities in targeted areas of Malawi Mozambique and Zambia. Aligned with national pandemic response plans this project works to help reduce the impact of COVID-19 on vulnerable people particularly women and girls by increasing the capacity of health care centers health care workers and communities to prevent and respond to the pandemic. Project activities include: (1) providing training to facility- and community-based health workers to better identify and respond to COVID-19; (2) providing health centers with essential hygiene and sanitation supplies including locally-procured personal protective equipment; (3) raising awareness about COVID-19 prevention and safe hygiene and sanitation practices among community members; (4) increasing access to essential hygiene and sanitation supplies at the household level; and (5) strengthening community-based sexual and gender-based violence prevention and response mechanisms. This project expects to directly benefit 59 000 women girls men and boys in Malawi Mozambique and Zambia. This project also expects to indirectly benefit an additional 1 075 000 women men girls and boys.
Expected Results
The expected outcomes for this project include: (1) improved capacity of health centers and health care workers to prevent and respond to COVID-19; and (2) increased capacity of communities to prevent and respond to COVID-19.
Progress & Results Achieved
Results achieved as of March 2021 include: (1) trained 433 health care workers (of which 269 women) in COVID-19 identification and response; (2) trained 786 volunteer community health workers (of which 376 women) in COVID-19 prevention and response; (3) 90 rural health facilities received urgent COVID-19 equipment and supplies including 55 650 masks (medical surgical and reusable) 15 000 examination gloves and 120 infra-red thermometers; (4) held 649 community-level information and awareness meetings to provide people with evidence-based information about COVID-19 and the increased incidence of sexual and gender-based violence that followed the pandemic reaching approximately 58 700 people; and (5) increased the capacity of the health system and communities to prevent and respond to COVID-19 and the negative social consequences of the pandemic.
Key Information
Executing Agency:
CARE Canada
Reporting Organization:
Global Affairs Canada
Program:
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Last Modified:
September 19, 2025
Development Classifications
DAC Sector:
Aid Type: Project-type interventions
Collaboration: Bilateral
Finance Type: Aid grant excluding debt reorganisation
Selection Mechanism:
Call for Proposals