Transcript Providing an 'essential package' for child survival: WFP

Providing an ‘essential package’
for child survival:
WFP and UNICEF in Ethiopia
WFP and UNICEF in Ethiopia
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Deliberate, strategic partnership to address
the underlying causes of child
undernutrition, and ensure:
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Access to adequate food
Care for mothers and children
Access to essential health services
Reorientation, refocusing of existing
resources
Enhanced Outreach Strategy for
Child Survival
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An ‘essential package’ of nutrition interventions:
Vitamin A supplementation
Measles vaccination
De-worming
Health, nutrition and HIV/AIDS education
Screening of under five children, pregnant and lactating
women for malnutrition
• Referral of malnourished children and women to Targeted
Supplementary Food (TSF) programme
Building on existing infrastructure
• WFP and UNICEF are building on - and
building - regional government capacity and
infrastructure for health services and food
assistance delivery
• The additional effort is focused on child
hunger and undernutrition
• Programme will expand in line with local
infrastructure capacity
• Coverage: 326 of 326 most vulnerable
districts for health services; 272 of 326 for
Key results of the EOS
• 2005: 80% of children in
defined ‘vulnerable’ districts
have received part (Vitamin A)
of the ‘essential package’
• 2006: Broader coverage: more
districts for TSF, and fuller
‘package’
• 5000 Food Distribution Agents
(community women) trained in
food distribution &
management and provision of
nutrition education to date.
Key challenges
• Multi-sectoral coordination not smooth
• Screening coverage, quality too low
• Increasing, ensuring government ownership
and budgeting
• Effective institutionalisation of resultsbased management system for the
EOS/TSF
Vision for the Future:
• EOS integrated into broader, planned government Health
Extension outreach programme
• EOS fully integrated into government budgets
• TSF managed by Regional Disaster Prevention and
Preparedness Agency and Food Distribution Agents timely
and effectively and with linkages to other food security and
nutrition programmes
• Expand FDA capacity:
– 1000 more women to be trained
– Qualified to give a broader range of nutrition education
• From emergency to community-based approach to end child
hunger and undernutrition: increase government and
community capacity to provide needed food assistance