skilled birth attendants on
breastfeeding counseling to
strengthen support
provided to
women delivering in health facilities
HEALTH AND NUTRITION
CAPACITY BUILT
27,000
Female Community HealthVolunteers
• Counseling on good nutrition, health, and WASH practices
• Screening, referral and follow up of malnourished children
• Facilitating peer support through Health Mothers’ Group
• Leadership and social mobilization skills through engaging in local government planning processes
BUILT CAPACITY OF
1,750
TRAINED MORE THAN
12,000
coaches to improve the quality
of health and nutrition services
for women and children by
supporting and mentoring
clinical staff in health facilities
of health and nutrition services
for women and children by
supporting and mentoring
clinical staff in health facilities
SUPPORTED CLOSE TO
10,000
community members to become nutrition champions through changing harmful social norms and promoting good nutrition practices in families with pregnant women and young children
• Peer Facilitators (More than 3,200),
• Gender Equality and Social Inclusion (GESI) champions (more than 1,000),
• Village Model Farmers (4,000),
• Suaahara II frontline workers (more than 1,500)
SERVICES PROVIDED
CLOSE TO
2.2 million
counselling session given by FCHVs and Suaahara II frontline staff to support nutrition and health behaviors including water, sanitation, and hygiene practices in families with pregnant women and young children
REACHED MORE THAN
8,000
adolescents with comprehensive information and support to practice good health, nutrition and WASH behaviors
Supported the Ministry of Health and Population, Family Welfare Division, to facilitate vitamin A campaign that reaches over
900,000
children 6-59 months twice a year
316,000
children with acute malnutrition identified, counselled and referred for treatment
• 22,500 case of moderate malnourished
• 11,000 case of severe acute malnutrition
Water Sanitation & Hygiene
STRENGTHENED THE CAPACITY
to promote good WASH practices, including menstrual hygiene management
5,000
Built the capacity of more than
13,500
Students
MORE THAN
21,000
households attained
healthy home status
IMPROVED WASH PRACTICES OF
5,700
health facility staff limiting transmission of infectious diseases
MORE THAN
14,500
in-school and 9,000 out-of-school adolescent girls on menstrual hygiene management
REACHED MORE THAN
33,000
individuals through community total sanitation events
REACHED MORE THAN
900
shops supported to promote better access to WASH products such as water filters
AGRICULTURE
Built resilience of more than
3,000
women farmers through training and coaching on good saving and credit practices, helping them to access loans to invest in their farm and to pay for unforeseen costs
More than
2,000
Women farmers in communities vulnerable to climate change supported with climate smart agriculture technology to increase resilient year-round production of nutritious food
Over
100,000
homestead garden with backyard poultry coops established
supported
4,000
Village Model Farmers
to support access to diverse and nutritious foods at community level of whom:
more than
1,000
VMFs were trained and coached on business planning to increase their income capacity
almost
52,000
households received agriculture inputs like seed packets and chicks, during their 1,000-day period to establish kitchen gardens and chicken coops making nutritious food available right in their backyard to
close to
4,000
Homestead Food Production groups established of which around 1,250 are now registered with their local municipality allowing them to access local government support
Partnered with close to
150
private sector partners to boost nutritious food production and consumption by improving access inputs, services, and market outlets
GOVERNANCE
Nutrition budget allocation and utilization in Suaahara II municipalities 2016-2022
$13.5 M
allocated in FY 2021/22 for nutrition, bringing the total budget for nutrition in the last six years to $55.2 million
Source: Municipal budget allocation and utilization for respective years (the number of municipalities reporting allocation ranges from 81-340 where as for utilization it ranges from 63- 327)
Collaborated with local level government stakeholders across all
3,353
wards of 389 municipalities covered by the program on improving coordination, planning and budgeting for nutrition
Supported the development of national and local level policies, plans, guidelines, and manuals to facilitate the implementation of quality nutrition interventions
41
Suaahara II community champions elected to local government in the 2022 local election
Social & Behaviour Change Communication
more than
400,000
pregnant and lactating women participated in celebrating key milestones of the pregnancy and the child’s first 6 months and educated on how to prepare nutritious food using locally available ingredients
140 +
radio stations broadcasted 366 episodes of
Bhanchin Aama
, in 4 different languages
almost
600,000
families received SMS during their first 1,000 day period with information to support them to practices good nutrition
Gender Equality & Social Inclusion
Counseled more than
1,300
men and women to become gender champions by challenging social and gender norms starting in their own families.
Counseled more than
5,500
vulnerable households to access child cash grants