Grants and Contributions

P001066001: This initiative aims to improve the health and nutrition status of poor and vulnerable mothers, newborns and children in select regions by working with local health authorities. It directly addresses malnutrition in the first 1000 days of children's lives in targeted districts and informs national nutrition policies in the targeted countries. Malnutrition is the cause of over 3 million child deaths annually and results in non-communicable conditions, such as stunting, wasting and anemia, as well as poor motor, cognitive and social development.

The project is being implemented in Bangladesh (Thakurgaon District), Myanmar (Thabaung Township), Kenya (Elgeyo Marakwet county) and Tanzania (Singida and Shinyanga Regions).The effects of malnutrition in these countries are significant with serious social and economic implications. Such conditions are especially pronounced in rural regions, such as those targeted by the project.

The project is expected to contribute directly to the improved health of approximately 1.64 million individuals, including more than 674,000 women, 553,000 children and 418,000 men, and indirectly reach an estimated 2.1 million individuals who are not targeted by the project but who benefit from the strengthened health system and improved health services. Policy changes in nutrition and wider application of existing policies as a result of the project advocacy efforts also have a positive impact on indirect beneficiaries. The sexual and reproductive health component of this project will directly benefit 1,284,533 people, including 549,182 women of reproductive age and 93,430 children under two years of age. Other direct beneficiaries include 309,728 adolescents (10-19 year old girls and boys), 332,194 adult men, and 2,148 service providers at facility and community levels. In addition, the initiative’s activities targeting Canadian awareness of MNCH are expected to reach over 3 million Canadians.

Project activities include: (1) recruiting, training and equipping community healthcare workers to promote and provide basic health services; (2) training local health councils in improved data collection, analysis and reporting to inform planning and delivery of maternal, newborn and child health (MNCH) services; (3) raising awareness of primary caretakers on key nutritional practices, including dietary diversity; (4) providing inputs and training in the development of home gardens; (5) training of peer-based networks/care groups on malnutrition prevention and sexual and reproductive health rights issues (i.e. family planning, early forced child marriage, sexual gender-based violence; (6) informing and increasing community participation in policy dialogue with governments on MNCH and sexual and reproductive health and rights; and, (7) implementing interactive media and linking Canadians with empowered youth in a mentorship program to improve the knowledge and ability of Canadians to engage in international MNCH, nutrition, sexual and reproductive health and rights, and gender issues.

It is implemented by World Vision Canada in collaboration with the Micronutrient Initiative, HarvestPlus, the Canadian Society for International Health, and the University of Toronto’s Dalla Lana School of Public Health. Project implementation is also supported by the following local partners: in Bangladesh: World Vision Bangladesh, Institute of Public Health Nutrition, Government of the People's Republic of Bangladesh - Office of the Civil Surgeon Thakugaon; in Myanmar: World Vision Myanmar, Thabaung Township Health Department; in Kenya: World Vision Kenya, Ministry of Health - Divison of Family Health, Ministry of Health Services - Elgeyo Marakwet County; in Tanzania: World Vision Tanzania, Ministry of Health and Social Welfare, Tanzania Food and Nutrition Centre.

P001066002: World Vision Canada is working to safeguard the provision of critical reproductive, maternal, newborn and child health services for women and girls, and support national health system efforts in the communities where they are working to help prevent and mitigate the negative consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic in Bangladesh, Kenya, Myanmar and Tanzania.

The objectives of the ENRICH-COVID19 preparedness and response plan are to strengthen community health promotion; improve health systems and health workforce capacity; and strengthen community-based social services to minimize the gendered impact of the pandemic on health systems, social services, and economic activity, particularly for women and girls. Expected activities include:

• Promoting preventive measures to slow and stop the spread of COVID-19 in target communities.
• Procuring and distributing hygiene materials to vulnerable households and key services providers/institutions for prevention of COVID-19.
• Training and equipping public health systems and service providers to deliver gender-responsive COVID-19 prevention, detection, treatment and surveillance services.
• Facilitating the protection of essential health, nutrition and sexual reproductive health and rights services, including sexual gender-based violence and Micronutrient powder supplementation.
• Promoting holistic multisector support to women, adolescent girls, children, and their families to mitigate secondary impacts of COVID-19, including negative sexual reproductive health, Maternal, Newborn and Child Health, nutrition and livelihoods outcomes.

This COVID-19 response will provide support to a total of 6,312,851 people in the ENRICH catchment and surrounding areas in Bangladesh, Kenya, Myanmar and Tanzania.

This project aims to increase civil and vital registration rates in Mozambique to ultimately inform and improve policies and programs that reduce maternal and child mortality. Project activities include: (1) establishing a continuous mortality survey system so that 60% of maternal and newborn deaths are notified by 2019; (2) certifying and determining 80% cause of deaths in hospitals; (3) developing a strategy to capture information about deaths at the community level; (4) supporting Parliament’s amendment of the Civil Registration Code; and (5) designing and using new forms for all four vital events so that 80% of children under 5 are birth registered by 2019.

P001034001: This project aims to reduce maternal, neonatal and child mortality in select communities by working with local health authorities, and supporting the use of an integrated approach focused on health, nutrition, and water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH).

Project activities include: (1) training health facility and community-based health workers on provision of reproductive, maternal and child health services and best practices in sanitation and hygiene; (2) refurbishing or rehabilitating targeted health facilities with necessary infrastructure; (3) procuring and delivering essential equipment, supplies and medicines to health facilities; and (4) providing training and equipment to community-based health workers to promote improved nutrition and hygiene practices at the household level. This project is expected to contribute directly to the improved health of approximately 1.7 million people, including 1 million women of reproductive age and over 650,000 children under five years of age.

This project is implemented through a consortium led by Amref Health Africa in Canada, with Children Believe Canada, the Hospital for Sick Children and WaterAid Canada. In Ethiopia, Amref Canada is collaborating with Amref Ethiopia and Children Believe Ethiopia; in Malawi, Tanzania and Kenya, Amref Canada is working with their local offices.