NGO Accelerates Intervention at Reducing Malnutrition among Children in Bauchi

Ibrahim Umar
Kanempress
1st February, 2023

A global nutrition initiative, the Alive & Thrive (A&T) Nigeria, has organised a one-day engagement to launch a project that would accelerate interventions aimed at reducing malnutrition among children and women in Bauchi State.

In his remark,the Technical Focal Person (TFP) of A&T, Mr. Asimobi Chidiebere, said yesterday that the initiative would build the capacity of community based organisations (CBS), and strengthen the Primary Health Care (PHC) platforms for efficient and integrated delivery of maternal and young child nutrition services in collaboration with government, the CBOs and other nutrition stakeholders.

Chidiebere told the participants that the recently launched “Accelerating the Scale of Maternal, Infant and Young Child Nutrition (MIYCN) Project” came at a time when there is a dire need to accelerate interventions aimed at reducing malnutrition among women and children in the country.

He explained that the project would not only accelerate maternal and young child feeding interventions, but would also greatly impact the nutrition narrative in the country by directly addressing nutrition issues affecting mothers and children at the grassroots.

Welcoming the sub-grantees on board, the Director of BSPHCDA, Mr. Sule Madugu, said that the sub-grantees is a nutritional programme initiated by the A&T to optimise the delivery services of the current health system to increase the coverage of key MIYCN intervention in the state.

He, therefore challenged the sub-grantees to leverage their engagements with the A$T and deploy and test the NGO’s sustainability Model as a scale mechanism while building local capacities for sustainable MIYCN project.