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Assessing the impact on child nutrition of the Ethiopia Community-based Nutrition Program
Overview
The Government of Ethiopia (GoE) legislated a National Nutrition Policy in 2008. This centrally included a National Nutrition Program (NNP), for which by that time there was agreement in principle from the World Bank to provide an initial $30 million in funding over five years (July 2008 – June 20113), expected to be seed money for a much larger investment from other donors. The NNP plan – which had been prepared with World Bank and UNICEF input –laid out a program that was ambitious in terms of implementation (FMOH, 2008). The community-based component was linked to the much larger Health Extension Program (HEP), which trained some 30,000 new Health Extension Workers (HEWs) over the next few years. This was planned to cover most of the country’s 600 woredas (districts) over five years. This in turn was a continuation and evolution of UNICEF and WFP’s Enhanced Outreach Strategy (EOS) which provided a bi-annual campaign to deliver Vitamin A and deworming to children under-5 as well as screening for moderately malnourished pregnant and lactating women (PLW) and children under-5 for referral into the Targeted Supplementary Feeding program (TSF).
The objective of the evaluation research and analysis reported here is primarily to assess the effect attributable to CBN project activities, on outcome indicators, mainly anthropometric. In other words, the impact on young child nutritional status, measured by growth. Effects likely to be associated with the project, on infant and young child feeding (IYCF), maternal health, and certain process indicators have also been analyzed, but not (yet) further investigated in terms of their actual plausible causal attribution (this is for lack of time and resources for continuing analysis). These too are reported.
The estimated changes in indicators are discussed further in relation to the objective indicators in the plans (PAD and PIM), and to expected changes from other data from Ethiopia (e.g. DHS), and other countries.
Report Details
| Year Published | |
| Type | |
| Joint | No |
| Partner/s | N/A |
| Consultant name | |
| Agency Focal Point | Lovemore Mhuriyengwe |
| Focal Point Email | lmhuriyengwe@unicef.org |
| Managed by Independent Evaluation Office | No |
| Geographic Scope | Country |
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