Providing an

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Providing an essential package for child
survival WFP and UNICEF in Ethiopia
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WFP and UNICEF in Ethiopia

• Deliberate, strategic partnership to address the
  underlying causes of child undernutrition, and
  ensure
• Access to adequate food
• Care for mothers and children
• Access to essential health services
• Reorientation, refocusing of existing resources

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Enhanced Outreach Strategy for Child Survival

• 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

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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 TSF

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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.

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Key challenges

• Multi-sectoral coordination not smooth
• Screening coverage, quality too low
• Increasing, ensuring government ownership and
  budgeting
• Effective institutionalisation of results-based
  management system for the EOS/TSF

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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