Goal: To help ensure food security and increase resilience among vulnerable households with children under 5 and women of childbearing age in Stung Treng

Project Objective:

1-To improve nutrition practices and access to health services for infants and young children under 5, as well as women of childbearing age.

2-To increase home-based production of nutritious food for families with young children under 5 through adapted farming and processing methods

3-To improve the water, hygiene and sanitary infrastructure and practices for vulnerable and marginalised households in the target communities.

4-Staff of the local project sponsor and provincial and district health authorities are able to independently carry out high-quality mother & child health and livelihood projects, and lobby the government to improve state services.

Key Activities Approach:

Nutrition component:

• Conduct capacity building to WP project  and HC staff in mother & child health

• Capacity building to VHSG & parent leader on nutrition

• Conduct community health promotion

• Conduct mass screening to children under 5 years old

• Referral SAM children and conduct community MAM rehabilitation

Livelihood Component:

•  Identify 700HH farmer

• Training to 700 HH farmer on home garden both vegetable & Animal raising

• Provide support to 600 household farmer to set up their home garden.

• Training on food processing and support to HHs who have planning for their business

• Identify key farmer and support them to improve their home garden

WASH Component:

• Conduct CLTS re-triggering and post follow up to reach ODF villages

• Raise awareness on hygiene practices through gender-responsive BCC with participation from both women and men

• Construct 30 community well 1 community pond and 1 water pipe system

• Provide water jar and water filter to 500 poor family to improve their drinking water

• Provide latrine subsidy to 500 poor household to improve their sanitation.