Description
CARE will support women in practicing exclusive breastfeeding (EBF) by improving mothers' understanding, knowledge, and adoption of EBF, while also working with fathers and other influential household/community members to ensure their support for breastfeeding mothers. To do so, CARE will mobilize "transformative group" platforms to increase the number of mothers receiving nutrition education, creating a social environment supporting change, and allowing peers to share experiences and best practices for pregnancy, breastfeeding, and complementary feeding. These groups included mothers' support groups, male support groups, adolescent girls' groups, and VSLAs.
Overarching commitment (for commitments submitted pre-2025)
Title
Improving Nutrition Approaches
Description
Improving nutrition must happen through local structures or collectives, such as care or savings groups, and integrated approaches. This commitment will focus on both nutrition-specific and nutrition-sensitive approaches. By focusing on these two approaches, we will directly affect nutrition for women and children, support dietary diversity, and promote positive nutrition practices. CARE also focuses on male engagement and sectoral interventions such as homestead food production, improved WASH access and agriculture and natural resource management practices and models that prioritize nutrition outcomes. Building on successes, we will build stronger service delivery and coordination systems across stakeholder platforms that improve access and delivery of quality health, agriculture, water, climate, and education services, for improved nutrition.
GNR assessment
| Verification status |
Unverified
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| SMARTness index |
Low
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Details
| Global nutrition target(s) |
Anaemia
Exclusive breastfeeding
Childhood stunting
Childhood wasting
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| Nutrition Action Classification(s) |
Impact >
Diet
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Measurement
| Key indicator | Percent of infants (0-5 months) who are breastfed exclusively through 6 months |
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| Value | Measurement date | |
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| Baseline | TBD | 2021 |
| Target | TBD |
