Commitment

Increase number of community health volunteers and care groups

Civil society organisation / United States of America

Description

Overarching commitment (for commitments submitted pre-2025)

Title

Care Groups for nutrition, breastfeeding

Description

One of the ways we can achieve our goals is to utilize our more than 2,500 groups of community health volunteers across the globe. Each of these groups is led by a remarkable hero who is herself a mother, and works with at least ten other mothers in her community to encourage better nutrition through breastfeeding and diverse diets. We call these groups care groups. When one woman learns how to better care for her family’s health and nutrition in her Care Group, she shares that with others, and it cascades throughout the entire community. As our number of community health volunteers and care groups continues to expand, this important sharing of resources, woman to woman, family to family, will grow exponentially.

GNR assessment

Verification status
Partially verified
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SMARTness index
Lower moderate
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Details

Global nutrition target(s)
Exclusive breastfeeding
Childhood stunting
Childhood wasting
Nutrition Action Classification(s)
Enabling > Operational
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Linked event(s)
  • 2021 Tokyo N4G Summit
N4G Summit theme(s)
  • Food
  • Health
  • Resilience

Measurement

Key indicator Increased number of community health volunteers and care groups
Value Measurement date
Baseline No 2021
Target Yes

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