Goal

Reach over 40,000 per year with our Positive Deviance Hearth intervention, empowering caregivers with the knowledge and skills to identify and prepare nutritious foods available in their communities, and promoting diet diversity and neglected and under-utilized indigenous foods.

FROM Commitment: World Vision International Commitment

Civil Society Organisation / United Kingdom

World Vision International

Date made: 28 Oct 2021
Related event: 2021 Tokyo N4G Summit
Verification status Verified Find out more
NAF SMARTness index High Find out more
Targeted location Multi-country - Generally low income and fragile contexts where there is prevalence of undernutrition in the under-five cohort, and where Positive Deviance Hearth inquiry indicates adequate local food security for the intervention. DRC, Chad, Indonesia, Mauritania, Sri Lanka, Vietnam, Mali, Zambia, Uganda, …
Targeted population Specific population group(s)
Targeted population age Specific age group(s)
Targeted population specific age Under Five children
Targeted population sex All
Population coverage 200,000.0
Primary indicator Number of children participating in the programme per year
Primary indicator baseline 22577 children per year
Primary indicator target 40000 children per year
Duration October, 2020 - September, 2025

Goal action plan

Positive Deviance Hearth is a core project model for World Vision, recommended across our country programmes where there is significant under-five child undernutrition.

Nutrition Action Classification

Enabling

  • Financial
  • Operational
  • Leadership and governance
  • Research monitoring and data

Policy

  • Food environment
  • Food supply chain
  • Consumer knowledge
  • Nutrition care services

Impact

  • Undernutrition
  • Diet
  • Obesity and diet-related NCDs
  • Food and nutrition security

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