CHILD

Community & Home Initiative for Longterm Development

The Uganda Nutrition and Early Childhood Development (NECD) Project is a response to the Health Policy, the Food and Nutrition Policy, the National Population Policy, the Education Policy, the National Gender Policy, the Uganda National Plan of Action for Children (UNPAC), the Children's Statute (1996), the National Water Statute and Sanitation Policy (1995), and the Local Government Statute (1997)

Uganda is still faced with poor social indicators. This is reflected by the Infant Mortality Rate (IMR) of 97 deaths per 1000 live births, and the Maternal Mortality rate (MMR) of 506 per 100,000 live births. Chronic malnutrition (stunting) is high at 38% and the prevalence of acute malnutrition (wasting) is also high 5%.

The Nutrition and Early Childhood Development (NECD) Project was designed by the Government through a participatory approach to address the issues that lead to or are related to poor indicators. In addition, due consideration was paid to different sectors involved in child welfare. It is therefore, within the project design to ensure a multi-sectoral approach to project implementation at the district, sub-county, parish and community levels. The project provides avenues for agreed world wide, that malnutrition is a socio-economic and cultural rather the a medical problem. Therefore, the objective of the NECD Project is to provide a package of interventions to result into sustainable achievements as a cost the country can afford.

The conception and design of the project is an outcome of the above conception and the recommendations obtained through a consultative process. This involved the Ministries of Health, Agriculture, Animal Industry and Fisheries, Education and Sports, Local Government, Gender and Community Development, Finance, Planning and Economic Development, Justice, Non Governmental Organizations, the Media, and the private sector.

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