Enhanced Nutrition for Mothers and Children

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The development objective of the Enhanced Nutrition for Mothers and Children Project for Pakistan is to increase the coverage of interventions, in the project areas, that are known to improve the nutritional status of children less than two years of age, of pregnant, and of lactating women. The project comprises of four components. The first component, addressing general malnutrition in women and children will support key nutrition interventions that address general malnutrition, mainly in pregnant and lactating women and children less than two years of age. The second component, addressing micronutrient malnutrition will support vitamin and mineral interventions for women and young children. The third component, communication for development component includes three types of cross-cutting communications activities that will support all the other project interventions: (i) advocacy; (ii) mass media campaigns for behavior change; and (iii) inter-personal communications. The fourth component, strengthening institutional capacity will strengthen existing institutional capacity for nutrition at the provincial and district levels.