GUATEMALA Maternal and Infant Health and Nutrition

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The Maternal-Infant Health and Nutrition Project for Guatemala aims to: (a) improve maternal and infant health in the project's 40 areas of intervention; and (b) reduce chronic malnutrition among children younger than 2 years of age in the rural areas of the 70 municipalities targeted by the project. The project has the following components: (1) This component will support the development of a Maternal and Infant Health Referral Network, promote the demand for maternal and infant health care, and contribute to increase the proportion of safe institutional deliveries, the referral of obstetric emergencies directly from the community. (2) This component aims to address the problem of child malnutrition in the selected 70 municipalities by expanding coverage of community-based growth promotion and basic health services. (3) This component seeks to: (i) provide support to poor families to learn about nutrition and health programs, encourage the poor and indigenous population to utilize health and nutrition services promote changing in pattern of behavior, disseminate the population's right to utilize services, and encourage social auditing; (ii) design and implement a comprehensive monitoring and evaluation system (M&E) for the nutrition and health interventions; and (iii) measure the Project's impact on targeted population welfare. (4) This component would support the institutional capacity of the Ministry of Health to implement and administer basic health and nutrition services.