Cambodian women and children benefiting from health-tech

 09-Aug-17, reliefweb

Through the five-year NOURISH project, funded through USAID and the U.S. Feed the Future initiative, USAID/Cambodia is working with the Royal Government of Cambodia to accelerate progress in improving nutrition among women and children. Using an integrated crosssectoral approach, NOURISH brings together health/nutrition, water, sanitation and hygiene, and agriculture interventions in 565 rural villages, reaching nearly 26,000 women and children in three Cambodian provinces.

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Through NOURISH, USAID aims to create demand for the improved use of services, practices, and products. The project has set up a Conditional Cash Transfer (CCT) initiative for poor, food-insecure households with a pregnant woman or child under two, known as “first 1,000 days” families, to incentivize the timely use of health and nutrition services.

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