Uganda’s Nutrition and Early Child Development Project - Counting on Communication

Cabanero-Verzosa, Cecilia

World Bank, Washington, DC

关键词: AFFECTION;    ATTENTION;    BASIC NEEDS;    BEHAVIOR CHANGE;    BELIEFS;   

RP-ID  :  33176

学科分类：社会科学、人文和艺术（综合）

来源: World Bank Open Knowledge Repository

【 摘 要 】

In 1998, a $34 million World Bank loanfor the Nutrition and Early Child Development Project(NECDP) was approved to support the National Program ofAction for Children. The NECDP covered about 8,000communities in 20 of Uganda's 39 districts, selectedbased on levels of malnutrition, infant mortality, andprimary school enrollment rates. The project sought to halvemalnutrition among preschool children, raise primary schoolenrollment, reduce dropout and repetition rates, improvepsycho-social and cognitive development, and increase thenumber of mothers practicing appropriate childcare.