ELIM sets the baseline to measure the effectiveness of national nutrition interventions for women and children in rural Mozambique

ELIM was contracted by the World Bank Group to conduct a baseline study that will form the basis of the evaluation of the Mozambican Ministry of Health (MISAU)’s Nutrition Intervention Package. The Project, financed by the World Bank’s Global Financing Facility, aims to address the problems of stunting and micro-nutrient deficiencies in Mozambique, particularly in women and children, through the scaling up of NIP’s new delivery mechanism.

The NIP is an integrated set of nutrition services for children ages 0-24 months offered at a community level by Elementary Agents (APE’s) and volunteers in close articulation with the Community Health Committees (CCS) and the community leaders. The new NIP seeks to engage the community and the MISAU to develop and implement sustainable health/nutrition community-based interventions.

The World Bank and MISAU seek to examine the dynamics, cost-effectiveness and processes involved in the scaling-up of the NIP’s new delivery mechanism, including linkages with the community structures to consolidate and enhance MISAU’s capacity to implement community-based interventions and better engage community actors in health/nutrition issues.

ELIM conducted a baseline study which comprised a quantitative survey of 1,590 households and 1,600 children across eight provinces, namely Inhambane, Sofala, Manica, Tete, Zambézia, Nampula, Cabo Delgado and Niassa.  

ELIM has been supporting the World Bank Group’s programmatic design and impact evaluation for over a decade, with this being one of the firm’s six World Bank contracts awarded so far in 2019.

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