Mozambique: Transform Nutrition project
In 2024, ADPP Mozambique received a US$90,000 grant from the Humana People to People Foundation for the Transform Nutrition project. This six-year project started in 2019 in four districts in Mozambique and expanded to the remaining eight districts in 2020, making a total of 12 districts until the project’s end in 2025.
The project assists the government of Mozambique in developing the capacity to plan and manage multi- sectoral nutrition, sanitation, and hygiene programming. Efforts focus on improving the nutritional status of pregnant and lactating women, adolescent girls, and children less than two years of age to reduce stunting rates in Nampula province.
Now in its fifth year, the Transform Nutrition project has been extended until June 2025. It has made a significant contribution to expanding community health services to reach more people living in remote areas, by supporting Community Health Workers who have established 4,176 community nutrition sites and where integrated mobile brigades serve children, pregnant women, and adolescent girls to receive primary health care services (growth monitoring, immunization, antenatal consultations, iron, and folic acid supplementation for pregnant women and girls).
Transform Nutrition uses the people-to-people approach as it’s core for the social behavior change communication strategy, where the community members become the drivers to improve the health and nutrition of their families and the community.
For example, families have been mobilized to build and use latrines to improve hygiene and sanitation, which was not common at the beginning of the project. This strong community engagement has led the project to declare 1,136 communities Open Defecation Free, out of a total of 1,530 communities.