USAID Advancing Nutrition

$245.76M USD

Funder	U.S. Agency for International Development
Recipient Organization	JSI Research & Training Institute, Inc.
Country	Democratic Republic of the Congo
Start Date	Apr 02, 2022
End Date	Nov 15, 2026
Duration	1,688 days
Number of Grantees	925
Roles	Recipient
Data Source	US Foreign Aid
Grant ID	`213749-76`

Grant Description

USAID Advancing Nutrition is a five-year contract designed by the nutrition team in the Bureau for Global Health, in collaboration with the Bureau for Food Security and the Office of Food for Peace.

The objective of the project is to support the implementation of USAIDs Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Strategy 2014-2025 as well as progress toward the Agencys goals of improving nutrition to save lives, build resilience, increase economic productivity and advance development.

The purpose of USAID Advancing Nutrition is to strengthen the enabling environment for and support country-led scale-up of effective, integrated and sustainable nutrition-specific and nutrition-sensitive policies, programs/interventions and systems to improve nutritional status and health.

This nutrition mechanism is designed to cover a broad range of activities that fall under the following three intermediate results (IRs): IR 1: Equitable provision and utilization of proven, quality nutrition interventions and services at scale IR 2: Country commitment and capacity for multi-sectoral nutrition programming strengthened IR 3: Global learning, evidence and innovative practices generated and applied to nutrition programs