Publication: Uganda’s Nutrition and Early Child Development Project - Counting on Communication
Date
2005-04
ISSN
Published
2005-04
Author(s)
Cabanero-Verzosa, Cecilia
Abstract
In 1998, a $34 million World Bank loan
for the Nutrition and Early Child Development Project
(NECDP) was approved to support the National Program of
Action for Children. The NECDP covered about 8,000
communities in 20 of Uganda's 39 districts, selected
based on levels of malnutrition, infant mortality, and
primary school enrollment rates. The project sought to halve
malnutrition among preschool children, raise primary school
enrollment, reduce dropout and repetition rates, improve
psycho-social and cognitive development, and increase the
number of mothers practicing appropriate childcare.
Citation
“Cabanero-Verzosa, Cecilia. 2005. Uganda’s Nutrition and Early Child Development Project - Counting on Communication. Africa Region Findings & Good Practice Infobriefs; No. 111. © World Bank, Washington, DC. http://openknowledge.worldbank.org/entities/publication/c290b89c-9523-5eb1-93fc-c179ed359cf9 License: CC BY 3.0 IGO.”