ENRICH helps to achieve global nutrition targets, reduce maternal and child mortality, and improve overall maternal, newborn, and child health and nutrition outcomes by:
- Using nutrition-specific and nutrition-sensitive approaches to reduce malnutrition in the first 1,000 days after conception
- Strengthening health systems by training health workers for quality provision of nutrition services, improving nutrition commodity management in health facilities, and improving health service delivery information for program decision-making
- Developing evidence-informed, context-specific behaviour change interventions
- Increasing consumption of fortified and biofortified food, micronutrient supplements and a variety of nutritious food
- Strengthening gender-responsive governance, policy and public engagement on maternal, newborn and child health
ENRICH is expected to reach:
- 674,000 mothers
- 553,000 children
We also conduct research to inform government decision-making, including:
- Development of a cost-effectiveness model comparing iron-folic acid supplementation to multiple micronutrient supplementation (MMS) during pregnancy. An accompanying online tool, the MMS Cost-Benefit Tool, provides country-specific information about the health benefits and budget impact of adopting antenatal MMS
- Impact evaluation and cost-effectiveness analysis of interpersonal counselling to improve adherence to iron-folic acid supplement consumption among pregnant women in two districts of Bangladesh
- Qualitative research to understand the health- and nutrition-related knowledge, attitudes, and care-seeking behaviours of pregnant adolescents and their influencers in Bangladesh