The Need

Despite some progress, high rates of undernutrition remain a serious challenge in Ethiopia.

In Ethiopia, undernutrition is evident across the lifecycle. More than one third of children under five are stunted and one out of every 10 children are wasted. Nearly a third of Ethiopian women are malnourished and more than 20% are anaemic. This affects their health and contributes to the intergenerational cycle of undernutrition.

Our Solution

We work to improve the health and nutrition of adolescent girls, women and newborns, and infants and young children.

Read the Ethiopia Country Brief

Since 2005, Nutrition International has worked closely with government and partners to:

Assist the Ministry of Health to ensure optimal breast and complementary feeding practices through community involvement and cooking demonstrations
Reach more children under two with micronutrient powders
Support the Ethiopian Ministry of Health in vitamin A supplementation (VAS) in more than 460 Woredas (districts) through the routine health extension programs. We’ve also covered the vitamin A capsules for the whole country in coordination with UNICEF
Scale up the use of zinc and oral rehydration salts to treat diarrhoea
Reach adolescent girls with weekly iron-folic acid supplements and boys and girls with nutrition education to combat anaemia
Improve the nutritional status of pregnant women and newborns through collaborative quality improvement approach at primary healthcare units
Strengthen the ability of salt producers to properly iodize salt and work with partners to enforce universal salt iodization legislation
Conduct research that could improve adherence rates of pregnant women taking daily iron and folic acid supplementation
Assist the government and policy makers to scale up wheat flour and oil fortification in Ethiopia

Contact information

Get in touch

Country Director, Ethiopia
Tiringo Kinfegebriel
Email: tkinfegebriel@NutritionIntl.org

Nutrition International Ethiopia
Mullege Building -8th floor, Gotera to Saris Road
Nifas Silk Lafto Sub City, Woreda 07, H . No 0352
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Telephone: +251 966 21 54 03

Our Global Projects

Discover our projects in Ethiopia

Browse our projects to learn about how we deliver high-impact, low-cost, evidence-based nutrition programs for those who need it most.

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Scaling up the African Development Bank’s nutrition-smart investments

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Product development and market introduction of iodine-folic acid…

Nutrition International is leading a collaborative effort to test and introduce double-fortified salt with iodine and folic acid into the Ethiopian marketplace to prevent neural tube defects.

Ethiopian mother wearing a red headscarf holding her baby.

Technical Assistance for Nutrition (TAN) Project

With UK aid from the UK Government, NTEAM’s TAN project provides support and assistance to SUN Movement countries to improve the nutritional status of their populations, especially women and children.

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Vitamin A Supplementation

Since 1994, we've been leading the global effort to reduce the death of children under five by making sure that vitamin A supplements are delivered to developing countries around the world.

Hajara Isah's child receiving vitamin A supplement.

Zinc Alliance for Child Health (ZACH)

Zinc Alliance for Child Health provides financial and technical support to scale up zinc and LO-ORS treatment in countries that have high numbers of children dying from childhood diarrhoeal diseases.

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