Project improves nutrition and food security

Location: Uganda and in 18 other countries across Africa, Asia, and Latin America and the Caribbean

Through the Food and Nutrition Technical Assistance II Project (FANTA-2), FHI 360 built on more than a decade of experience in improving and expanding global standards and capacity for nutrition and food security. We strengthened the capacity of ministries, nongovernmental organizations and USAID-funded projects to support and implement proven nutrition-related programs by training more than 2,000 community- and facility-based health practitioners, volunteers, academicians and technical staff. We created tools that enabled better detection and management of acute malnutrition and that improved the targeting, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of food security interventions. We also helped 16 host country governments develop national nutrition policies, action plans and guidelines. Through these efforts, we have contributed to sustainable improvements in the nutritional status of vulnerable populations, including women and children, and to increased national productivity and economic growth.