The Cambodia Nutrition Project aims to improve utilization and quality of maternal and child health and nutrition services for targeted groups in Cambodia by serving as an anchor for an enhanced and coordinated response to accelerate the country’s human capital formation, focusing on facility and community-based approaches to maternal and child health and nutrition in the first 1,000 days.
Project components include:
1. Strengthening the delivery of priority health services and financing community-based interventions to increase utilization of facility-based priority service.
2. Encouraging the accountability of sub-national authorities to support improvements in reproductive, maternal, newborn child, and adolescent health and nutrition.
BIC, along with our partner Reproductive and Child Health Alliance (RACHA) in Cambodia, see additional opportunities to improve the engagement of national level civil society organizations in the GFF Multi-Stakeholder Country Platform and the ability of marginalized groups to access project benefits. We are at the early stages of monitoring the project and seek to answer the following questions and concerns:
1. What practices can be developed to strengthen the GFF Multi-Stakeholder Platform so that it can serve as a mechanism for continued CSO engagement throughout the project lifecycle?
2. How is project implementation affecting marginalized groups and responding to the needs of the communities in Cambodia?
3. Is the GFF engaging stakeholders in consultations? The GFF should involve organizations representing diverse marginalized groups throughout the project to increase their access to project benefits.
4. The communication campaign is not reaching marginalized groups as they are not being reached by the mass media as they do not possess a device like radio, smartphone or TV. Cultural differences, shyness and fear of discrimination prevent them from attending meetings to get information about the project.
The World Bank is financing US $15 million of the project and the GFF is funding US $10 million.
