Action - SKL Sahakkom Kon Laor - Child Well Being Community - Prevention or treatment of moderate malnutrition - Infants and young children

Programme: SKL Sahakkom Kon Laor - Child Well Being Community

Programme description

SKL is an adaption of the Positive Deviance (PD) Hearth approach which is contextualized for communities in Cambodia, both urban and rural. It will leverage community mobilization and participatory learning in action to identify positive child care, feeding practices and resources from within the community for the identification and rehabilitation of moderately malnourished children. SKL is currently being implemented in urban slums of Phnom Penh as described below.

Goals:

  1. Rehabilitate Malnourished Children
  2.  Enable families to sustain the rehabilitation of their children at home on their own
  3.  Prevent future malnutrition of all children in the community by changing community norms in childcare, feeding and health seeking practices

 

 

Programme type

Community/sub-national
Status: 
On-going

Start date:

July
2013

End date:

June
2015
Area: 
Urban
Rural
Place: 
Ponleu Knong Chet ADP
Target group: 
Infants and young children
Age group: 
0-59 months
Delivery: 
Community-based
Implementation details : 

1 Technical Officer

1 Project Coordinator

1 Nutrition Advisor

Target population size : 
39,505
Coverage level (%): 
14%
Outcome indicator(s): 

Number and % of children 6- 36 months who achieved normal nutritional status after 1 year  of graduating from SKL session

 

 

M&E system: 
  • LQAS and quarterly monitoring
  • Baseline and endline evaluation
Post-intervention: 

16.7% underweight in U3 children
29.1% consumption of MMP in 6-23.9 mos children

Outcome reported by social determinants: 
Vulnerable groups

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Fri, 04/04/2014 - 16:01engesveenkEdited by hstokesWVC. Edited program description and implementation detailspublished
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