New award for integrated wash and nutrition research to reduce acute malnutrition

This Project Grant award for $218,460.00 was provided by the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) under the Foreign Assistance for Programs Overseas (CFDA 98.001) program. The grant aims to improve the effectiveness of Community-based Management of Acute Malnutrition (CMAM) programs in Senegal and other high-burden settings. The primary objectives are to generate additional policy-relevant evidence and deliver impact through targeted research uptake activities at multiple levels.

The prime awardee is Fundacion Accion Contra El Hambre, an international non-profit organization based in Spain, doing business as "No Hambre!". The project has two sub-awardees: Action Contre La Faim (ACF), a foreign non-profit organization, and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM), a renowned UK-based research university. Through this collaborative effort, the grant will fund integrated WASH (water, sanitation and hygiene) and nutrition research to reduce acute malnutrition, as well as analysis and uptake of the findings to improve the effectiveness of CMAM programs.

Additional analysis and uptake of findings. This is second phase of the traitement intégré DE LA sous-nutrition aiguë (TISA) project is to improve the effectiveness of programs in senegal and other high-burden settings, to generate additional policy relevant evidence; and to deliver impact through targeted research uptake activities at multiple levels