Cooperative Agreement 720FDA19GR00137

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 U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) awarded a $2,150,000 Project Grant under the USAID Foreign Assistance for Programs Overseas (CFDA 98.001) program to Action Contre La Faim (ACF), a foreign-owned non-profit organization, to improve access to critical health, nutrition, protection, and water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) services in the Far North region of Cameroon. The one-year award, effective June 1, 2024 through May 31, 2025, will enable ACF to deliver emergency...

This Project Grant award of $657,757 from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) under the Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research program (CFDA 93.865) aims to reduce nutrition insecurity and malnutrition among adolescents in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). The project will employ a combination of participatory "systems thinking" methods, quantitative data, and modeling to: 1) physically map the food environments around 10 schools...

The United States Agency for International Development awarded an $8,375,914 project grant to the United Nations World Food Program to provide integrated food and nutritional assistance to refugees, internally displaced persons, and vulnerable host communities in Cameroon's Far North, North-West/South-West, and Eastern regions from December 2022 through June 2024. This funding supports the Food for Peace Emergency Program (EP) objective of improving access, availability, and utilization of...

This Project Grant award from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (CFDA 93.865 - Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research) provides $641,647 to Brigham & Women's Hospital Inc. to assess the effectiveness, implementation, and cost-effectiveness of an integrated intervention aimed at reducing the double burden of maternal and child malnutrition in rural indigenous communities in Guatemala. The project will conduct a hybrid effectiveness-implementation...

This $416,555 project grant awarded by the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) under the Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research program (CFDA 93.865) will examine the effects of adding rice bran to Ready-to-Use Therapeutic Foods (RUTF) to treat severe acute malnutrition (SAM) in children aged 6-59 months in Indonesia. Specifically, the project aims to determine the impact of the RUTF + rice bran formulation on gut microbiota composition and metabolite...

The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) awarded a $4,707,488 Project Grant under the Food for Peace Emergency Program (CFDA 98.008) to the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) to provide integrated food and nutritional assistance to crisis-affected populations in East, Far North, and Northwest/Southwest Cameroon. The funding will support WFP's efforts to improve access, availability, and utilization of food resources in these food-insecure regions, with a focus on delivering...

The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) awarded $600,000 under the USAID Foreign Assistance for Programs Overseas (CFDA 98.001) federal grant program to support a data collection and analysis system for detailed documentation of a simplified protocol for treatment of acute malnutrition (OPTIMA), including cost-effectiveness analysis, and to contribute to advocacy around simplified nutrition approaches. The Alliance For International Medical Action will deliver these services in...

The National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) awarded a Project Grant (CFDA 93.865 - Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research) totaling $595,552 to the University of Washington to develop a novel two-way short message service (SMS) platform that targets barriers to improving nutritional care for HIV-infected and HIV-exposed uninfected children. This "MAMMS-IYCF" intervention combines a maternally administered malnutrition monitoring system with...

This $2,161,051 Project Grant awarded by the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) on September 2, 2024 under the USAID Foreign Assistance for Programs Overseas (CFDA 98.001) program will fund Unicef's "EMERGENCY CHILD PROTECTION AND NUTRITION RESPONSE IN THE NW AND SW INCLUDING STRENGTHENED CLUSTER COORDINATION FOR A MORE EFFICIENT AND EFFECTIVE EMERGENCY CHILD PROTECTION AND NUTRITION RESPONSE" initiative in Cameroon. The project aims to deliver critical humanitarian...