publication / September 18, 2024
Capacity Statement: Reproductive, Maternal, Newborn, Child, Adolescent Health & Nutrition 2024
The World Vision Zambia Health programme focuses on Reproductive, Maternal, Newborn, Child, Adolescent Health and Nutrition (RMNCAHN). The aim of the programme is to improve the health status of pregnant women, lactating mothers and children under the age of five. Our strategic objective for health is to contribute to the reduction of maternal and child mortality through improved health and nutrition practices. The heart of World Vision’s Global Health and Nutrition Strategy is a package of preventative interventions for mothers and children under two, targeting the first 1,000-days.
publication / September 19, 2024
Capacity Statement: Citizen Voice and Action 2024
Citizen Voice and Action (CVA) is a local advocacy approach that World Vision uses to increase dialogue between ordinary citizens and organizations that provide services to the public. It aims to improve accountability from the administrative and political sections of government (both national and local) in order to improve the delivery and quality of public services. The approach aims to empower communities to realize the potential within to influence the quality, efficiency and accountability of public services.
publication / September 4, 2024
Better Food, Better Health Project, WV Timor-Leste
World Vision (WV)’s Better Food, Better Health (BFBH) project was a nutrition-sensitive agriculture project aiming to improve nutrition for 31,806 direct beneficiaries in Timor-Leste.
article / September 10, 2024
Maternal and Child Health Promoted in Luanda
Recently, the WVA team, in partnership with the JUCARENTE - a local organization, visited four pregnant women from the Cazenga municipality who are being monitored weekly by health agents.
article / August 1, 2024
IMPORTANT PUBLIC NOTICE
ALERT! It has come to our attention that several agencies or persons, are claiming to be acting as World Vision International or on World Vision's behalf in recruiting or facilitating the recruitment of personnel on WhatsApp and other digital channels.
publication / July 19, 2024
Promotion of Baby-Friendly Health Centres (BFHC)
Between the '90s and early 2000s, Cambodia showed impressive achievement in the percentage of children in Cambodia exclusively breastfed for the first 6 months; however, it later decreased from 74% in 2010 to 51% in 2021 (CDHS). In addition, the country registered low rates of early breastfeeding initiation, with only 54% of new-borns breastfed within 1 hour of birth, even though 98.7% of the births are delivered by skilled birth attendants in Cambodia according to the Cambodia Demographic Health Survey 2021-2022.
publication / September 4, 2024
Scaling Social Accountability Evidence from Africa, Asia and the Caucasus
This publication shares World Vision’s evidence of the impact of social accountability after 12 years of investment in research and application across 48 countries, including 15 designated as fragile contexts/states.