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PD/Hearth project in Guinea
Sector: Nutrition
Location(s): Dinguiraye, Guinea / Dabola, Guinea / Siguiri, Guinea
Organization: Africare, Adventist Development and Relief Agency (ADRA)
Africare was one of the first NGOs to the Hearth Model program in its Title II programming in West Africa. They have implemented PD/Hearth Model programs in 8 Title II programs in countries including Guinea, Malawi, Rwanda, Niger, Burkina Faso, Mozambique, Sierra Leone, and Mali. Africare introduced the Hearth Model program in Guinea in 2000, three years after growth monitoring promotion activities began, in response to the need to provide care and support to children ages 9 – 36 months that the growth monitoring program identified as moderately malnourished. The program has had great successes. For example, 12 months after one 12-day PD/Hearth session ended, moderate malnutrition rates in participating children dropped from 85% to 31%, indicating sustained positive impacts of the program.
Since 2001, Africare, in collaboration with the Guinean Ministry of Public Health, has been implementing the Guinean Food Security Initiative, funded by USAID. In light of the increasing HIV/AIDS prevalence, the links between malnutrition and HIV/AIDS, and the increased numbers of children orphaned as a result of AIDS, Africare Guinea made the decision to extend the PD/Hearth approach in areas of high HIV/AIDS prevalence. The main objectives of the project are to ameliorate the nutritional state of children and the sanitary status of women and infants under 5 years old; and to increase and diversify household agricultural production. It has been the main platform to introduce nutritional rehabilitation using the PD Hearth Model. Overall, 85% of malnourished children gained weight and 80% of orphan children gained weight.
Adventist Development and Relief Agency (ADRA) implemented the Child Survival Project from 2000-2005. The project was conducted in the Siguiri Prefecture of the Republic of Guinea and focused on using the PD/Hearth method to address nutrition, immunization, safe motherhood, and malaria. The project had many successes, including a decrease in severe malnutrition rates from 20% to 5% in children ages 6 to 23 months of age. To read more, click here.
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PD Hearth Project in Indonesia
Sector: Nutrition
Location(s): Indonesia
Organization: USAID
From 2003 – 2008, USAID funded five international NGOs, (CARE, Catholic Relief Services (CRS), Mercy Corps (MC), Save the Children US (SC), and World Vision International (WVI)), to implement Positive Deviance in Indonesia as part of food security programs. Together, the five NGOs reached 9,997 children across the country. Of this number, 59.6% gained 200g between admission into the program (Day 1) and graduation from the program (Day 10). Of 4,847 participants who were weighed again at the end of the month, 45% had gained the recommended 400g. Results differed slightly (but not significantly) between implementers; however, they differed dramatically between different communities.
For the full report, click here.