Empowering New Generations to Improve Nutrition and Economic Opportunities (ENGINE)

A major part of ENGINE’s technical assistance work was to promote nutrition-sensitive agriculture techniques and livestock management to increase production and consumption of diverse foods (e.g., homestead production of horticultural crops and livestock such as chicken, demonstration of agronomic practices and preparation of diversified foods at farmers training centers and schools, and public-private partnership to avail high productive chicken). The project also supported most vulnerable households (more than 90% are women) with nutrition sensitive livelihoods (e.g., provision and training on poultry, small livestock, and homestead gardening vegetables and organize into saving groups). Furthermore, it promoted WASH activities for households with children less than 2 years to prevent diarrhea and improve child nutritional status (e.g., handwashing and tippy tap, sanitation marketing of latrine slab, households water filter, locally appropriate play mat, and separation of livestock and young children).

ENGINE aimed to mainstream gender in all of its nutrition activities and implement labor saving technology for women. It also Implemented a rigorous research strategy in collaboration with local universities to support and guide effective nutrition policies and practices to reduce undernutrition (e.g., impact evaluation, operations research, documentation of lessons learned).