Cambodia Nutrition Project Location: Ratanak Kiri, Mondul Kiri, Kratie, Stung Treng, Preah Vihear, Kampong Chhnang, and Koh Kong provinces. Financiers: • Royal Government of Cambodia: US$12 million • World Bank: US$15 million • The Global Financing Facility for Women, Children and Adolescents; the Australian Government, the German Development Bank, and H-EQIP Multi-Donor Trust Fund: US$26 million Implementing Agency: The Ministry of Health and the National Committee for Sub-national Democratic Development are leading the implementation along with the local governments in the 7 priority provinces. About the Project Approval Date: Poor early nutrition has implications for a child’s brain development, health, and early learning. April 4, 2019 Preventing malnutrition therefore is an important precursor to allow children to benefit from a smart, healthy start to fulfill their full potential to learn, innovate, and earn. At the same time, Closing Date: addressing the nutritional status of women is important, as malnutrition can impact in-utero health, June 30, 2024 with implications on the baby’s development. The Cambodia Nutrition Project aims to improve utilization and quality of priority maternal and child Contact: health and nutrition services for targeted groups in Cambodia. It will be achieved by: Mr. Ziauddin Hyder World Bank Task Team Leader • Strengthening the delivery of priority health services by leveraging the Health Equity Fund (HEF), E-mail: zhyder@worldbank.org National Quality Enhancement Monitoring Program, and Service Delivery Grants (SDG) to improve the supply-side availability, accessibility, affordability, and quality of priority health services. • Financing community-based interventions in the seven priority provinces to stimulate demand and increase utilization of facility-based priority service, as well as encourage the accountability of sub- www.worldbank.org national authorities to support improvements in reproductive, maternal, newborn child, and adolescent health and nutrition. www.youtube.com/worldbank • Ensuring an effective and sustainable response by financing (a) results-based support to Ministry of Health departments and programs, (b) development and delivery of modernized social and behavior change communication campaigns, (c) comprehensive monitoring, evaluation, and www.twitter.com/worldbank adaptive learning and (d) project management. www.facebook.com/worldbank