Room to Grow

Culturally acceptable interventions are urgently needed to avert malnutrition and chronic food insecurity, and to achieve the country's ambitious target of reaching a contraceptive prevalence rate of 50% by 2020. Current efforts in the Sahel often fail to incorporate women as central to solutions, or as key actors and agents of change. Our project begins with women, and is rooted in places where women already gather and thrive - the garden, which is emerging as a vital place for women to meet, grow nutritious food, and generate income. The project team proposes to assess proof-of-concept for an integrated solution that brings together community-based delivery of family planning and promotion of essential nutrition actions, with OASIS leading research to compare intervention and control gardens.