Save the Children is implementing health and nutrition programmes in Sierra Leone to address high child mortality and widespread malnutrition, which are mainly caused by preventable diseases and limited access to quality healthcare services.
These interventions aim to strengthen the health system, improve the quality and availability of essential services, and promote good nutrition practices at community level. Through this work, Save the Children ensures that children, especially those in hard‑to‑reach and underserved communities, can survive, grow, and develop to their full potential.
HEALTH AND NUTRITION PROGRAMME
STRENGHENING HEALTH SYSTEMS
Save the Children is supporting the Sierra Leone Ministry of Health to strengthen the health system at community and facility levels through the implementation of an integrated maternal, newborn, and child health (MNCH) and Nutrition project. Funded by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
This project aims to achieve sustained improvements in equitable access to and quality of maternal, newborn, child, and adolescent health and nutrition services, including for people with disabilities, while also increasing demand and strengthening social norms for preventive health behaviours and the use of health services, and building the capacity of local institutions and organisations to sustainably deliver evidence-based, high-quality health and nutrition services.
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