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Enhancing Nutrition of Upland Farming Families (ENUFF) Phase II is a multi-sector project that aims to improve family nutrition in remote and ethnically diverse upland farming communities in the Oudomxay and Houaphan provinces of Lao PDR. The project is implemented between June 2020 and July 2024, with the aim to enhance the nutritional status of more than 6,000 families.
Building on earlier project achievements, Phase II of ENUFF applies multi-sectoral development approaches, including:
Phases I and II of ENUFF are funded by the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation and implemented by SNV. The project contributes to realising the goals of the Government of Lao PDR’s national Multi-sectoral Food and Nutrition Security Action Plan. SNV staff will work closely with several government agencies, e.g., Ministries of Health, Agriculture, Education, and the Lao Women Union, alongside communities, to sustain the project’s outcomes and promote more conducive policy and institutional frameworks for improving nutrition.
ENUFF implements tried and tested SNV approaches for nutrition: Sustainable Nutrition for All (SN4A), rural water: Area-wide Rural Water Supply Services (ARWSS), and rural sanitation: Sustainable Sanitation and Hygiene for All (SSH4A).
Enable the knowledge and skills of farming communities to grow nutritious and diverse food through organised practical agricultural trainings at village level by trained extension agents.
Reduce sanitation- and hygiene-related diseases by constructing or rehabilitating WASH facilities, and raising intra-household demand, use, and maintenance of facilities through behavioural change activities.
Improve household knowledge and skills, specifically mothers’ and caregivers’, in nutrition, health, and child feeding to enhance dietary diversity of women of reproductive age, adolescent girls, and infants through behavioural change activities.
Strengthen the policy, strategic, and institutional framework to prevent food and nutrition insecurity through the generation of evidence-based policy briefs and deployment of capacity building activities for nutrition specialists at local level.
Key achievements in ENUFF Phase I