Project No.: 2025_0121_018
CHILD Project
Collaborative Child Health Initiative for Life-saving and Development (CHILD) Project in the Catholic Diocese of Navrongo-Bolgatanga / Ghana
About the Project
The CHILD Project, implemented by the Navrongo-Bolgatanga Catholic Diocesan Development Organisation (NABOCADO), is a community health initiative targeting seven refugee host communities in 3 districts of Ghana's Upper East Region. The project aims to reduce childhood illness including pneumonia, diarrhea, anemia and malaria among children under five years of age in the Burkina Faso refugee host community members in the Catholic Diocese of Navrongo-Bolgatanga.
Project Target Groups
Children 0–5 Years
Receiving immunization, growth monitoring, nutritional support and early childhood development services.
Women of Reproductive Age & Caregivers
Empowered through health education, nutritional counseling and maternal health services.
Frontline Health Workers
Midwives, Community Health Nurses and Volunteers strengthened through targeted capacity-building training.
Key Interventions
- 1 Training 500 caregivers (frontline health workers, Women of Reproductive Age & Community Health Volunteers) on Integrated Management of Childhood Illness (IMCI) protocols.
- 2 Establishing Mother-to-Mother Support Groups in all 7 communities for peer-led health education.
- 3 Promoting year-round home gardening of green leafy vegetables to address micronutrient deficiencies.
- 4 Equipping 6 health facilities with pediatric medical equipment and trained personnel.
- 5 Facilitating community-based Growth Promotion and Monitoring sessions for children under 5.
Expected Impact
By December 2028, the CHILD Project expects to see measurable improvements in child health outcomes, reduced childhood illness rates, stronger community health systems and empowered families equipped with the knowledge and tools to care for their children year-round — contributing to SDG 3.2 on ending preventable deaths of newborns and children under 5.
Partners
The project is implemented in partnership with:
Funded by
Kindermissionswerk Germany