This, he observed, also includes engaging with mothers to see how best to help them and their children aged zero to three years, to get that physical connection to boost their growth in terms of stimulating their brains.
PPP is a twelve- month project which is targeting 225 communities in all the 6 Districts in the country.
Hence, the ongoing orientations were aimed at equipping Regional Health Team workers and the Multi-Disciplinary Facilitation Team (MDFT) to be able to identify two facilitators with basic criteria from each community who will be trained by the National Nutrition Agency on the modules and skills where each mentor will mentor and coach approximately 8-10 Facilitators.
The project is a sub-component of the Nafa programme, a component 3 of the World Bank project, funded by the World Bank to the tune of US$40,500,000.
In an interview with The Point at a meeting held at the Limbambul Bambo village, Wuli West, Baboucarr A. Bobb, revealed that it is scientifically proven that “if a child is being engaged at that young level in most cases, the child will be more productive in society and grow up their brains.
He also outlined that his team is targeting 39 communities, saying there was reassessment done that came up with the 39 communities, which included stages whereby they looked at the most vulnerable districts in terms of the poverty score as of the last integrated household poverty survey.
He observed that the most vulnerable in the six districts that were implementing the Nafa program were selected in which Wuli West is part of the selected districts.
He advanced that during the Nafa cash transfer, they collected the total number of children that come from the Nafa program households where a total of children in each village was assessed.
“We had some parameters that we run to give us the communities that have met these criteria; for instance, we looked at the availability of households headed by women, households where orphan children are and households where the ratio of men and women is also high.”
This, he said, gave them the number of communities in Wuli West that they are intervening for the PPP project that will be enrolled and engaged in the PPP project.
