Nutrition and Health

GEAG has been working to enhance the health and nutrition of women, children, and adolescent girls through various nutrition-based programmes and initiatives to address the nutritional challenges. The interventions aim at increasing the survival and health of people by employing a multifaceted approach that focuses on capacity building, behavioural change, monitoring, review, and evaluation. The key actions targeted at strengthening the existing health, nutrition, and food systems are supplementation of IFA tablets, Vitamin A and vaccination of infants and pregnant women. GEAG also focuses to grow awareness on nutrition and its importance in the intervention areas. It’s interventions on health-related aspects focus on mainly preventive health and ecological health.

GEAG’s interventions on health-related aspects focus on mainly preventive health and ecological health. In the flood affected areas of Gorakhpur and adjoining districts, GEAG has undertaken various initiatives to promote community health. Moreover, the focus has also been on the sanitation-nutrition-health connect as these are closely inter-linked.