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Integrating for Impact

A Holistic Approach to Child Health

Water, nutrition, and maternal health are deeply connected; lasting change happens when we address them together. 

Why Integration Matters

Improving child health requires more than isolated interventions. Without clean water, children are more vulnerable to malnutrition. Without proper nutrition, their immune systems weaken. These challenges are deeply connected, so solutions must be too. Our Integrating for Impact Approach addresses these interconnected factors to create systemic, long-lasting impact.  

When solutions reinforce one another, they not only improve immediate health outcomes but also build long-term resilience. Resilient communities can adapt and thrive, ensuring essential services continue over time. An integrated approach tackles root causes rather than offering short-term fixes. 

How We Drive Impact Through Integration

Some of the ways our Integrated approach works in practice:   

– Water and Nutrition: Ensuring access to clean water and nutrition helps prevent malnutrition and diarrhoea in children under five.   

– Maternal Health and Food Security: Strengthening antenatal care services with nutrition education for pregnant women, improving maternal and child health outcomes.  

– Nutrition and Climate: Supporting drought-resistant crops and climate-smart agriculture techniques, ensuring food security despite climate challenges.  

Want to learn more about integration?

If you would like to learn more about why integration is key in addressing child health, you could take the WASH and Nutrition Nexus course.
This free 2.5 hour course unpacks how water, sanitation and nutrition are deeply interconnected. Learn how integrated approaches improve child health outcomes, and why they’re essential for impact that lasts.

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From the yellow, to the green zone

Rubina's story Read article

Rubina Begum lives in Chalitabunia village in Patuakhali, Bangladesh. Her first child is 6 months old. His name is Hasib. Rubina is so happy since the pregnancy and birth of her child. She signed up for growth monitoring.

Soon after, Rubina participated in a courtyard meeting about stunting. Her son’s height and weight were measured in the session. The results were not good. Hasib was in the yellow zone in both height and weight charts. Rubina became very concerned. She heard from the meeting that it is possible to change this within the first 1,000 days of a child’s life (from pregnancy to 2 years).

Rubina took steps immediately: washing her hands with soap and water before feeding her child and after cleaning his bottom. Washing the  family’s clothes and sheets regularly. Cleaning her baby’s hands and trying to keep him from putting dirty objects into his mouth.

Since then, Hasib has moved from the yellow zone to the green zone on the growth charts. Rubina is now quite happy. She will continue monitoring Hasib’s growth through visits to the nearest health clinic.