{"id":37332,"date":"2018-04-19T09:58:02","date_gmt":"2018-04-19T09:58:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/gor-world-bank-sign-23-million-additional\/"},"modified":"2018-04-21T18:52:44","modified_gmt":"2018-04-21T18:52:44","slug":"gor-world-bank-sign-23-million-additional","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/gor-world-bank-sign-23-million-additional\/","title":{"rendered":"GoR, World Bank sign $23 million additional financing to curb malnutrition among children"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The agreement was signed yesterday in Washington DC between the Minister of Finance and Economic Planning Dr. Uzziel Ndagijimana and the World Bank Vice President for the African Region Makhtar Diop.<\/p>\n<p>The event took place on the sidelines of the ongoing Spring Meetings in Washington DC.<\/p>\n<p>Through the Nutrition Sensitive Direct Support (NSDS), this additional financing for the Rwanda Strengthening Social Protection Project will provide cash transfers to vulnerable families to incentivize the use of health and nutrition services, strengthen their knowledge on better parenting and child care, and support Rwanda\u2019s Civil Registration and Vital Statistics in the development of a clear road map for effective implementation. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cGiven its long-term negative effects on human capital development and poverty eradication, stunting is high on the government of Rwanda\u2019s political and development agenda. We are very grateful to all of you who are contributing to this effort,\u201d said Minister Ndagijimana.<\/p>\n<p>The Government of Rwanda, in partnership with the World Bank, The Power of Nutrition, and the Global Financing Facility (GFF), has developed an integrated program to combat chronic malnutrition, with a focus on high-stunting districts, vulnerable populations, and the critical 1,000 days beyond which stunting becomes largely irreversible.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI would like to congratulate the Government of Rwanda on setting these ambitious targets and its commitment to fight chronic malnutrition and invest in human capital. The World Bank Group will continue to work with Rwanda to scale up the program nationally bend the curve on stunting,\u201d World Bank\u2019s Makhtar Diop said.<\/p>\n<p>The Power of Nutrition is investing $35 million into the overall Program, of which $15 million is part of the additional financing signed yesterday, while the remaining $8 million is from the Global Financing Facility which contributes $18 million into the overall program.<\/p>\n<p>The Strengthening Social Protection Project was approved in December 2017 to help the Government of Rwanda improve the effectiveness of Rwanda\u2019s social protection system, notably the flagship Vision 2020 Umurenge Program (VUP), for targeted vulnerable groups. <\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-24839 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/minisitiri_dr_ndagijimana_na_diop_bashyira_umukono_ku_masezerano_y_amafaranga_y_inyongera_yo_gufasha_mu_kurwanya_imirire-05586.jpg\" alt=\"The Minister of Finance and Economic Planning Dr. Uzziel Ndagijimana and the World Bank Vice President for the African Region Makhtar Diop sign financing agreement yesterday\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Government of Rwanda and World Bank have signed a $23 million (about Rwf19 billion) additional financing agreement to help reduce the stunting rates among children under the age of five and thirteen in Rwanda\u2019s highest stunting districts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-37332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","byline-igihe"],"bylines":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"contributors":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37332","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37332"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37332\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37332"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=37332"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=37332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}