Overview
BHF believes that adequate nutrition is the cornerstone of effective health programming. BHF aims to develop and implement practical solutions to food and nutrition challenges in the Busoga sub-region and beyond. Solving nutrition challenges requires advanced application of nutrition-specific and nutrition-sensitive interventions, as well as intensive strengthening of our partners’ capacity to apply effective interventions at scale. BHF’s systems-based approach, informed by the WHO guidelines is grounded in BHF’s superior technical expertise coupled with BHF’s strong use of analytics and data, and our innovative strategies to dismantle barriers to change found in Busoga systems and community behaviours.
Our Approach
In addition, BHF implements a comprehensive and client-centered approach in the management and promotion of good nutrition for adults and children. BHF integrates nutrition components within HIV and AIDS care and treatment and designs holistic programs for mothers, newborns, and children. Further, BHF work addresses clinical management and community health worker performance and support. That is, BHF help provide services and support for micronutrient supplementation, breastfeeding, complementary feeding, growth monitoring and promotion for children, nutrition status screening and nutrition assessment, counseling and support (NACS), emergency and therapeutic nutrition, food fortification, and food-based dietary diversity.
