USAID Advancing Nutrition worked in Burkina Faso from November 2020 to October 2023. Collaborating with the Government of Burkina Faso and other key stakeholders, the project worked to improve results-based planning for targeted nutrition results. This was accomplished by building knowledge, strengthening capacity, and improving access to existing information about the drivers of undernutrition and information about best practices in Burkina Faso. In South West, Center West, and Center East regions, we—strengthened institutional capacity of the Government of Burkina Faso and stakeholders for
USAID Advancing Nutrition worked in Niger from November 2020 to October 2023. To reduce both the prevalence of anemia among women of reproductive age and adolescents, and the vitamin A deficiency among children under 5, the project supported existing USAID nutrition investments, the Government of Niger, and United Nations partners. We provided technical assistance aimed at strengthening iron-folic acid and vitamin A treatment and prevention services within health facilities and community-level platforms in USAID’s RISE II zones of intervention. In one district in Maradi and two districts in