Rural Water Supply and Sanitation Partnership NEWS BRIEF #46

Activities of the RWSSPs Coordination Unit
RWSSP five-year strategic plan and annual work plan for 2011 Implementing the Decision no. 3205/Q?-BNN-HTQT issued on 26 Nov.2010 by the Minister of MARD on the extension of RWSSP, the RWSSP Coordination Unit signed contract with an international consultant to the Draft RWSSP five year strategic framework and 2011
annual work plan.

The problem of maternal and child undernutrition in developing countries

More than 3.5 million mothers and children under five die unnecessarily each year due to the underlying cause of undernutrition, and millions more are permanently disabled by the physical and mental effects of a poor dietary intake in the earliest months of life.