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Combating Child Mortality among Batwa (CCMB)

last updated Aug 17, 2012

Overview

Implementing organization: 
Care
Implementation Partner(s): 
Rugarama and Mutolere hospitals for outreach clinics and treatment of severely malnourished children; and Bwindi Mgahinga Conservation Trust (BMCT) or the Batwa Development Program (BDP) to take a lead in the resettlement process.
Legal Status: 
Private (not-for-profit)
Year Launched: 
2008
Income Level of Target Population: 
Bottom 20%

Funding

Primary Source of Funding: 
Donor
Funders: 
Care Denmark

Scale

Number of Clients Served: 
Approximately 20 Batwa Communities
Summary: 

Combating Child Mortality among Batwa (CCMB) is a CARE implemented project that operates among the Batwa community with efforts geared towards reducing child morbidity in Kisoro and Kabale districts.

Program goals/rationale: 

The Batwa are an ethnic minority living in remote parts of South-western Uganda where they were expelled from their ancestral forests. Some stay in small settlements but many are to this day landless and score very poorly on all poverty and development indicators, with an extremely high children-below-five mortality.

The Combating Child Mortality among the Batwa (CCMB) project was launched to resolve child health and family livelihoods situations as well as curb child morbidity and mortality among the Batwa.

Key program components: 

CCMB undertakes activities that include training of Batwa Village Health Team (VHT) members, drama performances, the conduction of outreach clinics, Conditional Benefits Distribution (CBD) of inputs and assets, treatment of severely malnourished children, and the holding of government and private health centre staff accountable towards the Batwa community in the conduction of their services.

Program history: 

The Batwa are an ethnic minority living in remote parts of South-western Uganda where they were expelled from their ancestral forests. Some stay in small settlements but many are to this day landless and score very poorly on all poverty and development indicators, with an extremely high children-below-five mortality.

The Combating Child Mortality among the Batwa (CCMB) project was launched to resolve child health and family livelihoods situations as well as curb child morbidity and mortality among the Batwa.

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