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Ethiopia's Bold Push to End Stunting

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Show Notes

In this episode, you’ll hear from Dr. Sisay Sinamo Boltena, Senior Program Manager for Ethiopia’s Seqota Declaration—a pioneering initiative to end stunting through integrated, multi-sectoral action.

Dr. Sisay reflects on: -What it takes to turn bold national commitments into coordinated action across ministries -The challenges and lessons from Ethiopia’s journey so far -What it really means to scale integration nationwide—and the systems being built to sustain it

This podcast was recorded for the online course 'WASH and Nutrition Nexus: The basics'.

The objective of the online course is to provide knowledge and skills on practical tools to create better more impactful integrated interventions together.

The online course has been created by IRC in collaboration with the Max Foundation, the Healthy Consortium Ethiopia, Plan International, the Seqota Declaration Programme Ethiopia, the Government of Ethiopia and the Right2Grow.

To access this free course of 2.5 hours go to: www.washsystemsacademy.org

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