[{"bbox": [86, 153, 400, 184], "category": "Section-header", "text": "3.5 The Intervention Logic"}, {"bbox": [96, 199, 1162, 582], "category": "Text", "text": "The underlying intervention logic for this action is that the Action will combine and connect the rights and needs of young children with those of female adolescents in vulnerable situation. It will support multi-sectorial and integrated interventions (education, health, nutrition and protection) that will place the child/adolescent girl at the centre and ensure they receive all the services they need to thrive. The child needs balanced nutrition, nurturing parents, good health and stimulating early education to fully realise their development potential and build strong life learning foundations. An adolescent girl needs quality education, incentives to remain in school, access to reproductive health and freedom from (protection from) the risks of HIV, early pregnancy, Gender Based Violence and low self-esteem. The Action will adopt a dual approach by strengthening early education and health systems that target children and young female adolescents, and by enhancing service provision. Strengthening early childhood development (ECD), including health, nutrition, and early education (ECE) systems, aims at improving efficiency in governance and coordination at national and sub-national level. This life-cycle approach, which connects the rights and needs of the young child with those of female adolescents in vulnerable situation, serves to reinforce the rationale behind the proposed programme interventions set out in this section of the report. A life-cycle framework is adopted beginning with children between birth to 8 years³⁹ and the female adolescents (10-19 years⁴⁰)."}, {"bbox": [96, 598, 1162, 871], "category": "Text", "text": "Human development is key to economic growth and stability through the achievement of a well-educated, highly skilled and healthy labour force and to propel Zambia towards becoming the thriving and industrialised nation of its Vision 2030, to which Action's Overall Objective is aligned. The 8NDP aims to focus on increasing access to, and improving the quality of education, nutrition, health and water and sanitation, as well as enhancing social protection. This will further contribute to the reduction in poverty and inequality. The 8NDP provides a strong lead in promoting a multi-sectoral approach to integrated early years development and links this to the other national priority of keeping girls in school. Along the lines of the 8NDP, the two Specific Objectives of this Action translate two complementary approaches achieve this goal: strengthening and improving the existing systems (SO1) and improving service provision in the social sectors (SO2). To cement the first two objectives, the action will strengthen coordination across government systems to enhance the effectiveness of integrated service delivery to young children and to female adolescents (SO3)."}, {"bbox": [96, 882, 1162, 1130], "category": "Text", "text": "Under the Specific Objective 1, the Action will contribute both through strengthening individual sector-related systems and through encouraging and stimulating coordination and cooperative work under an integrated approach to education – health – nutrition – social protection. The Action also aims to strengthen both formal and informal systems, targeting governmental and non-governmental established structures, and also informal structures and setups at the level of communities. Through not only targeting central and local administrations but also community based systems, traditional structures, and even private systems, the Action aims to reach out to the grassroots-level beneficiaries through as many channels as possible, increasing both the effectiveness and the efficiency of activities. Through the EO 1.3, the programme seeks to embed a transformative approach to women protection and empowerment within the wide range of its activities as a sine qua non condition for reducing societal inequalities."}, {"bbox": [96, 1146, 1162, 1447], "category": "Text", "text": "The expected results under the Specific Objective 2 will contribute to improving the social services provisions through improving critical health, WASH and education-related infrastructure and equipment: adapting existing infrastructure and equipment to the needs that have arisen under the free education reform (e.g. high increase in attendance) and to respond to the hygiene needs adapted to the two categories of beneficiaries (children 0-8) and adolescent girls (adapted ablution blocks and hygiene facilities for the respective age categories, for an appropriate management of menstrual hygiene, etc.). In addition to the necessary hardware elements to improving social services delivery, a “soft” approach will also be adopted – mainly related to improving approaches, quality and integration of various elements under the education – health – nutrition – protection nexus for inclusive, holistic and efficient service provision. More particularly, the service provision needs to be of a highly transformative nature when it comes to adolescent girls: reducing the very high maternal mortality, prevalence of teen pregnancies, SGBV of HIV infections and child marriages – can only be done through an integrated approach that takes into account all aspects of teenage development by specific and well adapted structures."}, {"bbox": [96, 1463, 1162, 1543], "category": "Text", "text": "The expected results under the Specific Objective 3 will aim to system strengthening and increasing efficiency and efficacy of service provision by duty bearers, through improving data collection, M&E systems, supervision and coordination at national and local level."}, {"bbox": [1027, 1681, 1145, 1706], "category": "Page-footer", "text": "Page 22 of 34"}]