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First 1,000 Days
Pregnancy → Birth → Newborn → Infancy → 24 months.
Flagship life-course program
An integrated continuum rather than disconnected services.
Pregnancy
- ANC linkage and follow-up
- Birth preparedness
- Maternal nutrition
- Malaria prevention
- Danger-sign education
- Family and partner engagement
- Preparation for PNC
- Maternal mental-health identification and referral
Birth & newborn
- Facility-delivery linkage
- Newborn-care education
- Breastfeeding support
- Danger-sign recognition
- PNC
- Immunization
- Referral
6–24 months
- Breastfeeding
- Complementary feeding
- Nutrition
- Immunization
- Growth monitoring
- Illness care-seeking
- Child development
- Caregiver education
- Disability/development referral
Cross-cutting themes
Adolescents · Nutrition · Mental health · Disability & development
These themes can become larger standalone projects when evidence and funding justify them.