WCD ministry and Gates Foundation sign MoC

NEW DELHI: The ministry of women and child development and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation signed a Memorandum of Cooperation (MoC) today to provide technical support at the National and State level for strengthening the delivery of nutrition goals, especially during pre-conception, pregnancy and first two years of life. Further, the Gates' Foundation will support an enhanced framework of collaboration in Information and Communication Technology enabled Real Time Monitoring (ICT-RTM) of Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS) and technical support on nutrition.

The MoC was signed by V. Somasundaran , secretary, ministry of women & child development and Nachiket Mor , country director, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation in the presence of minister Maneka Sanjay Gandhi in New Delhi today.



Improving the health and lives of women and children in India, by strengthening nutrition programs in order to promote their holistic development is one of the topmost priorities of the Government. In sync with this focus, the four priority areas of work as part of this MoC would include: