Globally, one in five children does not receive their full course of immunizations, leaving them at risk of preventable disease. In Ethiopia, the situation is even worse, with a national average of only 37% coverage for pentavalent 3 (penta 3) vaccination, where 13% of infants received no vaccines at all.

In 2020, the IRC and the Lebanon Protection consortium (LPC) partnered to explore the linkage between food insecurity and child labor, and its recent evolution in Lebanon given the multiple crises that hit the country and the deteriorating overall environment.

This report describes the implementation and evaluation of the “Fifth Child Project” to increase the use of immunization and perinatal services in northwestern Ethiopia.