The health of mothers and children is interrelated and affected by multiple factors. Millions of pregnant women, new mothers, and children experience severe illness or death each year, largely from preventable or treatable causes. Many of our children and young people are not getting the nutrition they need, which is undermining their capacity to grow, develop and learn to their full potential. To increase nutrition status of children and young women, Plan India works towards enabling children, adolescent girls and young women to realize their right to nutrition and food by strengthening the systems, influencing policies to enhance their focus on health and nutrition as a human development issue. This program ensures optimal health and nutrition throughout the life cycle children, particularly girls and women through positive health seeking behaviors and practices, transforming social and gender norms and provision of easily accessible quality health and nutrition services.