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As countries refine their poverty reduction strategies, the role of human capital, including health and nutrition, is receiving considerable attention. People become poorer as a result of bad health or health crises, but being poor also makes people less healthy and more exposed to risk.Projects are tools used in all countries and organizations to achieve specific short-term goals. In health, they provide a means of developing targeted interventions to reach the poor or to address specific health problems and to prove that the interventions succeed at reasonable cost. (Au)