Commitment

Increase the number of barangays with updated nutrition information on the status of households with pregnant and lactating women and children under 5 years old

Government / Philippines

January 2022 — December 2025

Description

This commitment will be fulfilled through implementation of the Philippine Multisectoral Nutrition Project (PMNP).

Overarching commitment (for commitments submitted pre-2025)

Title

Ensuring nutrition adequacy

Description

The government of the Philippines commits to achieve this goal by 2025, by increasing the utilisation of nutrition-specific and nutrition-sensitive interventions, improving key nutrition behaviours known to reduce stunting in targeted regions and implementing the proposed PMNP. The PMNP, which will start in 2022 and end in 2025, will strengthen the delivery of nutrition interventions and primary health services, facilitate community-based nutrition service delivery and multisectoral nutrition convergence, and strengthen the government's monitoring, evaluation and communication.

GNR assessment

Verification status
Verified
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SMARTness index

Details

Global nutrition target(s)
Anaemia
Low birth weight
Exclusive breastfeeding
Childhood stunting
Childhood wasting
Childhood overweight
Adult obesity
Adult diabetes
Raised blood pressure
Salt/sodium intake
Nutrition Action Classification(s)
Enabling > Research, monitoring and data
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Linked event(s)
  • 2021 Tokyo N4G Summit
N4G Summit theme(s)
  • Food systems
  • Health
  • Resilience

Measurement

Key indicator Number of barangays with updated nutrition information on the status of households with pregnant and lactating women and children under 5 years of age
Measurement plan Collect own data
Value Measurement date
Baseline 0 Barangays 2021
Target 3,382 Barangays December 2025

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