Commitment
Increase percentage (%) of children, 6-23 months of age, in project areas who meet age-appropriate minimum adequate diet (MAD)
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 |
Partially verified
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| SMARTness index |
Lower moderate
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Details
| Target population characteristic |
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| 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
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| Nutrition Action Classification(s) |
Impact >
Diet
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Measurement
| Key indicator | Percentage of children aged 6–23 months who meet age-appropriate minimum adequate diet |
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| Measurement plan | Collect own data |
| Value | Measurement date | |
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| Baseline | 9% | 2019 |
| Target | 20% | December 2025 |
