Commitment

Increase percentage (%) of primary healthcare facilities scoring at least 65% on the Quality Checklist in participating local government units (LGUs)

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
Lower moderate
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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 > Operational
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Linked event(s)
  • 2021 Tokyo N4G Summit
N4G Summit theme(s)
  • Food systems
  • Health
  • Resilience

Measurement

Key indicator Percentage of primary healthcare facilities scoring at least 65% on the Quality Checklist in participating local government units
Measurement plan Collect own data
Value Measurement date
Baseline to be determined 2021
Target 20% December 2025

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