To integrate and prioritize nutrition in the Medium- Term Expenditure Framework (MTEF-FSP) by 2022.
Description
A planning process involving a wide range of stakeholders will be adopted to harvest inputs for integrating nutrition into the Medium-Term Expenditure Framework.
Evidence-based assessments will be used in developing the various segments of the framework.
Overarching commitment (for commitments submitted pre-2025)
Title
Nigeria's commitments for the 2021 N4G Summit
Description
Impact
1. To reduce the prevalence of stunting in children from the current 37% to 25% by 2025.
Policy
2. To integrate and prioritise nutrition in the Medium-Term Expenditure Framework (MTEF) by 2022.
Programmatic
3. To develop and implement regular, annual priority actions for the National Multisectoral Plan of Action on Food and Nutrition until 2025.
Financial
4. Nigeria has committed to implementing the World Bank-assisted multisectoral Accelerating Nutrition Results (ANRIN) project through a US$232 million credit facility. This is to increase the utilisation of quality, cost-effective nutrition services for pregnant and lactating women, adolescent girls and children under 5 years of age by 2023.
5. Nigeria has created a budget line for nutrition in the Federal Ministry of Health. Since 2017, we have committed a total of US$5 million for procuring ready-to-use therapeutic food (RUTF) for treating severe acute malnutrition. We shall sustain this commitment until 2023.
GNR assessment
| Verification status |
Unverified
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| SMARTness index |
High
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Details
| Global nutrition target(s) |
Childhood stunting
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| Nutrition Action Classification(s) |
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Leadership and governance
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Measurement
| Key indicator | Inclusion of nutrition in the Medium-Term Expenditure Framework |
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| Measurement plan | Collect own data |
| Value | Measurement date | |
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| Baseline | No | 2021 |
| Target | Yes | December 2022 |
