To reduce stunting prevalence in children from the current 37% to 25% by 2025.
Description
• Enhance the capacity of care-givers to ensure optimal nutrition in the first 1,000 days of life.
• Enhance the provision of quality health services to prevent and manage nutrition-related diseases and micronutrient deficiencies.
• Improve the capacity to address food and nutrition insecurity problems as well as provide a conducive macro-economic environment for improved nutrition status.
• Raise awareness of the problem of malnutrition through activities that will promote positive behaviour change and lifestyle through advocacy, communication and social mobilisation.
• Ensure budget allocation, timely release and utilisation of funds as well as strengthen the coordination capacity of the institutions and personnel responsible for policy and programme coordination.
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
| Target population characteristic |
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| Global nutrition target(s) |
Childhood stunting
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| Nutrition Action Classification(s) |
Impact >
Undernutrition
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Measurement
| Key indicator | Prevalence of stunting among children under 5 years of age |
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| Measurement plan | Collect own data |
| Value | Measurement date | |
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| Baseline | 37% | 2018 |
| Target | 25% | December 2025 |
