To reduce stunting prevalence in children from the current 37% to 25% by 2025.
Description
-Enhancing Capacity of Caregivers to ensure optimal nutrition in the first 1000 days of life
-Enhancing Provision of Quality Health Services to prevent and manage nutrition related diseases and micronutrient deficiencies
-Improving capacity to address food and nutrition insecurity problems as well as provide a conducive macroeconomic environment for improved nutrition status
-Raising Awareness of the Problem of Malnutrition through activities that will promote positive behaviour change and lifestyle through advocacy, communication and social mobilization
-Ensuring budget allocation, timely release and utilization as well as strengthening 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 2021N4G summit
Description
IMPACT
i. To reduce stunting prevalence in children from the current 37% to 25% by 2025.
Policy
POLICY
ii. To integrate and prioritize nutrition in the Medium- Term Expenditure Framework (MTEF-FSP) by 2022.
PROGRAMMATIC
iii. Develop regular annual priority actions for the National multisectoral plan of action on food and Nutrition and ensure implementation till 2025
FINANCIAL
iv. Nigeria has committed to the implementation of the World Bank assisted multisectoral Accelerating Nutrition Results (ANRIN) project through a $232 million credit Facility. This is to increase the utilization of quality, cost effective nutrition services for pregnant and lactating women, adolescent girls and children under five years by 2023.
v. Nigeria has created a budget line for nutrition in the Federal Ministry of Health. Since 2017, we have committed a total of USD 5 million for the procurement of Ready-to-Use Therapeutic Food (RUTF) for the treatment of Severe Acute Malnutrition. We shall sustain this commitment till 2023.
GNR assessment
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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) |
Impact >
Undernutrition
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Measurement
| Key indicator | Prevalence of stunting among children under five |
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| Value | Measurement date | |
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| Baseline | 37% | 2018 |
| Target | 25% |
