Advocate for investment allocations for social services to be nutrition sensitive (including health, agriculture, education, and social protection).
Description
Overarching commitment (for commitments submitted pre-2025)
Title
National development strategy
Description
The government of Zimbabwe has made significant strides in addressing malnutrition and improving agriculture and food systems. In 2014, Zimbabwe made Nutrition for Growth commitments that were based on its finances, policy and programmes. Reflecting on Zimbabwe’s previous commitments and guided by its existing national strategic direction, the government of Zimbabwe commits to the following:
• Reduce the prevalence of stunting in children under 5 years of age from 23.5% to 17.0% by 2025.
• Increase public health expenditure per capita from US$30.29 in 2020 to US$86 by 2025.
• Advocate for investment allocations for social services to be nutrition sensitive.
• Reduce the prevalence of iron deficiency anaemia amongst women of childbearing age (15–49 years of age) from 27% to 13% by 2025.
• Ensure multisectoral and multi-stakeholder policy implementation structures remain active and are accountable for implementation and monitoring and evaluation of the nutrition response.
• Avail food and nutrition security and surveillance information to inform policy, programming and monitoring and evaluation.
• Review and enforce existing food- and nutrition-related legal instruments and establish new ones where required.
• Operationalise a costed MFNSS with an accompanying monitoring and evaluation framework.
• Implement the government’s commitments in the food systems transformation pathways framework.
• Support community demand-generation and social accountability on prevailing livelihoods and food and nutrition security. This will increase community involvement in the problem-solving matrix, which can help in resilience and sustainability issues.
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
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| Nutrition Action Classification(s) |
Enabling >
Leadership and governance
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Measurement
| Key indicator | Percent allocation and disbursement of funds across line ministries and programmes |
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| Measurement plan | Collect own data |
| Value | Measurement date | |
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| Baseline | failure to undertake a nutrition budget analaysis for the baseyear. Proxy baseline: A total of 39 budget lines were identified to be contributing towards nutrition in the 2020 budget, the budget lines drop from 45 lines that were identified in 2019 | 2019 |
| Target | 10% | December 2025 |
Progress
| Value | Measurement date | Status | |
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| Progress report |
Progress not able to be assessed
Despite the commitment maker’s active participation in the process, they were unable to provide the required information about the baseline data or the progress indicator’s updated (latest) level or status.
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