Reduce the prevalence of under-five stunting from 23.5% to 17% by 2025
Description
This commitment will be fulfilled through:
• Operationalising the national Multisectoral Food and Nutrition Security Strategy (MFNSS) 2021–2025.
• Scaling up nutrition-sensitive and nutrition-specific interventions.
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
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Verified
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| SMARTness index |
High
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Details
| Target population characteristic |
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| Global nutrition target(s) |
Anaemia
Low birth weight
Adult obesity
Exclusive breastfeeding
Childhood stunting
Childhood wasting
Childhood overweight
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Impact >
Undernutrition
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Measurement
| Key indicator | Prevalence of stunting in children aged under 5 years |
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| Measurement plan | Collect own data |
| Value | Measurement date | |
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| Baseline | 23.5% | 2020 |
| Target | 17% | December 2025 |
Progress
| Value | Measurement date | Status | |
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| Progress report | 24.6% | March 2024 |
Off Course
The reported progress indicates that the expected level thus far had not yet been achieved and is not expected to be achieved by the end date, but as the end date is not yet reached, it could be still be possible to reach and maintain the target level.
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