Support community demand-generation and social accountability on prevailing livelihoods, food and nutrition security

National development strategy

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.