Enforce existing legal instruments and establish new ones as per need

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 finance, policy and programmes. Reflecting on the previous commitments and guided by existing national strategic direction, the Government of Zimbabwe commit to the following:

1. Reduce the prevalence of stunting in children under-five years from 23.5% to 17% by 2025.

2. Increase Public Health Expenditure Per Capita from USD$30.29 in 2020 to USD$86 by 2025.

3. Advocate for investment allocations for social services to be nutrition sensitive.

4. Reduce the prevalence of iron deficiency anaemia among women of childbearing age (15-49 years) from 27% to 13% by 2025.

5. Ensure multi-sectoral and multi-stakeholder policy implementation structures remain active and are accountable for implementation, monitoring and evaluation of nutrition response.

6. Avail food and nutrition security information and surveillance to inform policy, programming and Monitoring and Evaluation.

7. Review and enforce existing food and nutrition related legal instruments and establish new ones where required.

8. Operationalise a costed Multisectoral FNS Strategy with accompanying M and E framework

9. Implement the government’s commitments in the Food Systems Transformation pathways framework

10. Support community demand-generation and social accountability on prevailing livelihoods, food and nutrition security. This will increase the community involvement in being part of the problem solving matrix which can help in resilience and sustainability issues.