Advocate with mayors to allocate specific budget lines for health promotion and during the municipal councils the mayors dedicated amounts for health promotion and nutrition in each commune
Description
This intervention involves advocating to increase the number of locally elected councils that commit to putting 1% of the council budget towards nutrition activities.
Overarching commitment (for commitments submitted pre-2025)
Title
Nurturing local governance of health promotion and nutrition in the Covid-19 era
Description
The aim of this commitment is to accelerate local nutrition governance by engaging Cameroon's mayors to commit 1% of their local council's budget to supporting nutrition-specific interventions, thus fostering local governance in the area of health promotion in the municipalities. There are 23 beneficiary communes from Adamaoua, East and West Regions for this local governance project: 4 from East Region, 5 from Adamaoua Region and 14 from West Region. All the communes in Adamaoua and East Regions have allocated between 2% and 10% of their annual budget to health and nutrition promotion.
GNR assessment
| Verification status |
Verified
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| SMARTness index |
High
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Details
| Target population characteristic |
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| Global nutrition target(s) |
Exclusive breastfeeding
Childhood stunting
Childhood wasting
Childhood overweight
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| Nutrition Action Classification(s) |
Enabling >
Financial
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Measurement
| Key indicator | Amount committed by the mayor in the council budget |
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| Measurement plan | Collect own data |
| Value | Measurement date | |
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| Baseline | CFA 80,000,000 | 2020 |
| Target | CFA 1,493,700,800 | January 2022 |
