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
Advocate to increase the number of local elected councils that commit to put 1% of the council budget on Nutrition activities
Overarching commitment (for commitments submitted pre-2025)
Title
Nurturing Local Governance of Health Promotion and Nutrition in Covid-19 Era
Description
Accelerate Local Nutrition Governance by engaging Cameroon's mayors to commit 1% of their local council's budget to support Nutrition Specific Interventions.
The aim of this commitment is to foster local governance in the area of health promotion in the municipalities.
The beneficiary communes are 23 in number, divided into four target regions.
Adamaoua, East and West are the beneficiary regions of this local governance project.
The East region has four (04), the Adamaoua region has five communes and the West region has fourteen communes.
All the communes in the 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
| 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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| Value | Measurement date | |
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| Baseline | CFA 80,000,000 | 2020 |
| Target | CFA 1,493,700,800 |
