Management of overweight and obesity among 600 children and adults.
Description
This commitment will be fulfilled through the provision of on-demand nutrition education and counselling services to persons referred from health facilities in central Uganda by utilising the Lya Mobile App.
Overarching commitment (for commitments submitted pre-2025)
Title
Easy and sustainable healthy eating
Description
• Development of an in-app database with over 100 practical pictures of healthy meals.
• Conduct of a nutrition assessment for 100 persons monthly.
• Provision of self-paced, on-demand nutrition education on the mobile application.
• Provision of individual behaviour counselling for 100 persons monthly.
• Implementation of the following for the 100 monthly app users: monitoring and evaluation of nutrition outcomes three weeks, three months and six months into the intervention and one year after the intervention; management of anaemia; management of overweight and obesity; blood glucose control; blood pressure control; and promotion of breast milk feeding for infants aged 0–24 months.
GNR assessment
| Verification status |
Verified
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| SMARTness index |
High
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Details
| Global nutrition target(s) |
Exclusive breastfeeding
Childhood overweight
Adult obesity
Raised blood pressure
Salt/sodium intake
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| Nutrition Action Classification(s) |
Policy >
Nutrition care services
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Measurement
| Key indicator | Number of overweight and obese clients who achieve their healthy weight by the end of an active intervention AND number of persons who sustain their healthy weight one year after the intervention |
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| Measurement plan | Collect own data |
| Value | Measurement date | |
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| Baseline | 0 Clients | 2021 |
| Target | 600 Clients | December 2024 |
Progress
| Value | Measurement date | Status | |
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| Progress report | 1 clients | December 2023 |
Off Course
Given the current trajectory, the target is off course to be met by the end date.
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