Promotion of breast milk feeding for infants 0-24 months among 1,200 working mothers in 2023.
Description
This commitment will be fulfilled through the provision of on-demand nutrition education and counselling services to pregnant women and mothers 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
| Target population characteristic |
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| Global nutrition target(s) |
Adult obesity
Salt/sodium intake
Raised blood pressure
Childhood overweight
Exclusive breastfeeding
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| Nutrition Action Classification(s) |
Policy >
Nutrition care services
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Measurement
| Key indicator | Number of working lactating mothers receiving on-demand nutrition counselling |
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| Measurement plan | Collect own data |
| Value | Measurement date | |
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| Baseline | 0 Mothers | 2021 |
| Target | 1,200 Mothers | December 2024 |
Progress
| Value | Measurement date | Status | |
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| Progress report | 2 mothers | December 2024 |
Not Reached
The target was not achieved by its end date.
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