Commitment

Adopt legislation on the marketing of breast-milk substitutes by 2025.

Government / Mali

January 2021 — December 2025

Description

The legislative and regulatory framework is critical for the marketing of breast milk substitutes.

Overarching commitment (for commitments submitted pre-2025)

Title

Programme and policy funding

Description

• Mali is committed to mobilising financial resources of up to 600 million FCFA each year for the purchase of ready-to-use therapeutic food.

• Mali pledges to fund 15% of the new 2021–2025 Plan d’Action Multisectoriel de la Nutrition (Multisectoral Nutrition Action Plan).

• Mali is committed to mobilising financial resources for nutrition through innovative mechanisms, such as the Global Financing Facility (GFF) and the UN’s UNITLIFE initiative, by 2025.

• Mali is committed to reducing the prevalence of chronic malnutrition to below 20% by 2025.

• Mali is committed to mainstreaming nutrition into strategic development policies and plans, such as the Strategic Framework for Economic Recovery and Sustainable Development and the Ten-Year Economic, Social and Cultural Development Plan, by 2025.

• Mali is committed to adopting legislation on the marketing of breast milk substitutes.

• Mali pledges to include the right to food and nutrition as a constitutional right in the next constitutional referendum.

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Verification status
Unverified
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Details

Target population characteristic
  • Age or life course stage/status
  • Gender identity
Global nutrition target(s)
Anaemia
Childhood wasting
Childhood overweight
Low birth weight
Exclusive breastfeeding
Childhood stunting
Nutrition Action Classification(s)
Policy > Food environment
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Linked event(s)
  • 2021 UN Food Systems Summit
  • 2021 Tokyo N4G Summit
N4G Summit theme(s)
  • Food systems
  • Health
  • Resilience
  • Data
  • Financing

Measurement

Key indicator Prevalence of stunted children under 5 years of age
Measurement plan Collect own data
Value Measurement date
Baseline 23.6% 2020
Target 20% December 2025

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