Create a National Multisectoral Nutrition Development Programme

From 2025, by 2027, the Government of Cameroon is committed to institutionalizing a National Multisectoral Nutrition Development Program.

This Program, as a multisectoral body, will be in charge of coordinating the implementation of Nutrition Development actions at the strategic and decentralized level, through its various branches and technical committees, and in particular coordinating the implementation of the Costé Multisectoral Nutrition Development Plan 2024-2030. It will work in collaboration with all sectors, development partners, civil society organizations and the private sector. The methodological approach to the development of the organic text will consist of the establishment during the first half of 2025, of a multisectoral Taskforce in charge of the development of the draft text on the creation, organization and functioning of this body, under the coordination of the Technical Secretariat of the Interministerial Committee for the Fight against Malnutrition in Cameroon, which will ensure the lead. Work on the first draft of the organic text will begin in 2025. The copy will be returned at the end of October 2025 and sent to the High Hierarchy for approval. Advocacy actions will be carried out until the signing of the regulatory act to show the relevance and interest for Cameroon in having this structure.

The main indicator will be the regulatory act on the creation, organization and operation of the national multisectoral nutrition development programme, including the sources of funding for the programme adopted. The other indicators will relate to the act appointing the persons responsible for the said programme at different levels; the number of multisectoral coordination sessions (4/year) and the budget allocated to the programme (annual amount / share of the national budget allocated to the programme dedicated to nutrition interventions).