Description
A national day of nutrition and food will be organized each year from 2024 to 2025
Overarching commitment (for commitments submitted pre-2025)
Title
National day of nutrition and food
Description
Establishment of a national nutrition day: to make nutrition actions visible and to strengthen advocacy according to a multisectoral and multi-actor approach
- Investing in nutrition is to contribute considerably to the development of the country, to reduce household poverty, to create new generations in good health and with the capacity to produce
- Organizing a national nutrition day allows to raise awareness on the best nutritional habits and the stakes of nutrition in the family's well-being, as well as in the community's development
- It is an opportunity to strengthen collaboration between actors and the role that each one has to play (government institutions, UN agencies, civil society, private sector, communities) so that everyone, especially the most vulnerable, can have access to healthy nutrition.
- It is an opportunity to share good practices in nutrition and to stimulate research.
GNR assessment
| Verification status |
Partially verified
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| SMARTness index |
High
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Details
| Global nutrition target(s) |
Anaemia
Low birth weight
Exclusive breastfeeding
Childhood stunting
Childhood wasting
Childhood overweight
Adult obesity
Adult diabetes
Raised blood pressure
Salt/sodium intake
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| Nutrition Action Classification(s) |
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Consumer knowledge
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Measurement
| Key indicator | Establishment of national day of nutrition and food |
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| Value | Measurement date | |
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| Baseline | No | 2023 |
| Target | Yes | December 2025 |
Progress
| Value | Measurement date | |
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| Progress report | No Progress | July 2024 |
