Increased detection and monitoring of childhood overweight

The National Directorate of CEN-CINAI is committed to increasing the number of detections and follow-up of children under 5 years of age in conditions of poverty and/or social risk who receive CEN-CINAI services at the national level and who have an overweight nutritional status, according to anthropometric indicators and the reference standards established in national regulations.

This will be achieved through the strengthening of the institutional procedure for interdisciplinary care with a public health approach, technical assistance, monitoring and follow-up of the implementation of the procedure. The growth surveillance system will also be strengthened, with the acquisition and maintenance of a system in compliance with the technical requirements established to guarantee the quality of the measurements, the modelling of the technique of taking anthropometric measurements and the implementation of data collection and analysis in the digital system.

The commitment includes specific annual allocations of funds within the allocated government budget. This commitment is aligned with the country's priorities in terms of nutrition and health, linked to the SDGs.

Progress will be reviewed every two years to ensure timely detection and follow-up through results-based strategic decision-making, as well as for accountability. These advances will be based on official reports and take as a source of information the data accumulated annually on children with obesity detected and attended to that are registered in the Child with Malnutrition Tool.