Reduce the prevalence of anemia among children 6-59 months from 36.6% in 2020 to 20% in 2030
Description
1. Health system strengthening through micronutrient supplementation in children, pregnant women and adolescent girls:
• Provide micronutrient powders to children 6 to 23 months of age through growth-monitoring and nutrition-counselling sessions.
• Supplement iron and folic acid (IFA) for adolescent girls through health centre services and by community health workers.
• Supplement IFA for pregnant women in the first trimester of pregnancy by enhancing antenatal contacts and the supply chain.
• Implement social and behaviour change communication adapted to the challenges and barriers of the specific behaviours based on the situation analysis.
2. Food system strengthening through a food-based approach:
• Increase the availability and accessibility of animal-sourced foods in collaboration with Rwanda's Ministry of Agriculture and Animal Resources.
• Provide capacity-building to rural households and the private sector in livestock production, value chain and market analysis (purchase and sales) and business management.
• Scale up the provision of small livestock to targeted households (ie, those in the poorest wealth categories of Rwanda’s wealth classification system – Ubudehe 1 and 2).
• Promote the production, access and consumption of biofortified crop varieties to vulnerable households.
• Encourage the growing and consumption of nutrition-rich local fruits and vegetables.
• Educate agricultural promoters on nutrition-sensitive agriculture and livestock-rearing techniques.
• Increase the awareness of the importance of dietary diversity, including the consumption of animal-sourced foods.
• Increase the purchasing power of households by promoting savings and lending schemes, developing and supporting small-scale income-generating activities and providing linkages to financial institutions.
3. Food system strengthening through food/home fortification:
• Promote the mass fortification of staples and condiments (maize flour, wheat flour, oil, sugar and salt).
• Develop and implement regulations on the fortification of foods.
• Develop iron-fortified foods through research in collaboration with research institutions, academia and the private sector.
• Promote fortified foods in school feeding programmes (maize and rice fortification).
Overarching commitment (for commitments submitted pre-2025)
Title
Reduce stunting, anaemia and overweight.
Description
1. Reduce the prevalence of stunting among children 0 to 59 months of age from 33.1% in 2020 to 10.0% by 2030.
2. Reduce the prevalence of anaemia among children 6 to 59 months of age, adolescent girls and pregnant women from 36.6%, 14.7% and 24.5% in 2020 to 20.0%, 10.0% and 15.0% by 2030, respectively.
3. Increase the national resource allocation for nutrition-sensitive and nutrition-specific interventions from FRw41 billion (US$41 million) in 2020/21 to FRw67 billion (US$67 million) by 2030.
The government of Rwanda has been investing funds to reduce malnutrition through several initiatives such as Girinka and community-based nutrition programmes, elevating early childhood development and food security. Recently, the government introduced a nutrition budget tagging strategy across all key sectors affecting nutrition. This commitment shows that the country's budget allocation and resource mobilisation channelled into nutrition have been growing over the years, and the country commits to increasing budget allocation to the nutrition cause.
GNR assessment
| Verification status |
Verified
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| SMARTness index |
High
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Details
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| Global nutrition target(s) |
Anaemia
Childhood stunting
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| Nutrition Action Classification(s) |
Impact >
Undernutrition
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Measurement
| Key indicator | Prevalence of anaemia among children 6 to 59 months of age |
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| Measurement plan | Use data collected by others |
| Value | Measurement date | |
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| Baseline | 36.6% | 2020 |
| Target | 20% | June 2030 |
