Reduce the prevalence of stunting among children 0-59 months from 33.1% in 2020 to 10% in 2030.

1. Health system strengthening:

• Health and nutrition service: Reinforce growth monitoring, promotion and maternal infant and young child nutrition counselling; strengthen the nutrition-sensitive reproductive health services to improve maternal and child nutrition and to prevent overweight/obesity; provide parents with an avenue to learn about early stimulation of infants, child care practices, preparation of nutritious meals from locally available foods and responsive feeding; enable the health and nutrition system to adapt to increasing incidences of diet-related non-communicable diseases in view of a life-course approach; regulate the marketing of unhealthy foods; and develop/update tools and implement behaviour change communication activities on healthy diets based on the programme evaluation and research.

• Health and nutrition workforce: Train nutritionists at secondary schools and universities to have a pool of qualified nutritionists, and place them at all levels of health facilities and institutions working on nutrition.

• Information system: Strengthen the use of data and feedback (gaps and challenges) to inform the evidence-based programming (targeted groups, geographic coverage and financial needs), and digitise community registration and reporting systems.

• Governance and leadership: Reinforce multisector coordination to mainstream nutrition through annual single action plans, district plans to eliminate malnutrition and the implementation of all nutrition interventions.

• Financing: Carry out a costing exercise to project the nutrition investments necessary to achieve the country's targets through multisectoral interventions, and increase the budget for the recruitment of more nutritionists at health facilities, nutritionist payments and incentives for community health workers.

2. Food system strengthening:

• Ensure that the nutrition-sensitive agricultural mainstreaming guidelines are appropriately utilised by agricultural promoters, community health workers and early childhood development (ECD) care-givers.

• Strengthen the food value chains to be capable of supplying nutritious food products.

• Identify and roll out agricultural innovations and research aligned with the national nutrition priorities.

• Scale up the distribution of small livestock, expand fisheries and increase poultry for egg production to complement the existing Girinka programme.

• Work with regulatory authorities to facilitate access, streamline milk distribution from farm to table and enforce milk safety and quality standards.

• Establish a Scaling Up Nutrition business network to engage private players in the food industry on the regulation of food in terms of nutritional quality and safety.

• Disseminate the national food-based dietary guideline, and integrate it into new and existing programmes that promote behaviour change for nutrition.