Reduce the prevalence of stunting among children 0-59 months from 33.1% in 2020 to 10% in 2030.
Description
1.Health system strengthening 1.1 Health and nutrition service Reinforce the growth monitoring and 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 in order to adapt to an increasing incidences of diet related non-communicable diseases in view of life course approach Regulate the marketing of unhealthy foods Develop/update tools and implement behaviour change communication activities on healthy diets based on the program evaluation and researches
1.2 Health and nutrition workforce Train nutritionists at secondary schools and universities in order to have a pool of qualified nutritionists and place them at all levels of health facilities and institutions working on nutrition
1.3 Information system Strengthen the use of data and feedback (gaps and challenges) to inform the evidence-based programming (target groups, geographic coverage and financial needs) Digitalize community registration and reporting systems
1.4 Governance and leadership Reinforce the multi-sector coordination to mainstream nutrition through annual single action plans, District Plans to Eliminate Malnutrition and the implementation of all nutrition interventions
1.5 Financing Carry out costing exercise to project the nutrition investments necessary to achieve countrys targets through multi-sectoral interventions Increase the budget for the recruitment of more nutritionists at health facilities and their payment, and for the incentives for community health workers
2. Food system strengthening Ensure that the nutrition-sensitive agriculture mainstreaming guidelines are appropriately utilized by agricultural promoters, community health workers and ECD caregivers Strengthen the food value chains, capable of supplying nutritious foods 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 of egg production to complement the existing Girinka program Work with regulatory authorities to facilitate access, streamline milk distribution from farm to table and enforce milk safety and quality standards Establish a SUN Business Network to engage private players in the food industry on regulation of food in terms of nutritional quality and safety Disseminate the national food-based dietary guideline and integrate into new and existing programs that promote behaviour change for nutrition.
Overarching commitment (for commitments submitted pre-2025)
Title
Reduce stunting, anemia and overweight.
Description
1. Reduce the prevalence of stunting among children 0-59 months from 33.1% in 2020 to 10% in 2030
2. Reduce the prevalence of anemia among children 6-59 months, adolescent girls, and pregnant women from 36.6%, 14.7% and 24.5% in 2020 to 20%, 10% and 15% in 2030, respectively
3. Increase the domestic resource allocation for nutrition sensitive and specific intervention from RWF 41 billion (USD 41 million) in 2020/21 to RWF 67 billion (USD 67 million) in 2030.
The Government of Rwanda has been investing funds to reduce malnutrition through several initiatives like Girinka, community-based nutrition programs, elevating ECD and food security And recently, the government of Rwanda introduced Nutrition budget tagging strategy across all key
sectors affecting Nutrition. This commitment shows that the countrys budget allocation and resources mobilization channelled into nutrition has been growing over the years and the country commits to increase budget allocation to the nutrition cause.
GNR assessment
Verification status |
Verified
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SMARTness index |
High
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Details
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 stunting among children under five |
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Value | Measurement date | |
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Baseline | 33.1% | 2020 |
Target | 19% |