Description
The Ethiopia government commits to reduce the prevalence of low birth weight from 5.4% to 3% by 2030 by performing the following actions through multisectoral coordination and partnership with the UN, civil society organisations, donors, academia and the private sector.
• Government
Action 1: Increase access to tailored facility- and community-based prenatal nutrition counselling and education services.
Action 2: Strengthen prenatal nutrition and mental health.
Action 3: Harness digital health technologies in rendering prenatal nutrition awareness creation.
Action 4: Increase the quality of prenatal nutrition and mental health services.
Action 5: Increase access to quality birth spacing and preconception nutrition services.
Action 6: Enhance the coverage of prenatal micronutrient supplementation.
Action 7: Strengthen the implementation of water, sanitation and hygiene interventions.
• Civil society organisations
Action 1: Promote maternal nutrition interventions at the community level.
Action 2: Implement adolescent nutrition and support weekly iron and folic acid (IFA) supplementation, IFA supplementation and multiple micronutrient supplementation.
Action 3: Support diversified food production and consumption promotion during pregnancy.
• UN
Action 1: Support implementation of birth spacing and preconception nutrition services.
Action 2: Foster implementation of prenatal nutrition counselling, screening and care.
Action 3: Support implementation of prenatal micronutrient supplementation programmes.
Action 4: Foster community engagement.
Action 5: Promote the integration of digital health technologies with prenatal nutrition service delivery.
• Donors
Action 1: Enhance funding allocation to support national efforts intended to increase access to quality prenatal nutrition and mental health services.
Action 2: Support prenatal nutrition service quality improvement initiatives.
Action 3: Promote the integration of digital health technologies with prenatal nutrition service delivery.
• Academia
Action 1: Enhance evidence generation support.
Action 2: Enhance evidence generation on the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of interventions and implementation strategies.
Action 3: Strengthen epidemiological evaluations to monitor the burden and trends of prenatal undernutrition.
Action 4: Evaluate the sociocultural responsiveness and integration of prenatal nutrition and mental health interventions and implementation strategies.
Action 5: Scrutinse further the existing prenatal nutrition capacity-building support to healthcare providers.
Action 6: Evaluate community engagement and involvement strategies.
• Private sector
Action 1: Improve timely initiation and access to antenatal care services.
Action 2: Increase access to prenatal nutrition and mental health services.
Action3: Enhance the coverage of prenatal micronutrient supplementation.
Action 4: Strengthen the production of and access to fortified food.
• Community
Action 1: Improve community engagement in prenatal nutrition service planning and delivery (e.g., women, community-based volunteer health development agents).
GNR assessment
| Verification status |
Verified
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| SMARTness index |
High
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Details
| Target population characteristic |
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| Global nutrition target(s) |
Low birth weight
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| Nutrition Action Classification(s) |
Impact >
Undernutrition
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Measurement
| Key indicator | Prevalence of low birth weight |
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| Measurement plan | Use data collected by others |
| Value | Measurement date | |
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| Baseline | 5.4% | December 2024 |
| Target | 3% | December 2030 |
