Description
The 10-year costed plan on food and nutrition has been endorsed and its implementation started in all regions and city administrations. Food and nutrition coordination platforms will be strengthened in the regions and city administrations by establishing coordination and governing structures. Implementation of the plan will be accelerated by implementation of the Seqota Declaration (SD) expansion phase in 240 woredas, which will be expanded to an additional 500 woredas during the 10-year period.
Activities will include strengthening nutrition actions in the existing Health Sector Transformation Plan II, as follows:
• Governance and leadership:
o Implementing nutrition actions in health services as part of the Health Sector Transformation Plan.
o Integrating nutrition implementation into the woreda transformation agenda.
• Health workforce:
o Training health workers on integrated delivery of nutrition services in the life cycle approach.
o Ensuring health workers receive integrated supportive supervision and mentorship that build their capacity to deliver quality nutrition services.
• Health service delivery:
o Increasing the effective coverage of essential nutrition services (promotion of breastfeeding and complementary feeding, growth monitoring and promotion, vitamin A supplementation, iron and folic acid supplementation, multiple micronutrient supplementation, community-based management of acute malnutrition, etc.) through the health system, with special focus on vulnerable groups.
o Integrating and implementing nutrition-related actions into nutrition-smart health services (family planning, Expanded Programme on Immunization, antenatal care, postnatal care, etc.).
• Access to nutrition commodities: Improving the availability, affordability, accessibility and proper administration of nutrition commodities.
• Nutrition/health Information system:
o Including major indicators in the routine health information system.
o Strengthening and expanding the digital nutrition information system (Unified Nutrition Information System for Ethiopia, or UNISE).
• Nutrition financing:
o Allocating national finances for nutrition actions.
o Implementing resource allocation and expenditure tracking at national and subnational levels.
Overarching commitment (for commitments submitted pre-2025)
Title
Food and Nutrition Strategy (FNS) implementation – SD expansion and scale-up
Description
Accelerating implementation of the FNS with the SD expansion and scale-up: The government of Ethiopia is committed to reducing all forms of malnutrition by 2030 through effective implementation of the national FNS and the SD expansion and scale-up through multisectoral nutrition-specific, nutrition-sensitive and infrastructure pathways.
GNR assessment
| Verification status |
Verified
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| SMARTness index |
High
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Details
| Global nutrition target(s) |
Childhood overweight
Anaemia
Low birth weight
Exclusive breastfeeding
Childhood stunting
Childhood wasting
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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 | Collect own data |
| Value | Measurement date | |
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| Baseline | 13% | 2019 |
| Target | 3% | June 2031 |
Progress
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| Progress report |
Progress not able to be assessed
Despite the commitment maker’s active participation in the process, they were unable to provide the required information about the baseline data or the progress indicator’s updated (latest) level or status.
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