Reduce the prevalence of stunting in children under 5 from 37% to 13% by 2030
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.
Overarching commitment (for commitments submitted pre-2025)
Title
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
| Target population characteristic |
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| Global nutrition target(s) |
Childhood overweight
Anaemia
Low birth weight
Exclusive breastfeeding
Childhood stunting
Childhood wasting
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Impact >
Undernutrition
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Measurement
| Key indicator | Prevalence of stunting in children under 5 years of age |
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| Measurement plan | Collect own data |
| Value | Measurement date | |
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| Baseline | 37% | 2019 |
| Target | 13% | June 2031 |
Progress
| Value | Measurement date | Status | |
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| Progress report | 39% | July 2021 |
Off Course
The reported progress indicates that the expected level thus far had not yet been achieved and is not expected to be achieved by the end date, but as the end date is not yet reached, it could be still be possible to reach and maintain the target level.
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