improve child health by achieving 100% universal health coverage by 2025
Description
Priority actions:
Health system
Strengthen the design and delivery of integrated/ comprehensive maternal, neonatal, child health service packages in health facilities (EMONC, IMCI) and communities (ICCM, PHC) including through integrated outreaches and functional community health units.
Undertake health education through community health volunteers and other community structures, social media, print media and other forums for the increased utilization of Maternal, Neonatal and Child Health (MNCH) services among vulnerable populations.
Strengthen and enhance planning, budgeting and coordination of essential Maternal, Neonatal and Child Health (MNCH) services at national and county levels.
Initiate or strengthen mental health initiatives among caregivers including promoting wellbeing and social support.
Strengthen the supply chain for essential newborn and child health commodities.
Disease surveillance, epidemic preparedness and response including promotion of utilization of essential services during the COVID 19 pandemic.
High impact nutrition interventions including breastfeeding and complementary feeding promotion and counselling, micronutrient supplementation (vitamin A
supplementation, micronutrient powders), deworming prophylaxis, nutrition care and support including during emergencies.
Growth monitoring and promotion.
Food system
Promote safe food production among pastoralists, farmers and fisherfolks including safe use of agro-chemicals during food production, proper storage and handling
to control incidents of food-related disease outbreaks and contamination.
Support development, adoption and implementation of appropriate food safety standards along the value chains including food production, processing, storage,
distribution and enforce implementation.
Enhance the regulatory capacity of the National and County institutions involved in product development, standards establishment and monitoring of quality.
WASH
Encourage, facilitate and promote sanitation solutions for households towards eliminating open defecation and improving sanitation behaviour through market based solutions and self support approaches.
Improve access to and use of safe and sufficient drinking water at household and institutional level (treatment, storage).
Integrate handwashing message and hygiene during health promotion sessions.
Promote joint resource mobilization for integrated WASH and nutrition activities.
Overarching commitment (for commitments submitted pre-2025)
Title
Maintain child wasting at less than 4%
Description
Kenya is one of the front runner countries in adoption and customization of the Global Action Plan on child wasting. The multisectoral country action plan on child wasting is aligned to the GAP and 4 outcomes along the health, food, social protection and WASH systems namely: (i) Reduce low birth weight by improving maternal nutrition, (ii) Improved child health by improving access to primary healthcare, WASH services and enhanced food safety, (iii) Improved Infant and Young Child Feeding by promoting optimal breastfeeding practices and complementary feeding, and (iv) Improved treatment of wasting among children, pregnant and lactating women and people living with HIV by strengthening health systems and integrating treatment into routine primary health services.
Details on the specific interventions can be accessed on https://www.childwasting.org/
GNR assessment
| Verification status |
Unverified
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| SMARTness index |
Upper moderate
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Details
| Global nutrition target(s) |
Anaemia
Low birth weight
Exclusive breastfeeding
Childhood stunting
Childhood wasting
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| Nutrition Action Classification(s) |
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Nutrition care services
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Measurement
| Key indicator | Percent of children under five receiving two doses of vitamin A supplemtn |
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| Value | Measurement date | |
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| Baseline | 82% | 2020 |
| Target | 85% |
