Description
Priority actions include:
Health system
Provide quality ANC, obstetric, newborn and postnatal care services to pregnant women during pregnancy, delivery and postpurtum including refugee population.
Integration of screening for malnutrition among PLW/G during ANC, PNC Delivery and post partum including refugee population.
Provision of nutritious food supplementation to target vulnerable/ undernourished PLW/G including refugee population.
Strengthen linkages for nutrition education through the school curriculum. Mainstreaming nutrition in curriculum reform and development of strategies to support articulation of curriculum content.
Strengthen implementation of school health programs that includes nutrition service delivery incorporating nutrition assessment components in school health.
Provide iron and folic acid supplements to women and adolescents girls during pregnancy.
Enforce prohibition of sexual violations, FGM and child marriages through community level platforms.
Support the education sector to operationalize the school health policy and strategy and revise the school curriculum to allow comprehensive and age-appropriate sexuality
and reproductive health education.
Rollout of social behaviour change communication on reproductive health, nutrition and FGM.
Food System
Promote increased production of nutrient-rich foods by promoting food diversification.
Increase the number of nutrition sensitive agriculture technologies and innovations such as kitchen gardens and livestock.
To increase production of adequately fortified salt, maize flour and wheat flour, including blended flours and vegetable oil and fats as well as upscale programs to promote their consumption.
Support operationalization of standards and guidelines for institutional feeding, including school meals.
Promote biofortification of potential food crops using conventional breeding techniques as part of food security and resilience agricultural strategies to improve diets of vulnerable rural communities that rely heavily on few staples.
Social Protection
Advocate for alignment of nutrition and social protection policies, strategies and programs to leverage social protection systems.
Provide pregnant adolescent girls an opportunity to re-enter school after delivery and referral for sexual reproductive health.
Support development and implementation of school meals programs that offer support for nutritious meals to ensure intake.
Support the implementation of food/cash supplementation program for pregnant and adolescents girls from vulnerable households.
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) |
Impact >
Undernutrition
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Measurement
| Key indicator | Prevalence of low birth weight |
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| Value | Measurement date | |
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| Baseline | 8% | 2014 |
| Target | 5% |
