improve child health by achieving 100% universal health coverage by 2025
Description
Priority actions:
Health system
• Strengthen the design and delivery of integrated and comprehensive maternal, neonatal, and child health (MNCH) service packages. These should be available in in health facilities through programmes like emergency obstetric and newborn care (EMONC) or integrated management of childhood illness, and in communities through integrated community case management (ICCM) or primary health care (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 utilisation of MNCH services among vulnerable populations.
• Strengthen and enhance planning, budgeting and coordination of essential MNCH services at national and county levels.
• Initiate or strengthen mental health initiatives among care-givers, including promoting well-being and social support.
•Strengthen the supply chain for essential newborn and child health commodities.
• Support disease surveillance, epidemic preparedness and response, including promoting use of essential services during the Covid-19 pandemic.
•Implement 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.
• Enhance growth monitoring and promotion.
Food system
• Promote safe food production among pastoralists, farmers and fisherfolks including the safe use of agrochemicals 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 and distribution, and enforce their implementation.
• Enhance the regulatory capacity of the national and county institutions involved in product development, standards establishment and quality monitoring.
Water, sanitation and hygiene
• 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 the household and institutional level (better treatment and storage).
• Integrate handwashing messages and hygiene during health promotion sessions.
• Promote joint resource mobilisation for integrated water, sanitation and hygiene and nutrition activities.
Overarching commitment (for commitments submitted pre-2025)
Title
Maintain child wasting at less than 4%
Description
Kenya is one of the frontrunner countries in adopting and customising the Global Action Plan on Child Wasting (GAP). The multisectoral country action plan on child wasting is aligned to the GAP and four outcomes across the health, food, social protection, and water, sanitation and hygiene systems: 1) Reduced low birth weight by improving maternal nutrition; 2) Improved child health by improving access to primary healthcare, water, sanitation and hygiene services, and enhanced food safety; 3) Improved infant and young child feeding by promoting optimal breastfeeding practices and complementary feeding; and 4) 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
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Unverified
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| SMARTness index |
Upper moderate
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Details
| Target population characteristic |
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| 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 | Percentage of children under 5 years of age receiving two doses of vitamin A supplement |
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| Measurement plan | Collect own data |
| Value | Measurement date | |
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| Baseline | 82% | 2020 |
| Target | 85% | December 2025 |
