Description
Priority actions include:
Health System
• Provide quality antenatal care (ANC), obstetric, newborn and postnatal care (PNC) services to pregnant women (including refugee populations) during pregnancy, delivery and the postpartum period.
• Integrate screening for malnutrition among pregnant and lactating women and girls (PLW/G), including refugee population, during ANC, PNC and postpartum care.
• Provision of nutritious food supplementation to target vulnerable or undernourished PLW/G, including refugee populations.
• Strengthen linkages for nutrition education through the school curriculum. Mainstreamnutrition in curriculum reform and develop strategies to support articulation of curriculum content.
• Strengthen implementation of school health programmes that includes nutrition service delivery incorporating nutrition assessment components in school health.
• Provide iron and folic acid supplements to women and adolescent girls during pregnancy.
• Enforce prohibition of sexual violations, female genital mutilation (FGM) and child marriages through community-level platforms.
• Support the education sector to operationalise the school health policy and strategy and revise the school curriculum to allow comprehensive and age-appropriate sexual 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 oils and fats as well as scale up programmes to promote their consumption.
• Support operationalisation 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 agricultural resilience strategies to improve the diets of vulnerable rural communities that rely heavily on a few staples.
Social Protection
• Advocate for alignment of nutrition and social protection policies, strategies and programmes to leverage social protection systems.
• Provide pregnant adolescent girls an opportunity to re-enter school after delivery and provide referrals for sexual and reproductive health services.
• Support development and implementation of school meals programmes that offer support for nutritious meals to ensure intake.
• Support the implementation of food/cash supplementation programmes 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 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
| Verification status |
Unverified
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| SMARTness index |
Upper moderate
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Details
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| Global nutrition target(s) |
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 low birth weight |
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| Measurement plan | Collect own data |
| Value | Measurement date | |
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| Baseline | 8% | 2014 |
| Target | 5% | December 2025 |
