Description
The Government of Ethiopia commits to Reduce the prevalence of low birth weight from 5.4% to 3% by 2030 by doing the following actions through a multisectoral coordination and partnership with the UN, CSOs, Donors, Academia and private sector;-
i. Government
Action 1: Increasing access to tailored facility- and community-based prenatal nutrition counseling and education services
Action 2: Strengthening prenatal nutrition and mental health
Action 3: Harnessing digital health technologies in rendering prenatal nutrition awareness creation
Action 4: Increasing the quality of prenatal nutrition and mental health services
Action 5: Increasing access to quality birth spacing and preconception nutrition services
Action 6: Enhancing the coverage of prenatal micronutrient supplementation
Action 7: Strengthening implementation of WASH intervention
Civil society organizations
Action 1: Promote maternal nutrition interventions at community level
Action 2: Implement adolescent nutrition and support WIFAS, IFA supplementation and multiple micronutrient supplementations.
Action 3: Support diversified food production and consumption promotion during pregnancy.
iii. UN
Action 1: Supporting implementation of birth spacing and preconception nutrition services
Action 2: Fostering implementation of prenatal nutrition counseling, screening, and care
Action 3: Supporting implementation of prenatal micronutrient supplementation programs
Action 4: Fostering community engagement
Action 5: Promoting the integration of digital health technologies with prenatal nutrition service delivery
iv. Donors
Action 1: Enhancing funding allocation to support national efforts intended to increase access to quality prenatal nutrition and mental health services
Action 2: Supporting the prenatal nutrition service quality improvement initiatives
Action 3: Promoting the integration of digital health technologies with prenatal nutrition service delivery.
v. Academia
Action 1: Enhancing evidence generation support
Action 2: Enhancing evidence generation on the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of interventions and implementation strategies
Action 3: Strengthen epidemiological evaluations to monitor the burden and trends of prenatal under-nutrition
Action 4: Evaluating the socio-cultural responsiveness and integration of prenatal nutrition and mental health interventions and implementation strategies
Action 5: Further scrutiny of the existing prenatal nutrition capacity building supports to the health care providers
Action 6: Evaluation of community engagement and involvement strategies
vi. Private sectors
Action 1: Improving timely initiation and access to antenatal care services
Action 2: Increasing access to prenatal nutrition and mental health services
Action3: Enhancing the coverage of prenatal micronutrient supplementation
Action 4: Strengthening the production and access to fortified food
vii. Community
Action 1: Improving community engagement in prenatal nutrition service planning and delivery, i.e., women, community based volunteer health development agents.
GNR assessment
| Verification status |
Partially verified
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| SMARTness index |
High
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Details
| Target population characteristic |
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| Global nutrition target(s) |
Low birth weight
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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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| Measurement plan | Use data collected by others |
| Value | Measurement date | |
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| Baseline | 5.4% | December 2024 |
| Target | 3% | December 2030 |
