Commitment

Reduce the prevalence of wasting in children under 5 from 7 % to 3% by 2030

Government / Ethiopia

July 2021 — June 2031

Description

Food and nutrition 10 years costed plan is endorsed and its implementation is started in all regions and city administrations. The food and nutrition coordination platforms will be strengthened in the regions and city administrations by establishing a coordination and governing structures. The implementation will be accelerated by Seqota Declaration expansion phase implementation in 240 woredas which will be expanded to additional 500 woredas during the ten years period.• Strengthening nutrition actions in to existing health sector transformation plan-IIo Governance and Leadership: Implement nutrition actions in health services as part of health sector transformation plan. Integrate nutrition implementation in Woreda transformation agenda.o Health work force: Train health workers integrated delivery of nutrition services in life cycle approach. Ensure health workers receive integrated supportive supervision and mentorship that builds their capacity to deliver quality nutrition services.o Health Service Delivery:- Increase the effective coverage of essential nutrition services (promotion of breast feeding and complimentary feeding, GMP, VAS, IFA, MMS, community based management of Acute malnutrition, etc) through the health system with special focus on vulnerable groups.- Integrate and implement nutrition related actions into nutrition smart health services (family planning, EPI, ANC, PNC, etc)o Access to Nutrition Commodities: Improve the availability, affordability, accessibility and proper administration nutrition commodities.o Nutrition/Health Information system: Inclusion of major indicators in routine health information system, strengthen and expand digital nutrition information system (UNISE)o Nutrition Financing: Allocate domestic finance for nutrition actions. Implement resource allocation and expenditure tracking at national and subnational levels

In addition, there is a 10 year national development of the country where nutrition is the key indicator in the national development proxy indicators monitored so closely.

Overarching commitment (for commitments submitted pre-2025)

Title

FNS implementation-SD Expansion Scale up

Description

Accelerating FNS implementation with Seqota Declaration Expansion & Scale up - is

the government of Ethiopia's committed to reduce all forms of malnutrition in 2030 through effective implementation of National Food and Nutrition Strategy & Seqota Declaration expansion & scale up through multi-sectoral nutrition specific, nutrition sensitive and infrastructure pathways

GNR assessment

Verification status
Verified
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SMARTness index
High
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Details

Global nutrition target(s)
Anaemia
Low birth weight
Exclusive breastfeeding
Childhood stunting
Childhood wasting
Childhood overweight
Nutrition Action Classification(s)
Impact > Undernutrition
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Linked event(s)
  • 2021 Tokyo N4G Summit
  • 2021 UN Food Systems Summit
N4G Summit theme(s)
  • Food
  • Health
  • Resilience
  • Data
  • Financing

Measurement

Key indicator Prevalence of wasted children under 5 years of age
Value Measurement date
Baseline 7% 2019
Target 3% June 2031

Progress

Status:
Off Course
Why this status?
The reported progress indicates that the expected level thus far had not yet been achieved and is not expected to be achieved by the end date, but as the end date is not yet reached, it could be still be possible to reach and maintain the target level.
Value Measurement date
Progress report 11% July 2021

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