Reduce prevalence of stunting in children under 5 years
Description
The government of Yemen commits to embed nutrition actions into the national universal health coverage (UHC) directions to ensure the accessibility, affordability and availability of an essential service package (ESP). The National Plan of Action will determine responsibilities across all health system components by operationalising an ESP nationwide. This will be achieved through:
• Integrating essential nutrition actions into national health systems for delivery of the UHC plan.
• Increasing the effective coverage of essential nutrition actions through the health system, including infant and young child feeding (IYCF) in all primary healthcare service platforms and in hospital paediatric outpatient department (OPD) services, with a focus on reaching the most vulnerable.
• Scaling up counselling on IYCF services by skilled health care practitioners to at least 50% of relevant platforms for maternal and child care service delivery in health facilities and at community-level (antenatal, perinatal and postpartum, paediatric OPD) contact points.
• Scaling up the coverage of other essential nutrition actions – specifically, exclusive breastfeeding (EBF) for children under 6 months of age, micronutrient powder coverage for children aged 6–23 months, iron and folic acid (IFA) supplementation of pregnant and lactating women, and IFA supplementation of adolescent girls.
• Scaling up the number of trained Community Health and Nutrition Volunteers (CHNVs) to support increased coverage of integrated health and nutrition services.
• Scaling up efforts to promote, protect and support appropriate IYCF practices, including the implementation and expansion of the Baby-Friendly Hospital Initiative and Baby-Friendly Community Initiative.
• Scaling up IYCF corners for pregnant and lactating mothers to breastfeed and complementary feed their children.
• Strengthening monitoring of violations of the International Code of Marketing of Breast‐milk Substitutes.
• Promoting home gardening programmes to produce nutritious foods, including providing seeds and mini-irrigation kits.
• Providing rural households with cash support for small food industries.
• Developing children's recipes for complementary foods.
• Providing cash vouchers to households, targeted at improving dietary consumption of fruits and vegetables at the household level and supporting nutrition in the first 1000 days.
• Providing general food assistance.
Progress will be assessed by the government authorities every two years.
Overarching commitment (for commitments submitted pre-2025)
Title
Nutrition into the essential service package to achieve UHC
Description
By 2030, the government of Yemen commits to embed nutrition actions into the national UHC directions to ensure the accessibility, affordability and availability of an ESP. The National Plan of Action will determine responsibilities across all health system components by operationalising an essential service package nationwide. This will be achieved through:
• Improving IYCF by increasing EBF practices by 30% for infants under 6 months of age.
• Increasing the percentage of children aged 6–23 months who consume a minimum acceptable diet by 20%.
• Integrating essential nutrition actions into Expanded Programme on Immunization platforms.
•Scaling up nutrition interventions for adolescent girls (including iron folate supplementation).
•Scaling up maternal health and nutrition services for pregnant and lactating women (including iron folate supplementation).
• Scaling up community-based health and nutrition interventions through CHNVs.
Progress will be assessed by the government authorities every two years.
GNR assessment
| Verification status |
Superseded
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| SMARTness index |
High
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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
Childhood overweight
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| Nutrition Action Classification(s) |
Impact >
Undernutrition
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Measurement
| Key indicator | Prevalence of stunting in children under 5 years of age |
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| Measurement plan | Collect own data |
| Value | Measurement date | |
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| Baseline | 45% | 2022 |
| Target | 35% | November 2030 |
Progress
| Value | Measurement date | Status | |
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| Progress report | 45% | November 2023 |
Off Course
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.
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