By 2025, the Government of Ghana will increase the percentage of early initiation of breastfeeding within 1 hour from 52% in 2017 to 80%, led by the Ministries of Health; and Gender, Children and Social Protection.
Description
• By 2025, the government of Ghana – led by the Ministry of Health, Ministry of Gender, Children and Social Protection, and Ministry of Finance – will review, monitor and enforce a legislation covering all provisions of the International Code of Marketing of Breast-milk Substitutes and subsequent World Health Assembly resolutions.
• By 2025, the government of Ghana – led by the Ministry of Finance, Ministry of Health, Ministry of Gender, Children and Social Protection, and Ministry of Labour, Jobs and Employment Relations – will scale up the Baby-Friendly Hospital Initiative and family-friendly policies as well as create an enabling environment to support exclusive breastfeeding.
Overarching commitment (for commitments submitted pre-2025)
Title
Nutrition for Growth (N4G) commitments
Description
The government of Ghana is pleased to submit its commitments for the N4G Summit 2021. These commitments are in line with national priorities, the N4G Principles for Engagement as well as the three core areas relating to food systems, universal health coverage and resilience. The priority focus with respect to resilience will be on the northern regions, where the more significant impacts of climate change, longer dry seasons and limited irrigation facilities, and low numbers of healthcare professionals have led to a generally higher prevalence of nutrition and health challenges compared to the rest of the country.
Commitments have also been made in relation to the cross-cutting issues of finance and data-driven accountability. Several of the commitments are aligned with the Sustainable Development Goal targets 2.2 and 3.4 and those of the World Health Assembly.
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Superseded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) |
Childhood overweight
Adult obesity
Adult diabetes
Raised blood pressure
Childhood stunting
Childhood wasting
Anaemia
Low birth weight
Exclusive breastfeeding
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| Nutrition Action Classification(s) |
Impact >
Diet
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Measurement
| Key indicator | Prevalence of early initiation of breastfeeding within one hour of birth |
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| Value | Measurement date | |
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| Baseline | 52% | 2017 |
| Target | 80% | December 2025 |
