By 2025, the Government of Ghana will reduce the prevalence of anaemia in women of reproductive age from 21% in 2018 to 14%
Description
This commitment will be fulfilled through:
• Increasing the effective coverage of essential nutrition services, including vitamin A supplementation in children aged 12–59 months from 35.3% to 80.0%, iron and folic acid (IFA)/multiple micronutrient supplementation in pregnant women from 61% to 80%, and IFA supplementation in adolescent girls from 27% to 80%.
• Investing in and strengthening the capacities of service providers at all levels to deliver maternal nutrition care services during pregnancy, breastfeeding and complementary feeding counselling, and nutrition-friendly school initiatives and ensuring that they receive integrated, supportive supervision and mentoring that build capacity to deliver these interventions.
• Ensuring that the National Health Insurance Scheme integrates nutrition interventions, including micronutrition supplementation of women of reproductive age and management of acute malnutrition.
• Ensuring that essential, quality-assured nutrition commodities for the prevention and treatment of malnutrition are included in the national essential medicines lists and are available, affordable, accessible and properly administered through the health system, including through communities and school platforms.
• Ensuring that national health information systems include indicators to track the coverage and quality of essential nutrition actions.
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) |
Raised blood pressure
Anaemia
Low birth weight
Exclusive breastfeeding
Childhood stunting
Childhood wasting
Childhood overweight
Adult obesity
Adult diabetes
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| Nutrition Action Classification(s) |
Impact >
Undernutrition
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Measurement
| Key indicator | Prevalence of anaemia in women of reproductive age |
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| Value | Measurement date | |
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| Baseline | 21% | 2018 |
| Target | 14% | December 2025 |
