By 2025, the Government of Ghana will reduce the prevalence of overweight in women aged 18 years and older from 41.0% in 2016 to 17%
Description
Increase the effective coverage of essential nutrition services; vitamin A supplementation in children 12-59months from 35.3% to 80%, IFA/multiple micro-nutrient supplementation in pregnant women from 61% to 80%; and IFA supplementation in adolescent girls from 27% to 80%.
Invest and strengthen capacities of service providers at all levels to deliver maternal nutrition care services during pregnancy, breastfeeding and complementary feeding counselling and nutrition friendly school initiative and that they receive integrated, supportive supervision and mentoring that builds capacity to deliver these interventions
Ensure that NHIS integrate nutrition interventions including micronutrition supplementation of WRA, management of acute malnutrition.
Ensure that essential, quality assured nutrition commodities for 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
Ensure 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 Commitments
Description
The Government of Ghana is pleased to submit its commitments to the Nutrition for Growth Summit 2021 (N4G). 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 health 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 SDG 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Superseded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
| Global nutrition target(s) |
Anaemia
Low birth weight
Exclusive breastfeeding
Childhood stunting
Childhood wasting
Childhood overweight
Adult obesity
Adult diabetes
Raised blood pressure
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Impact >
Obesity and diet-related NCDs
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Measurement
| Key indicator | Prevalence of overweight in women aged 18 years and older |
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| Value | Measurement date | |
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| Baseline | 41% | 2016 |
| Target | 17% |
