Commitment

Ensure national UHC plans that integrate nutrition are aligned with national nutrition specific and nutrition sensitive health intervention are part of a 'health in all policy.

Government / Zambia

January 2022 — December 2030

Description

Ensure that essential, quality-assured, nutrition-related health products (therapeutic supplies, anthropometric equipment and minerals and vitamin supplements) are available, accessible and properly administered through the health system, including through national essential medicines lists.

Overarching commitment (for commitments submitted pre-2025)

Title

Reduce undernutrition by 35% by 2030.

Description

Accelerate scale-up of Scaling Up Nutrition’s First 1,000 Most Critical Days Programme from 42 districts to 116 districts by 2030.

This is expected to reduce prevalence of stunting, wasting, low birth weight and anaemia in children under 5 years of age.

GNR assessment

Verification status
Unverified
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SMARTness index

Details

Global nutrition target(s)
Childhood overweight
Adult obesity
Salt/sodium intake
Anaemia
Low birth weight
Exclusive breastfeeding
Childhood stunting
Childhood wasting
Nutrition Action Classification(s)
Enabling > Financial
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Linked event(s)
  • 2021 Tokyo N4G Summit
  • 2021 UN Food Systems Summit
N4G Summit theme(s)
  • Food systems
  • Health
  • Resilience
  • Data
  • Financing

Measurement

Key indicator Percentage increase in allocation for nutrition under universal health coverage
Value Measurement date
Baseline 0% 2021
Target 20% December 2030

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