Commitment

Increase coverage of nutrition specific and nutrition sensitive interventions from 42 to 116 districts

Government / Zambia

January 2022 — December 2030

Description

Establish district Nutrition Coordination Committees and develop district multisector nutrition action plans for implementation.

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
Find out more
SMARTness index

Details

Target population characteristic
  • Age or life course stage/status
Global nutrition target(s)
Anaemia
Low birth weight
Exclusive breastfeeding
Childhood stunting
Childhood wasting
Childhood overweight
Adult obesity
Salt/sodium intake
Nutrition Action Classification(s)
Impact > Undernutrition
Find out more
Linked event(s)
  • 2021 Tokyo N4G Summit
  • 2021 UN Food Systems Summit
N4G Summit theme(s)
  • Data
  • Financing
  • Food systems
  • Health
  • Resilience

Measurement

Key indicator Prevalence of stunted children
Measurement plan Collect own data
Value Measurement date
Baseline 35% 2018
Target 20% December 2030

Share this commitment