Commitment
integrate nutrition training on the life course, with a focus on breastfeeding and infant and young child feeding, in the curricula of medicine and nursing faculties and nursing schools and institutes
Description
There will be coordination with the Ministry of Higher Education to implement standardised nutrition training within academic curricula as pre-service training.
Overarching commitment (for commitments submitted pre-2025)
Title
Reduce stunting prevalence to 10%
Description
The Egyptian Ministry of Health and Population commits to reducing the prevalence of stunting from 21% to less than 10% among the country’s 12.7 million children under 5 years of age by 31 December 2030. This will be achieved by accelerating scale-up of the implementation of high-impact nutrition-specific and nutrition-sensitive interventions. Progress will be assessed through the Egyptian Family Health Issues Survey, to be implemented every four years.
GNR assessment
| Verification status |
Unverified
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| SMARTness index |
Lower moderate
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Details
| Global nutrition target(s) |
Childhood stunting
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| Nutrition Action Classification(s) |
Enabling >
Operational
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Measurement
| Key indicator | Nutrition training on the life course, with a focus on breastfeeding and infant and young child feeding, integrated in the curricula of medicine and nursing faculties and nursing schools and institutes |
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| Value | Measurement date | |
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| Baseline | No | 2021 |
| Target | Yes | December 2022 |
