Increase the number of nutrition friendly institutions
Description
The goals of the government of Nepal (GoN) for this intervention are to:
1. Strengthen the capacity of Nutrition and Food Security Steering Committees, Nutrition Technical Committees and nutrition networks.
2. Strengthen the system competency for scaling up and implementing integrated nutrition interventions, focusing on the life course (children, adolescents, pregnant and lactating women, adults and elderly people).
3. Review the existing human resources for nutrition interventions and designate additional human resources, as per the requirement.
4. Ensure a regular and adequate supply of commodities/equipment.
5. Align, harmonise and link actions across sectors and stakeholders.
6. Strengthen integration of nutrition in universal health coverage.
7. Establish nutrition-friendly institutions with adequate infrastructure, trained human resources on nutrition, equipment and information to deliver high-quality services.
8. Support the establishment of nutrition-sensitive fair price shops.
9. Strengthen the mechanism to improve food quality, including safety of foods across the food value chain, testing of food quality and reduction in food wastage.
10. Design and implement innovative nutrition and food security programmes that focus on marginalised or vulnerable groups, gender equality and social inclusion.
11. Run nutrition interventions/programmes by adopting an integrated one-door government-led implementation approach.
Overarching commitment (for commitments submitted pre-2025)
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Operational commitment
Description
The GoN commits to strengthening system and individual capacities to deliver high-quality nutrition services that ensure universal coverage and accelerate nutrition progress towards national, World Health Assembly and Sustainable Development Goal targets on all forms of malnutrition within the next nine years (from 1 January 2022 to 31 December 2030). This will be achieved by enhancing the system, institution and human resource capacities for scaling up integrated nutrition programmes and ensuring the provision of adequate nutrition commodities to deliver high-quality nutrition services equitably. Progress will be assessed using the National Nutrition Surveys, which are conducted every three to five years, and regular monitoring of programmes. The GoN has estimated that approximately 91,829 million Nepalese rupees are required over the next nine years to cover associated costs for effective delivery of nutrition services, and the costs will be partially supported by development partners and civil society organisations.
GNR assessment
| Verification status |
Verified
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| SMARTness index |
High
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Details
| Target population characteristic |
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| Global nutrition target(s) |
Low birth weight
Exclusive breastfeeding
Childhood stunting
Childhood wasting
Childhood overweight
Adult obesity
Salt/sodium intake
Anaemia
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| Nutrition Action Classification(s) |
Enabling >
Operational
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Measurement
| Key indicator | Number of functional nutrition-friendly institutions |
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| Measurement plan | Collect own data |
| Value | Measurement date | |
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| Baseline | 0 Institutions | 2021 |
| Target | 3,765 Institutions | December 2030 |
