Increase percentage of women of reproductive age who receive minimum dietary diversity (Baseline: 50% in 2016; Target: 80%)

Impact commitment

The government of Nepal (GoN) commits to accelerating nutrition progress towards national, World Health Assembly and Sustainable Development Goal targets for all forms of malnutrition, reducing preventable deaths associated with undernutrition in the next nine years (from 1 January 2022 to 31 December 2030). This will be achieved by improving nutrition governance and accountability, creating an enabling policy environment for nutrition, ensuring adequate resources, enforcing acts such as effective implementation of the Mother’s Milk Substitutes (Control of Sale and Distribution) Act, implementing gender-responsive/gender-resilient multisectoral nutrition-specific/nutrition-sensitive actions, focusing on equity and the quality of nutrition services, integrating nutrition into universal health coverage and developing evidence-based policies and programmes. Progress will be assessed using the National Nutrition Survey, conducted every three to five years. The GoN has estimated that approximately 97,032 million Nepalese rupees are required to cover associated costs, which will be partially supported by development partners, civil society and the private sector.