Commitment
Establish and expand youth coordination on nutrition specific engagements, by designing a national nutritional youth coordination platform
Description
As outlined in the Kenya Scaling Up Nutrition (SUN) Strategy 2021–2025, institutionalise a SUN youth chapter, design the roadmap and coordination of the chapter and advocate for young people's participation in SUN-related engagement. Expand the chapter to regional blocks in Kenya.
Overarching commitment (for commitments submitted pre-2025)
Title
Engaging youth on nutrition
Description
By 2025, establish/institutionalise and strengthen young people's participation in nutrition through the development of structures, coordination mechanisms, inclusivity support for the implementation of the SUN Movement Strategy (2021–2025) Kenya Chapter and advocacy for the prioritisation of nutrition as a critical area in universal health coverage.
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) |
Exclusive breastfeeding
Childhood stunting
Adult obesity
Adult diabetes
Raised blood pressure
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| Nutrition Action Classification(s) |
Enabling >
Leadership and governance
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Measurement
| Key indicator | SUN Youth Network launched; terms adopted by partners (expressed as a percentage that reflects performance and tracks progress) |
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| Measurement plan | Collect own data |
| Value | Measurement date | |
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| Baseline | 10% | 2021 |
| Target | 20% | December 2022 |
