Increase proportion of children consuming minimum acceptable diet
Description
Key planned actions include:
• Protecting, promoting and supporting appropriate complementary feeding with continued breastfeeding for children up to 2 years of age.
• Providing micronutrient supplementation (vitamin A) for children aged 6–59 months.
• Monitoring and promoting child growth.
• Supporting appropriate infant feeding practices for HIV-exposed infants.
• Promoting good parenting and nurturing care practices for early child development.
• Providing cash transfers, creating food- and nutrition-related productive assets and providing livelihood support to promote dietary diversity in children.
• Reaching care-givers with factual information and advice on young child feeding and increasing the desirability of nutritious and safe foods.
• Implementing the Tanzania Framework for Improving Child Diets with the aim of increasing the availability and affordability of nutritious foods – including fruits, vegetables, eggs, fish, meat and fortified foods – by incentivising their production, distribution and retailing.
• Strengthening food quality and safety standards.
Overarching commitment (for commitments submitted pre-2025)
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Children consuming minimum acceptable diet
Description
A diverse diet helps to provide children the essential nutrients that they need for growth and development, resulting in reduced risk of stunting, wasting and being underweight. The government of the United Republic of Tanzania, in collaboration with development partners, commits to increase the proportion of children aged 6–23 months who consume a minimum acceptable diet from 30% to 50% by 2026. The National Multisectoral Nutrition Action Plan 2021/22–2025/26 (NMNAP II) outlines key interventions for implementation at a cost of TZS 162.4 million (US$70 605.45). They will be implemented through the health; water, sanitation and hygiene; food security; and community development sectors. They will be monitored under the NMNAP II framework.
GNR assessment
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Unverified
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| SMARTness index |
Upper moderate
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Details
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Impact >
Diet
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Measurement
| Key indicator | Percentage of children (aged 6–23 months) who receive a minimum acceptable diet |
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| Measurement plan | Collect own data |
| Value | Measurement date | |
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| Baseline | 30.3% | 2018 |
| Target | 50% | June 2026 |
