To provide sufficient financial resources up $120 millions each year.
Description
Overarching commitment (for commitments submitted pre-2025)
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DRC nutrition commitments
Description
1. Impact commitment: By 2030, DRC is committed to reducing the prevalence of chronic malnutrition among children under 5 years of age in DRC, ie, from 42% to 37%.
2. Financial commitment: By 2030, DRC is committed to allocating sufficient financial resources, ie, US$120 million annually, to the nutrition and food security sector to prevent and solve the problem of chronic malnutrition in accordance with the National Multisectoral Nutrition Strategic Plan (2022–2026).
3. Political commitment: By October 2022, DRC is committed to strengthening the coordination of Scaling Up Nutrition (SUN)-DRC to better fulfil the role of the National Coordination of the Multisectoral Nutrition Platform in DRC and establishing a national school feeding policy.
4. Programming commitment: By 2030, DRC is committed to:
• Reducing the prevalence of acute malnutrition to less than 5% in children under 5 years of age.
• Reducing the prevalence of anaemia among women of childbearing age to less than 30% and among children under 5 years of age.
• Reducing the prevalence of non-communicable diseases, such as obesity, diabetes and hypertension, to less than 10%.
• Improving the minimum acceptable diet (MAD) for children aged from 6 to 23 months.
• Increasing the national coverage rate of health interventions by at least 40%.
• Providing high-impact nutrition for the first 1,000 days of an infant's life through community-based nutrition.
5. Sustainable food systems: by 2030, DRC is committed to adopting legislation on mandatory food fortification.
6. Resilience: by 2030, DRC is committed to developing and implementing a national food and nutrition response and resilience plan in the event of an emergency, disaster or epidemic to meet the needs of vulnerable populations.
7. Data: DRC is committed to having a multisectoral nutrition platform (routine digital information system, research data and routine legislative data) in real time to inform decision-making and improve the quality of nutrition services.
GNR assessment
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Details
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| Global nutrition target(s) |
Raised blood pressure
Anaemia
Childhood stunting
Childhood wasting
Childhood overweight
Adult obesity
Adult diabetes
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| Nutrition Action Classification(s) |
Enabling >
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Measurement
| Key indicator | Disbursement |
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| Measurement plan | Collect own data |
| Value | Measurement date | |
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| Baseline | USD 0 | 2021 |
| Target | USD 120,000,000 | December 2030 |
Progress
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Progress not able to be assessed
Despite the commitment maker’s active participation in the process, they were unable to provide the required information about the baseline data or the progress indicator’s updated (latest) level or status.
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