To reduce the prevalence rate of stunting from 42% to 37% by 2030
Description
• The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) will reinforce the application of multisectoral approaches to reduce the stunting burden.
• National coordination will be reinforced in order to involve all ministries sensitive to nutrition.
• Preventive activities will be more focused on the first 1,000 days of the child and on high-impact nutrition interventions.
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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Unverified
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High
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Details
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| Global nutrition target(s) |
Anaemia
Childhood stunting
Childhood wasting
Childhood overweight
Adult obesity
Adult diabetes
Raised blood pressure
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| Nutrition Action Classification(s) |
Impact >
Undernutrition
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Measurement
| Key indicator | Prevalence of stunting among children under 5 years of age |
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| Measurement plan | Use data collected by others |
| Value | Measurement date | |
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| Baseline | 42% | 2018 |
| Target | 37% | November 2030 |
Progress
| Value | Measurement date | Status | |
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| Progress report | 47.9% | September 2023 |
Off Course
The reported progress indicates that the expected level thus far had not yet been achieved and is not expected to be achieved by the end date, but as the end date is not yet reached, it could be still be possible to reach and maintain the target level.
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